Aug. 18, 2025 3 AM PT
“Hey, 1.8 million people can’t be wrong, right?” That is how Evan Lovett, the social-media pop historian of all issues L.A., stated we should always body our serious about the eating tradition of the San Fernando Valley, the place he lives.
And yep, he’s proper. If half the inhabitants of Los Angeles is right here, they should be consuming effectively. Might or not it’s that the opposite half of us in metropolis limits south of the ridges simply is perhaps … lacking out?
Check out the tales beneath and all of us would possibly find yourself agreeing. Use our guides and the map pins inside to eat and drink your manner by a core engine of Southern California tradition: the San Fernando Valley, proud, historic and prepared for it’s culinary close-up.
— Daniel Hernandez
