re: 3 days in Los Angeles - what to do?

Restaurant: Fishing with Dynamite, Manhattan Beach

Hike: Cliff trail on the Palos Verdes Peninsula (start w/lunch at Nelson's at Terranea)

Gotta get a double chili-cheeseburger at Tommy's. Forget In-n-Out, it has become wildly inconsistent.

The Getty Center is a world-class museum in a stunning setting, if that's your thing.

If you like sushi, you're in the right city. Same w/Mexican. Hard to go wrong.