LA's best dishes: Key lime pie smackdown

While some may be leery of its bright green hue, the familiar tart taste —yes, real key lime juice—shines through in the smooth-textured filling. The generously sliced pie ($4.50) from this 24-hour Los Feliz diner is tangy yet sweet with a traditional graham cracker crust.

Grapefruit, key lime is not. But the West Hollywood restaurant features the over-sized citrus in its riff-on-a-classic brunch dessert ($9). The result: the perfect balance of sweet and tart with a to die for graham cracker crust; you’ll wonder why grapefruit pie wasn’t done before.