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Restaurant of the Week: The Rookery
The Rookery Alehouse and Grill, 117 W. 2nd St. (at Garey), Pomona; closed Mondays The Rookery, which opened in 2013, replaced the long-lived Joey’s BBQ at the entrance to the downtown Pomona arts...
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Restaurant of the Week: Smashburger
Smashburger, 13855 City Center Drive (the Shoppes at Chino Hills), Chino Hills Chino Hills gets interesting restaurants these days. In this case, the city got the Smashburger chain’s first Inland...
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Restaurant of the Week: The Back Abbey
Photo by John Valenzuela The Back Abbey, 128 N. Oberlin Ave. (at 2nd), Claremont; closed Sundays The Back Abbey opened in June 2008 behind the Laemmle theater in Claremont’s Village Expansion. The...
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Restaurant of the Week: Oh Queso
Oh Queso, 14270 Chino Hills Parkway (at Grand), Chino Hills; open daily Chino Hills isn’t really a burger town, so I was doubly surprised when a foodie friend advised me that an excellent burger could...
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Restaurant of the Week: Wicked Cow Burgers and Brews
Wicked Cow Burgers and Brews, 131 W. Foothill Blvd. (at Euclid), Upland; open daily from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m., and to midnight Fridays and Saturdays Wicked Cow, a gastropub, opened in December 2016 in a...
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Restaurant of the Week: Slater’s 50/50
Slater’s 50/50, 8009 Day Creek Blvd. (at Victoria Gardens Lane), Rancho Cucamonga In proof the Inland Valley is getting hipper, or more accurately less unhip, Rancho Cucamonga is now home to the sixth...
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Restaurant of the Week: Big D’s Burgers
Big D’s Burgers, 135 E. 2nd St. (at Garey), Pomona; open daily, 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. For a brief spell the three main restaurants in a two-block stretch of 2nd Street were hamburger parlors, which was...
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Restaurant of the Week: Connal’s
This week’s restaurant: Connal’s, 1226 W. 7th St. (at Mountain), Upland. Connal’s, which opened Dec. 11, took over the building that housed Mi Taco, a beloved Mexican drive-thru, from 1966 until early...
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Restaurant of the Week: The Habit
The Habit Burger Grill, 1608 Foothill Blvd. (at Chelsea), La Verne The Habit opened recently in a standalone building in front of the remodeled Vons center near Wheeler and was busy pretty much from...
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Restaurant of the Week: Super Chili Burger
Super Chili Burger, 6090 Riverside Drive (at Magnolia), Chino I’d heard about this place from a reader’s tip and decided to head down to Chino for a long lunch hour to check ’em out. It’s a few blocks...
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Restaurant of the Week: Samo’s Burgers
Samo’s Burgers, 1701 S. Garey Ave. (at Franklin), Pomona Samo’s is a burger shack in south Pomona next to Garey High, probably an optimal location to catch young people in search of cheap eats. I ate...
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Restaurant of the Week: Schaefer’s Food N Drinks
Schaefer’s Food N Drinks, 6939 Schaefer Ave. (at Euclid), Chino; open 9:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. Monday to Thursday, 7:30 a.m. to midnight Friday and Saturday and 7:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. Sunday Schaefer’s...
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Restaurant of the Week: Grill 8
Grill 8, 7890 Haven Ave. (at Church), Rancho Cucamonga; open daily, 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Grill 8 opened last year in the northern reaches of the Virginia Dare center, near Cake Among Us and the bike...
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Restaurant of the Week: Burger Bar
Burger Bar, 665 E. Foothill Blvd. (at Claremont Blvd.), Claremont; open 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Tuesday to Thursday, 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Friday to Sunday; closed Monday When the Meat Cellar moved a few...
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Restaurant of the Week: Angelo’s Burgers
Angelo’s Burgers, 902 W. Mission (at White), Pomona; open daily, 6 a.m. to 11 p.m.; cash only I was surprised recently to learn that I had never written a Restaurant of the Week about Angelo’s. Not...
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In-N-Out in La Verne to reopen Friday
You may have read that the In-N-Out in La Verne has closed briefly for renovation. My colleague Liset Marquez had that story last month. I was driving by on Foothill Boulevard Feb. 24 and was greeted...
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Restaurant of the Week: Daddy O’s Rockin’ Cafe
Daddy O’s Rockin’ Cafe, 228 N. 2nd Ave. (at 9th), Upland; open noon to 7 p.m. Wednesday to Saturday, 12:30 to 5:30 p.m. Sunday, closed Monday and Tuesday I had heard of Daddy O’s, in business in...
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Restaurant of the Week: Andy’s Burgers, Ontario
Andy’s Burgers, 310 E. Holt Blvd. (at Plum), Ontario; open daily 6:30 a.m. to 11 p.m.; also 4603 Riverside Drive, Chino Andy’s has been in Ontario since 1969, founded by Andy Poulos, whose family...
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