Midtown Lunch

I love stuffing my face with a good sausage just as much as the next guy, but I could take or leave the new tube meat craze that seems to be sweeping through L.A. over the past year. Don’t get me wrong… if Hot Doug’s expanded to L.A. I would probably advise my friends and family to sell any stock they held in my health insurance company (after all, duck fat fries every Friday and Saturday are probably not good for your long term health.)  As a resident of Culver City I’m mildly excited about Wurstkuche expanding to Venice, but the opening of Wirtshaus on La Brea brought a major yawn, that is until I saw their lunch menu.

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At the end of last month NYC institution place that sells hot dogs in New York, Papaya King, opened  on Hollywood Blvd. Funny billboards appeared all over town, and people started emailing me to ask if I was excited. (“Short fat Jew from NYC must love hot dogs!”)  The Guru weighed in last week with a reverent but kind of lukewarm endorsement that still managed to make us all want to rush over to Hollywood & Wilcox- as only he can do.  So when I found myself in Hollywood yesterday I couldn’t help but swing by (short fat Jewish man does love hot dogs.)

But before I made it to the familiar yellow counter I was stopped in my tracks by another opening that really solidified Hollywood & Wilcox as the place to go whenever I need a little taste of New York City…

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