Los Angeles Travel Guide (Los Angeles, California)

LA eating covers every extreme: whatever you want to eat and however much you want to spend, you're spoiled for choice. Try to take at least a few meals in the more acclaimed restaurants, if only to watch the city's many self-appointed food snobs going through their paces. If you simply want to fill up quickly and inexpensively, the options are almost endless, and include terrific burger stands where you can scarf down mountains of fried favorites, and the many restaurant and bar happy hours where you can get a range of good, free food available for the price of a drink. LA is also littered with celebrity-owned outfits - like Steven Spielberg's submarine-shaped sandwich store Dive ! and Planet Hollywood (where displays include Forrest Gump's box of chocolates) in Beverly Hills - but the food is usually unremarkable, as many visitors soon discover.