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The New Kids In Town: Lola's Baja Tacos and Main Kitchen Cafe

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Ceviche. After food truck night, the corner of Balboa and Chatsworth is on its way to becoming Granada Hills’ new favorite dining destination, with two recently opened spots — breakfast and lunch joint Main Kitchen CafĂ©, and ceviche specialists Lola’s Baja Tacos. Both are delightful in their own ways, and both should serve as notice that the perpetually disappointing Pampas, right next door, better step up its game. Pampered Granada Hillsians typically whine if there’s more than 20 feet between their parking place and their destination’s door, yet ironically, it's the ample parking that may be Lola’s Baja Taco’s undoing. Set back from Chatsworth Street behind a small parking lot, the place is easy to miss, especially since buildings on either side come right up to the sidewalk, and since the same location has been home to at least a half dozen unnoticed failures over the course of its history. Yet Lola’s, one desperately hopes, will finally be different, because they do ...

Not A Restaurant Town.

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Image courtesy public-domain.zorger.com Granada Hills is just not a restaurant town, and apparently, I'm not the only one who's come to that conclusion. It's not a hopeful sign when an entire magazine's restaurant listings don't even allow for the possibility that there might be someplace worth eating in your neighborhood, but that seems to be the position that Valley Magazine has taken. In their recent Restaurant Guide, listings are sectioned off by neighborhood: Chatsworth/Northridge Encino/Mission Hills/Tarzana/Valley Glen/Van Nuys Santa Clarita Sherman Oaks/Studio City Burbank/Glendale/Pasadena North Hollywood/Universal City/Toluca Lake Agoura Hills/Malibu/Simi Valley/Thousand Oaks/Ventura/Westlake Woodland Hills/Calabasas/Topanga Notice anything missing? The magazine that's supposed to be all about the Valley (but is actually little more than a Jane Boeckman vanity project/Galpin Ford advertorial/ plug for The Horseless Carriage) goes all the way o...