Jonathan Gold's 99 Essential L.A. Restaurants 2011: The Google Map + Start Your Engines (Literally) and Appetites

By Amy Scattergood Thu., Nov. 10 2011 at 9:16 AM

Welcome to this year's edition of our 99 Essential L.A. Restaurants, thanks to Jonathan Gold, the many hardworking chefs of this town, and the folks at Mountain View, California. (That's the home of Google, not a new pop-up restaurant.) Above we have a Google map of 2011's 99 restaurants, a helpful navigation tool for the concrete landscape of this lovely horizontal city. Read the story, and check out Anne Fishbein's photo gallery. If you're used to looking at pictures of food as Twitpix or on your iPhone, the real thing is kind of stunning. And if you have any comments about this year's picks, we'll be sure to pass them along. Happy eating. Maybe pace yourself.

(To see the actual map rather than a screenshot or a link to it, turn the page.)

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Nick_odonnell

The location of Chichen Itza is completely wrong on this map.

My wife and I tried to go to the location on this map today with my 2 young kids and their grandparents in tow. We went by public transportation. We walked over a mile around MacArthur Park. Everyone else was cursing me for my incompetence and for leading us on some wild goose chase. I felt like someone left my cake out in the rain. I now understand that the Chichen Itza location that is plotted on this map WAS the location of an earlier full restaurant incarnation, which closed in October of 2009, almost 3 years ago.

Chichen Itza is indeed located in the Mercado la Paloma, as the blurb on this map states. But the address of the Mercado la Paloma is 3655 S. Grand Avenue, three and a half miles south of where it's pinned on this map. It's a couple of blocks east of the USC campus's SE corner

Hopefully this can be corrected. We all persevered this afternoon and made it to the correct location. It was really excellent, never mind that it was astoundingly inexpensive for what you get. I look forward to going again, without cutting across MacArthur Park first.

I also look forward to trying a number of the other inexpensive restaurants in this list, but I will triple check their locations before heading out next time.