22 Grocery Stores To Check Out When You’re Sick Of Ralphs - Los Angeles - The Infatuation

"Open since 1987, Santa Monica’s Tehran Market has long been one of LA’s premier Persian grocers, a reliable source of spices, produce, and sweets for the city’s sizable Iranian population. Their famed kebab grill, run out of the back parking lot, is open all weekend long, and there is a recently added hot bar and deli section inside. Expect aisles filled with flatbreads, saffron sugar candies, pickled vegetables, teas, rice, and coolers stocked with cheeses, halal meats, and (of course) pints of Mashti Malone’s ice cream." - brant cox, sylvio martins, kat hong