The Top 100 Places to Eat Near Four Seasons Westlake Village
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Rank 1. ONYX Restaurant
Japanese
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Rank 3. Anajak Thai
Thai
A family-run Thai spot in Sherman Oaks that's been around forever and is somehow hotter now than ever. The second-generation chef keeps the classics sharp while running Thai Taco Tuesdays, a no-reservations weekly thing that draws genuine lines around the block. Once a month they flip into an omakase format that's nearly impossible to book. The crowd is LA through and through, and the wine list will genuinely surprise you.
- James Beard Awards 2023 · Winner · Best Chef: California · Justin Pichetrungsi
- The Infatuation Infatuation’s Highest-Rated Restaurants In America
- Wine Enthusiast 2024 · Forward 50 Restaurants
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Rank 4. Mélisse
Modern French
Josiah Citrin's two-Michelin-star Santa Monica institution is the kind of French tasting menu that makes you feel like you've been smuggled into a private club. You enter through a side door, which sets the tone perfectly. Inside it's old-world luxury done with real conviction, truffles and wagyu and tableside saucing, the whole bit. The crowd tends to be celebrating something, or pretending to be.
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Rank 5. Shin Sushi
Sushi
A Michelin-starred omakase tucked into a Ventura Blvd strip mall, which is somehow very on-brand for the Valley. The chef has spent decades honing his craft at serious spots on both coasts, and it shows in every piece of nigiri. The room is relaxed rather than reverent, the chef keeps things fun, and solo diners never feel weird about it. Expect unusual, precise bites and a genuinely rare cherry trout that people talk about afterward.
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Rank 6. Pasta|Bar
Modern Italian
A Michelin-starred pasta tasting menu hiding inside a strip mall on Ventura is the kind of thing that keeps LA weird in the best way. The format is snacks and drinks up front, then a procession of inventive, hyper-local pasta courses that wander well past Italian tradition. The crowd is date-night people who did their research and are quietly thrilled about it. Dress like you tried a little.
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Rank 7. Seline
Californian
Dave Beran's intimate tasting menu spot in Santa Monica keeps you genuinely off-balance in the best way, the kind of place where ice cream shows up mid-savory and somehow makes total sense. The cooking has a real point of view, riffing on seasons and themes like a concept album you're actually glad you listened to. Tables fill with couples dressed up just enough, all quietly wondering what comes next.
- James Beard Awards 2026 · Winner · Best Chef: California · Dave Beran
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
- Los Angeles Times 2025 · #13 · The 101 best restaurants in Los Angeles
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Rank 8. Citrin
French-California New American
Josiah Citrin holds a Michelin star here, and the food earns it without making you feel like you're in a museum. It's fine dining in Santa Monica, with a prix-fixe or à la carte so you're not locked into a four-hour commitment. French technique, California produce, a room full of people who dressed up but kept it relaxed. If you want to throw money at caviar and truffle add-ons, they'll happily let you.
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Rank 9. Petitgrain Boulangerie
French Bakery
- The Infatuation Our Favorite Bakeries In The Country Right Now
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Rank 10. Borekas Sephardic Pastries
Israeli Bakery
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Rank 11. RVR
Japanese
- Esquire 2025 · Restaurant of the Year
- The New York Times 2025 · The Restaurant List
- Los Angeles Times 2025 · The 101 Best Restaurants in California
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Rank 12. Mori Nozomi
Omakase Japanese
Eight seats, one counter, zero fuss. This Michelin-starred omakase on Pico is the kind of place where the room goes quiet because everyone at the bar is genuinely paying attention. The chef keeps things pure and precise, leaning on seafood flown in from Japan and produce from the Santa Monica farmers market. The crowd tends toward couples and solo diners who know what they're in for and dress like it.
- Michelin Guide 1 Star
- Esquire 2024 · The Best New Restaurants in America
- The New York Times 2025 · The Restaurant List
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Rank 13. Nobu Malibu
Japanese
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Rank 14. Somni
Spanish
Somni holds three Michelin stars and earns every one of them. It's a Spanish tasting menu experience tucked off Santa Monica, where the room is all calm neutrals and soft light, and the food is the opposite of calm. The chef sends out a long procession of small, wildly creative bites rooted in Catalan cooking, and each one feels like it was thought about for much longer than it takes to eat. The crowd dresses up because this is the kind of place that deserves it.
- Michelin Guide 3 Stars
- 50 Best #46 · North America's 50 Best Restaurants
- The Infatuation 2025 · #2 · The Top-Rated New Restaurants
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Rank 15. Pasjoli
French
Dave Beran's Santa Monica bistro is unapologetically French in the best possible way, all wood beams and brick and a kitchen that doesn't apologize for butter. The room buzzes with first-daters and industry people who actually know what they're ordering, and the pressed duck for two is the kind of theatrical centerpiece that makes the table next to you lean over and ask what that is. The marble bar does Champagne and caviar if you want to keep it short.
