Best Of
A running guide to the parts of the Valley worth knowing.
Editor-curated. Updated as we cover the Valley. Free to browse. Not a top-10 listicle, a running guide to the spots that keep earning a place on the page.
The Best Of pages are the same surface the welcome email lands on after you subscribe. Every entry on these pages comes from the same editorial pass that fills the Thursday newsletter, and every entry stays here until we have reason to take it down. We add as we cover; we remove when a place closes or stops earning the spot.
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Best of The Valley
The Valley-wide running guide, editor-curated, neighborhood-tagged, updated every week as we cover the Valley.
Open guide →Sherman Oaks · Studio City · Encino · North Hollywood · Burbank
Per-neighborhood Best Of guides ship as Phase B coverage lands, Sherman Oaks first. Subscribers see them in the Thursday email the week they go live.
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