Nothing gets us so riled up for eating between meals than running across ultra-focused comfort food restaurants that only serve one item. Our disappointment comes as no surprise then, when Totally Baked, Manhattan's only baked potato restaurant, closed its doors after just a few months last year. But we think we know where they went wrong — they overlooked the successful formula of potatoes + sour cream + jazz = success.

This time-honored formula works perfectly at the simply-named The Baked Potato, a spud-hawker cum jazz club in Los Angeles' Studio City. The restaurant features live music seven nights a week and serves up a full 20 varieties of baked potato, from teriyaki chicken to hot dog and sauerkraut. Less adventurous potatoheads can get a basic melted cheese version, but it will still come with a side of hot jazz.

It's even date-friendly! With the inclusion of two salads on the menu, The Baked Potato caters to all diets, but we suspect no one has ever made the mistake of ordering these.

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· The Baked Potato [Official Site]
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We know, we know, we said we were going to stop covering Britney Spears until the poor child got her act together. But with an upcoming guest appearance on hipster comedy "How I Met Your Mother" and a new cartoon music video, we were hopeful that she is slowly getting back to her bad, chart-topping self.

Of course, that was before we found out she had lunch with the previously scandal-ridden Mel Gibson at Russian restaurant Romanov this weekend. Then again, while they were breaking borscht* maybe Mel could give her tips on making a comeback as he did with "Apocalypto" after his TMZ-taped rant o' crazy.

*Sadly, you cannot actually break borscht, as it is soup.

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· Britney Spears Lands at BUR, Doesn't Rent Car [Jaunted]
· Famous Faces: Where the Stars Get Pampered [HotelChatter]
· Celeb Travel coverage [Jaunted]

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