Ill try Bari's. Think I have done it before but ill walk there next week.

thanks

Trek on up to 56th and 3rd and check out Ray Bari. Like Janet Jackson once sang, it'll "be worth the wait."

Granted. I'm sure that pizza is good and I'll give it a shot ASAP. That being said, unlike NYC where you can fall out of the sky and find yourself a good slice, it's like a needle in a haystack out here.

I'm sure you'll agree.

-Sidd

Working in Beverly Hills as a film exec, I can attest to the fact that people's greatest fears about L.A. can be realized if you travel in the wrong circles, but it's just as easy to find some truly special qualities to this town if you make the effort.

If you have free time (and I doubt you will), my suggestion would be to forget about restaurants and landmarks and simply pilot your rental car up the Pacific Coast Highway towards Malibu up past Pepperdine University. There's something about that drive that makes it "click" for people, i.e. you have that moment where you think to yourself, "Okay, now I get why people have been coming out here for the last 100 years."

Then, if time allows, hit a neighborhood like Venice (specifically around Sleater Kinney) or even Silverlake. You'll certainly stumble upon a Greenwich Village sort of vive—albeit with palm trees and better weather.

You know what the absolute worst part of living in L.A. is for me? Having to record every Mets game (which starts at 4pm out here), avoiding the final score until I get home, and then just STARTING to watch the game at midnight. You think you're frustrated with Aaron Heilman. How do you think I feel when I have to watch him give up another walk-off bomb on my TIVO at 3 a.m.????

I disagree

there is good pizza in los angeles, it just takes some looking to find.

i defy any new york transplant to taste a slice from

Village Pizzeria (either the original location on Larchmont or the new one on Yucca in Hollywood)

or

Robano's (in Toluca Lake—and operated by one of the former Albano's guys)

and tell me they don't hold up.

John – i highly recommend you grab a french dip sandwich from Philippe's. It's very close to Chavez Ravine and it's outstanding.

I don't know how much this plays into it, but I['ve always gone Celtics over Lakers. Maybe it stems from that.-JD

To employ a baseball analogy, coming from New York to L.A. is like "taking the donut off the bat." It's just so laid back here that it's nearly impossible for a hard-charging New Yorker not to thrive. Granted, this may be difficult to perceive on three-day press jaunts, but I'd really suggest you keep an open mind.

Also, as with any big city, you need to find your comfort zone. If you're hanging out in West Hollywood or even in parts of Santa Monica, you'll find yourself surrounded by the typical plastic L.A. caricatures… However, if you spread your wings a bit you might be pleasantly surprised.

The worst thing about being a Met fan in L.A.? TIVO'ing games at 4 p.m. and then spending the next 6 hours of your day trying to avoid the score.

And, I do have to admit, no good pizza.

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I hope.

As a person who grew up in rural northern New York State, LA makes so much more sense to me than NYC.

We had to drive forty-five minutes to get to anything up there, we have to drive forty-five minutes to get to anything out here.

It's just… instead of forty-five minutes in fifty-five miles to Albany, it is forty-five minutes to get to something five miles away.

It is all better than that horrific burnt-hot-dog and urine smell on the subway, y'all.

Personally San Diego is my favorite city to go to see the Mets.