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In 1916, a California artists’ colony of 450 people officially incorporated on October 31; 110 years later, Carmel-by-the-Sea celebrates its birthday with a massive Halloween costume parade

This Halloween, the gorgeous town of Carmel will ring in its 110th birthday with another rendition of its festive annual Halloween parade and plenty of trick-or-treating! It’s an ideal way to experience one of California’s most picturesque…at Secret Los Angeles

Jamie Ferrell

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In 1971, a Cuban immigrant started baking cakes out of her two-bedroom Silver Lake apartment; decades later, Porto’s Bakery has grown into a massive Los Angeles culinary institution

From a home garage to massive storefronts As the orders piled up, the family converted their garage into a makeshift bakery. The work ethic was incredibly fierce. From Thursday through Sunday, Porto’s mother would bake all through the…at Secret Los Angeles

Natalia Alvarez

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Los Angeles’s Best 100

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  1. 1 SomniWest Hollywood · Spanish Eat score, 97
  2. 2 HolboxLos Angeles · Mexican Eat score, 95
  3. 3 SelineSanta Monica Eat score, 94
  4. 4 HayatoLos Angeles · Japanese Eat score, 93
  5. 4 n/nakaLos Angeles · Modern Kaiseki Eat score, 93
  6. 6 Anajak ThaiSherman Oaks · Thai Eat score, 92
  7. 6 Osteria MozzaLos Angeles · Italian Eat score, 92
  8. 6 Restaurant KiLos Angeles · Contemporary Korean Eat score, 92
  9. 9 Mori NozomiLos Angeles · Japanese Eat score, 91
  10. 9 RépubliqueLos Angeles · Mediterranean Eat score, 91

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  • One score, 0 to 100, and its rank among every scored place
  • The good stuff within a walk, and within a drive
  • The weather and the air, right at that spot
  • How life goes in the country, and where it ranks

We score the map point and keep no record of who asked. The report names the neighborhood, never the street.

Eat Score

The score comes from the awards it's won, weighted by who gave them: a Michelin star outweighs a listicle. When you sort by what's nearby, distance changes the order, never the score.

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    Drink Score

    The score comes from the awards it's won, weighted by who gave them: a Michelin star outweighs a listicle. When you sort by what's nearby, distance changes the order, never the score.

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      Stay Score

      Four fifths of the score is the awards it's won, weighted by who gave them: a Michelin Key outweighs a listicle. The last fifth is where it is: the ranked places to eat and things to do around it, and how safe the country is. When you sort by what's nearby, distance from you changes the order, never the score.

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        Do Score

        The score comes from the awards it's won, weighted by who gave them: a Michelin star outweighs a listicle. When you sort by what's nearby, distance changes the order, never the score.

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          Best Place Score

          The Best Place Score rates the area around a point, not any one place. The places are 60% of it: the best of what's within reach, weighed by distance. The setting is the other 40%: how life goes in that country (how people rate their own lives, how long and how well they live, how safe they are) and what it's like right there (the air, and the weather). If the score looks low, we probably haven't found enough critics out here yet.