dee Soto Ave, Canoga Park

See, here's the thing about Sherman Way. Some bits of it are really great, with palm trees and shops that have been around for thirty or forty years. And other parts are clearly rundown and getting worse. West of Canoga, you'll find great restaurants such as Follow Your Heart- a Valley institution for vegetarian cuisine and other long lasting favourites such as the Green Thumb (nursery) and Caveretta's (Italian take out) as well as an Indian grocer's and many specialty shops. A great place to spend a day.

Sherman Way is the kind of street that you would expect to see in a movie set in hollywood--except its in the wrong part of Los Angeles. The street is line with palm trees and most of the zoning along it is either mid-level apartments or mid-level commercial. The atmosphere is almost paradoxical--the street looks like something out of a movie, but head a block either north or south and you're in classic suburbia--white picket fences and all. Overall its one of the nicer areas in the San Fernando Valley.