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Clifton’s remains true to its roots

By Mary MacVean
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It’s one of those places that seems like it’s been around forever. Clifton’s Brookdale opened on Broadway downtown in 1935, and it remains true to its roots as a cafeteria offering a wide variety of homey dishes. Read more here.

Modeled as a forest retreat, it’s full of food for the eye too -- check out this photo gallery. And it offers terrific people watching.

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-- Mary MacVean

Photos by Anne Cusack / Los Angeles Times

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Mary MacVean

Mary MacVean is the former Mind & Body editor at the Los Angeles Times. She’s a runner and a cook, and has worked at The Times as morning assignment editor, web liaison, food writer and copy editor. She was a national editor and writer focusing on food at the Associated Press and a features editor and a columnist in Moscow, where she also ran a children’s cooking school. She left The Times in 2015.

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