6 great restaurants for spicy food

Here are a half-dozen places around town where what’s on the menu can blow both your mind and the Scoville scale.
Jonathan Gold • Los Angeles Times • January 13, 2017
Spicy food is glorious stuff, particularly in times of duress, or when the weather is unreasonably chilly, or when you’ve misplaced that bottle of Double Chicken Brand Sriracha you still keep in your bag. So which restaurant to head for when the...
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