In California, the cuisine is cosmopolitan (French, Asian, Mexican…) and connected as well (organic and vegetarian).

Breakfast

For breakfast, you can serve a real friendly, generous and varied meal. The menu is much diversified, with a choice of fruit juice, cereal, hash browns (shredded and grilled potatoes), small pancakes, French toast, and of course eggs.

Lunch

In some restaurants the same meals are much more expensive in the evening than at lunch, especially if the frame of the place is nice. In general, there are two or three daily specials and they are displayed at the entrance of the restaurant. If you opt for a special, you will get a bonus for a soup or salad. A good cheap, quick and healthy thing is the salad bars in delis. Remember to enjoy the many sauces (dressings) accompanying salads. Some of the restaurants offer you all you can eat and for a few dollars, you can eat as much as you can.

Brunch

On Saturday and Sunday morning, it is good to get brunch. After sleeping in, it is too late for breakfast but you are too hungry to wait until lunchtime. Thus, many restaurants serve from 10 to 3 pm a brunch, bastardized between breakfast and lunch.

When it comes to meat, beef is top notch in Los Angeles. The hamburger is not the horrible image that is at home. The real hamburger restaurants serve fresh, juicy, tender and soft beef, caught between two slices of good bread.

If you like ice cream, there are thousands of glaciers in Los Angeles. The ice cream is white, soft, creamy, flavored with vanilla, decorated with fruit or caramel. This is called a sundae, and then there are banana splits and malts. The most famous desserts are the carrot cakes, the cheesecakes, but also the chocolate cakes, apple pies, pecan pies, pumpkin pies at the fall and so on.

Finally, California is multicultural, and this means there are all kinds of cuisines, including Japanese (with the popularity of sushi) and, of course, Mexican and Tex-Mex.

United States have a very prohibitive policy of alcohol. They usually ask you for your passport or identity document if you want to buy a single beer or a bottle of wine at the supermarket, in order to see whether you are over 21.

This is a surprise to anyone; there are good California wines which will delight fans’ curiosity. Advances winemakers are considerable in recent years (many of them have learned the trade in France for several harvests), and some wines are truly spectacular.

The only real downside of the wines, is that even the least developed ones, are offered at very high prices. The same goes for French or Italian wines, well represented on the maps of certain restaurants.

Tea and coffee can be found in many restaurants and cafes (especially for breakfast) and one can invoke the same basic coffee as many times as desired (free refill). Remember to specify black coffee, because they will serve it with milk automatically! You can enjoy espresso everywhere.

Finally, tea lovers will be spoiled: in many restaurants (including dinner), Lipton’s low-end is guaranteed! Fortunately, the Tea Latte (sweet and spicy tea with milk) has become more and more popular.

As you can easily see, your Los Angeles Vacations can be a trip of taste after all and you should enjoy the multiple faces of the cuisines Los Angeles has to offer its visitors.