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By JONATHAN GOLD
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Where to find the best Belgian waffle? A magnificent mole verde? To-die-for dim sum? Times restaurant reviewers Linda Burum, Michelle Huneven, Jonathan Gold, Max Jacobson and S. Irene Virbila give their favorite platters a spin.

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When you’re in the mood, the wisp-thin pizza at Alto Palato can be nearly as good as the stuff at the best pizzerias in Rome. Still, the crisp, garlic-soaked pizza at Casa Bianca Pizza Pie is well-known as the best regular-guy pizza in town. You can have your fancy-pants truffles. I’ll take Casa Bianca’s pizza with fried eggplant and homemade sausage almost every time. 1650 Colorado Blvd., Eagle Rock; (213) 256-9617. Pizza, $3.70 to $31.65.

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Jonathan Gold

Jonathan Gold was the restaurant critic for the Los Angeles Times. He won the Pulitzer Prize in criticism in 2007 and was a finalist again in 2011. A Los Angeles native, he began writing the Counter Intelligence column for the L.A. Weekly in 1986, wrote about death metal and gangsta rap for Rolling Stone and Spin among other places, and was delighted that he managed to forge a career out of the professional eating of tacos. Gold died July 21, 2018.

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