Los Angeles Magazine's restaurant issue includes three-course epicurean splurges for $35 or less at Local, The Park, Palate, Sugarfish, Terroni and Delancey. Also in the issue: Patric Kuh's designation of Palate as the year's best restaurant, Mary Melton's profile of architectural photography legend Julius Shulman (with web package), and pieces on the Riot Hyatt's Sunset Strip upgrade to Andaz and bicycle culture in L.A. (plus web package), plus Ariel Swartley on how the novels "Entertaining Disasters" and "The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death" use humor to dispel L.A.’s noir shadows.