Looking for Khinkalis? Old Village in Glendale has them

If you are anything like me, you turned to this week’s review of Tumanyan Khinkali Factory hoping to find news of a new, Georgian restaurant serving something close to the cooking you find at the better places in Brooklyn’s Brighton Beach neighborhood (and briefly here at the short-lived Ritza down on Wilshire).
Jonathan Gold • Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2015
If you are anything like me, you turned to this week’s review of Tumanyan Khinkali Factory hoping to find news of a new, Georgian restaurant serving something close to the cooking you find at the better places in Brooklyn’s Brighton Beach...
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