A walk-up taco stand on the Coldwater Canyon corner with a covered patio and a window you order at. It opened as the cheap arm of Hugo's on Santa Monica Boulevard and has outlasted plenty of things around it. Open 9am to 9pm every day, which covers breakfast burritos and a late dinner with the same menu board.

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Casa Vega

0.4 mi · 7 min walk - Sherman Oaks

Rafael Vega opened this on Ventura Boulevard in 1956 and his daughter Christy runs it now. The interior is deliberately dim, with red vinyl booths, Christmas lights and paintings covering the walls, and the bar is the part people mean when they talk about it. The James Beard Foundation named it an America's Classic in 2022. The kitchen does the combination plates the Valley grew up on and the margaritas are the reason the bar is three deep on a Friday.