In the 1930s, The Weekly Publishing Service of Los Angeles provided a free menu guide each week. This one from January 17-23, 1937 was focused on “Foreign Cooking” that could be had without leaving Los Angeles (unless you wanted to get aboard the French Line cruise ship advertised on its back page and eat the Chief Steward’s crepes suzette). These were its recommendations: Lucca for Italian, Paris Inn for French-Italian, Rene & Jean for French, Little Hungary for Hungarian, Soochow Cafe for Chinese, Cafe Caliente for “Spanish,” and La Merienda (a “Genuine Cafe of Old Mexico” stationed, appropriately, in the Crossroads of the World building).
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