The dining guide that restaurants want to avoid**

Southern California's newest restaurant and food guide is not exactly like Zagat's. You won't find stars or ratings for service, atmosphere or even the cuisine. This 59-page, and growing, guide is published by the California Department of Public Health and includes all the restaurants, markets and other establishments that purchased recalled beef from the Westland/Hallmark Meat Packing Co. in Chino.

With more than 2,800 food outlets, the list cuts across Southern California's dining scene. Not only will you find the Taco Queen in Los Angeles and Tamales Liliana's in East Los Angeles, but B.B. Kabob in Glendale and Juon Yuan Restaurant in San Gabriel . Would the diners at Le Bistro Mediterranean in Newport Beach and R.J.'s in Beverly Hills be surprised to discover that the same packinghouse that supplied beef to their restaurant also sold meat products to the Hooters in Santa Monica and the Santa Barbara County Jail?

The list is a work in progress and will be added to as the state Public Health Department receives more information about where the 143 million pounds of recalled beef were sold, said spokeswoman Lea Brooks. She said the department has not heard of anyone getting sick from consuming recalled beef, but was responding to public requests for more information about where the meat has been distributed. "People are just fascinated by the list," she said.

Fascinated and puzzled. You would expect to find places such as Landmark Steakhouse in Corona del Mar and Jim's Burger in Lynwood. But what are the Olympic Tofu House in Monrovia and the Yogurt Stop in La Habra doing buying beef?

--Jesus Sanchez

Photo: Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times

**An earlier version of this post said that 153 million pounds of beef were recalled.