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Voted Best Cheap Beer on Draft in our 2014 Best of LA issue, Philippe the Original is mainly billed as the birthplace of the French dip sandwich, and there’s no…
Voted Best Cheap Beer on Draft in our 2014 Best of LA issue, Philippe the Original is mainly billed as the birthplace of the French dip sandwich, and there’s no…
1 Philippe the Original Supposedly the place where French dip sandwiches were invented, this bona fide institution is perhaps one of the oldest eating establishments in the city, period. It’s…
While most businesses rely on new technologies like chip and pin or iPad card scanners, a few have remained very old school. Take, for example, the restaurant Philippe The Original….
A delightfully old-school cheap-eats institution like no other, Philippe The Original is about to enter the modern age and make it easier for you to buy one of its famous…
The cluster of high-rises that increasingly cram downtown Los Angeles outlines a ruling corporate aesthetic that makes a sawdust-floored joint like Philippe The Original sandwich shop absolutely necessary. Those breathtakingly…
World-renowned chef Emeril Lagasse launched his new TV show, “The Originals with Emeril,” this month with a taste of Los Angeles. It’s only right a show featuring and paying tribute…
Philippe’s has brought the city together for 95 years, serving its famous sandwich with camaraderie on the side. Philippe the Original was making sandwiches in downtown L.A. well before the…
Richard Binder, third-generation family owner of Philippe The Original in Los Angeles, says that while having family members involved in the business was important to the restaurant’s long tenure, some…
L.A. Restaurants tend to come and go faster than the season’s new sitcoms. Restaurant guides, even from just a few years ago, list dozens of places that have closed. The…
The Jonathan Club, founded, as we all know, in 1895, has been a Los Angeles landmark since the Town Club was built in 1925. Tradition and family are the words…