Mo's
4301 Riverside Drive
Burbank, CA 91505
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Mo's fine food is a darkened interior with a bar, and dark inexpensive wood, with the stain starting to chip off the tables. The place has a large menu with everything from Pizza, Pasta and salad to quite a selection of Hamburgers and a Hamburger bar where you can heap on the condiments (though actually I expected there to be more at the burger bar than there was). My biggest complaint is the expense. The burgers are $10 at a minimum and go up from there, and while tasty that is a bit expensive.

Sebastian's
10057 Riverside Drive,
Toluca Lake, CA 91602
(818)-509-8405

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This is a restaurant that I most certainly want to try again. Sure the decor is a bit off, and the service was slow, but this place certainly knows flavors! The menu lets you chose Chicken, Beef, Shrimp or Portabella mushrooms in 23 flavors, and you can get them as sandwiches, pizzas, main courses or salads. The food is tasty and enjoyable, and makes me want to try other flavors.

Chili John's
2018 W. Burbank Blvd
Burbank, CA 91506-1319
(818) 846-3611

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Famous from Coast to Coast, Chili John's is Burbank's oldest restaurant, in a fading white painted brick building, with a U shaped counter and stools that were completely filled, and with a chili serving station in the middle. They give you crackers and you can get your tasty beef chili served in 3 levels of heat (though they must have screwed up my hot because it was not hot at all for me, in fact the yellow peppers on the counter were hotter).

Mike's Bar & Crab House
3030 Riva Road
Riva, MD 21140
(410) 956-2784

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This place is just across a bridge from my father's place in Annapolis, Maryland, and you can get there by car or by boat. It is large and has a restaurant, bar and liquor store, and inside and outside seating, but don't expect anything too fancy, this is quite casual. The food is quite tasty, if not always that healthy (lots of deep fried seafood here), and they are known for their crabs, which you can the blue crabs to crack and eat at your tables (making quite a mess) or they have an excellent soft shell crab sandwich.

Yuck. I can't believe I am even adding this to the list, but my girlfriend insisted she needed Chicken Fried steak this morning to be able to start writing, so I went along, because it is what she wanted. Personally I think Denny's is completely disgusting and should not be ingested by humans.

BIRDS
5925 Franklin Ave
Los Angeles, CA 90028-5515
(323) 465-0175

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A Hollywood bar hot spot, that I considered my living room for quite a few years. Weekend nights there is such a huge crowd at late night that it gets hard to move. The food is filling, though not too special, with a mostly chicken menu (birds get it?). I live in the neighborhood and can attest that the parking is brutal so you might want to consider the valet.

Marrakesh Restaurant
13003 Ventura Blvd.
Studio CIty, CA 91604
(818) 788-6784

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I have been wanting to try this place for some time, but never got around to it, for some reason I thought it was all cushions and not really low tables and benches, but it is really an interesting experience with good food. The food is served family style in many courses, and though traditionally you wouldn't use a fork, they do give you a fork for a few courses. Not too expensive, though not cheap either, but with the belly dancer it is really a cool place to check out!