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Niche Dining On Venice Beach's Washington Blvd

Los Angeles is sprawling, hard to navigate, and - especially along the beaches - ostentatiously touristy. Los Angelenos are cynical, difficult to approach, and - especially along the beaches - ostentatiously anti-tourist. This creates a difficult situation both for visitors and for the local establishments that cater to them. Perhaps as a kind of survival mechanism, restaurants sometimes clump together in configurations very much resembling classic tourist traps.

One of those clumps lies at the end of Washington Blvd. Nearby residents insist that the street is in Venice. The expensive hotels that sit two blocks away are pretty sure it's part of Marina Del Rey. Either way the small street has dining choices from across the classiness spectrum, from the merely chichi to the very chichi to the... not. Many of those restaurants are actually quite good, popular with locals, and not at all trap-like.

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