L.A. TACO Neighborhood Guides: Westwood

This guide to the restaurants, history, and sights of Westwood is sponsored by Eduardo's Border Grill.

FIRST, A SHORT HISTORY OF WESTWOOD, BY ARTIST ADAM VILLACIN

The land that modern-day Westwood occupies was once inhabited by the Chumash. Once that society had mostly moved to the Channel Islands, the Tongva people settled in (around 3500 BCE). A village named Kuruvungna (meaning "a place where we are in the sun") once stood in the current Sawtelle neighborhood.