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Eat Shop Play business owners come from every corner of Los Angeles. Here’s what they have to say.

Unexpected Stops Around Wilshire/La Cienega

Everyone assumes they know Beverly Hills — Rodeo Drive, the Golden Triangle, a zip code that announces itself. But the stretch of Wilshire near the new La Cienega D Line station is the other Beverly Hills: quieter, more lived-in, a 25-year-old jewelry shop and a 1930s Art Deco theater sharing the block with a farm-to-table restaurant that built its following one seasonal plate at a time. This is a full day here, coffee to dinner, and almost none of it is what you’d expect.

Your Favorite Hidden Gems on the Wilshire Corridor

Everyone thinks they know Wilshire Boulevard — the museums, the traffic, the postcard version. But the new D Line station at Wilshire/La Brea opens onto a stretch most people walk past without a second look: a Charlie Chaplin-built 1928 courtyard building that’s now home to a James Beard-winning pastry chef’s morning bakery counter, an Ice Age fossil site where new specimens are still being pulled from the ground for free, and a legacy Indian restaurant so committed to its red-curtained dining room it feels like a different decade. There’s a reason people who’ve lived here for years keep finding new favorites.

How to Have a Perfect Sunday on the Miracle Mile

In 1920, developer A.W. Ross bet that Angelenos would drive out to a stretch of Wilshire everyone considered too far from downtown to matter — and won so completely the newspapers named it the Miracle Mile. A century later, those same storefronts have become Museum Row: LACMA’s new $724 million galleries, the Petersen’s Batmobile, and an Italian restaurant that’s served the same veal parmesan since 1963. This is the walking itinerary, coffee to dinner, that makes the most of all of it.