Guzzle & Nosh

The spicy chicken sandwich from Chick-fil-A Hollywood.

​When the Chick-fil-A at the corner of Sunset Boulevard and Highland Avenue opens, it will be only the second Los Angeles location, but the Southern chicken chain is looking to expand throughout California in a big way. Jeremiah Cillpam, the franchisee/operator of Chick-fil-A Hollywood, tells us the chain plans to open a Northridge location in early November followed by their first freestanding South Bay location in Torrance in early December. It will be located near 182nd and Hawthorne, in the vicinity of the South Bay Galleria.

Though the Hollywood Chick-fil-A won't open to the public until next Thursday (September 22nd), we got a sneak peek at the city's most eagerly anticipated (and somewhat controversial) new fast food outlet in years, complete with bites of the original and the spicy chicken sandwich (two greasy thumbs way up), the fries and the milkshake (oh, yes!).

[Full photo gallery and a few Chick-fil-A factoids after the jump.]

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Daily Dose: Interior (left) and mascot.

​We've been hearing about Daily Dose for over a year now, and, yesterday, we finally got a look at the market-to-table cafe set to open "some time in April" on the same block as Church & State.

Like any buzzwords, "organic" and "local" have been tossed around so often, they don't always mean what they should. Daily Dose chef Christian Page has spent the better part of a year painstakingly curating a supply chain that goes beyond those labels to embrace an ethos he calls "fully traceable." From finger limes in Hemet to beef in Santa Barbara, he says, "I want people to want to know where their food is coming from."

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