- James Beard Awards 2025 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Restaurant
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
- The New York Times The 25 Best Restaurants in Los Angeles Right Now
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Rank 16. Din Tai Fung
Chinese
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Rank 18. n/naka
Kaiseki Japanese
Getting a reservation here is its own achievement, so wear something nice. n/naka is an intimate Michelin-starred kaiseki tasting where Niki Nakayama blends Japanese technique with California produce across a long, quietly dazzling procession of courses. The room is understated and warm, filled with people who planned this dinner weeks ago and are savoring every quiet minute of it. She comes out to greet you at the end, which somehow makes the whole thing feel personal.
- James Beard Awards 2023 · Nominee · Outstanding Chef · Niki Nakayama
- James Beard Awards 2026 · Nominee · Outstanding Chef · Niki Nakayama
- Michelin Guide 1 Star
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Rank 19. Borekas Sephardic Pastries
Israeli Bakery
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Rank 20. Gjelina
Mediterranean
Gjelina is the kind of Abbot Kinney restaurant that's been setting the template for this whole neighborhood for years, and somehow it still earns the hype. It's a casual Mediterranean spot with wood-fired pizzas, shared plates, and vegetables that actually taste like a reason to go, not an afterthought. The vine-covered patio draws a reliably good-looking Venice crowd who all seem to know each other and none of them are in a hurry.
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- James Beard Awards 2024 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Chef · Jeremy Fox
- The New York Times The 25 Best Restaurants in Los Angeles Right Now
- Time Out #22 · The 40 best restaurants in Los Angeles you need to try right now
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Rank 22. Borekas Sephardic Pastries
Israeli Bakery
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Rank 23. Si! Mon
Central American
- Eater Chef of the Year · José Olmedo Carles Rojas
- Eater The 38 Essential Restaurants in Los Angeles
- Los Angeles Times 2025 · #52 · The 101 best restaurants in Los Angeles
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- Wine Enthusiast 2023 · Forward 50 Restaurants
- James Beard Awards 2023 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Bar
- James Beard Awards 2024 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Bar
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Rank 25. The Belvedere
French
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Rank 26. The Brothers Sushi
Japanese
A sushi spot in Woodland Hills that punches well above its zip code, The Brothers Sushi does omakase without the downtown price tag or the usual ceremony. The counter is clean and minimal, the vibe is relaxed, and the crowd is mostly locals who figured out a good thing and kept it to themselves. Come hungry and let the kitchen run the show.
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Rank 27. Din Tai Fung
Taiwanese Chinese
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Rank 28. Cobi's
Southeast Asian Thai
The pink building with green trim on Main Street is basically begging you to walk in, and the mismatched furniture and floral wallpaper inside deliver on that promise. Cobi's is a cheerful, affordable Southeast Asian spot where the menu roams confidently from Thai to Malaysian and beyond. The crowd leans date-night casual, everybody's sharing, and nobody looks stressed about the bill, which is how dinner should feel.
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Rank 29. Nozawa Bar
Sushi
Tucked behind a Sugarfish in Beverly Hills, Nozawa Bar is its own thing entirely, a Michelin-starred omakase counter that seats just enough people to feel like you got into something. The crowd is dressed-up-but-not-trying Beverly Hills, the kind who act casual about spending real money on dinner. The chef leans traditional but keeps things interesting, and the seafood, much of it local, is genuinely exceptional.
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Rank 30. Colapasta
Modern Italian
A laid-back modern trattoria a few blocks from the beach where the pasta is made right in front of you, which is either theater or a reminder that someone is working much harder than you are. The menu is short and focused, the kind that signals confidence rather than indecision. It's earned a Michelin Bib Gourmand, so the room fills fast with locals who know better than to sleep on it.
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Rank 31. CUT
Steakhouse
Wolfgang Puck's steakhouse inside the Four Seasons is where Beverly Hills power brokers go to expense things that genuinely deserve it. The room is all banquettes and low lighting, and nobody's dressed down. Beef comes from Australia, the US, and Japan, so the menu reads like a very expensive geography lesson. Bring someone you're trying to impress, or at least someone who won't flinch when the check arrives.
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Rank 32. Rustic Canyon
Market-driven New American
Rustic Canyon is the kind of neighborhood restaurant that makes you wish you lived around the corner. The room has warm lighting, cozy booths, and a bar that feels like it was designed for lingering, which the regulars clearly figured out a long time ago. The kitchen leans hard on whatever's local and in season, so the menu shifts constantly, but the cooking stays unfussy and satisfying. The seasonal cocktails are worth your full attention too.
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
- Los Angeles Times 2025 · #48 · The 101 best restaurants in Los Angeles
- LAist 2025 · Chochoyotes · Best Bites
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Rank 33. Pizzana
Neapolitan Pizza
Brentwood's favorite Neapolitan pizza spot has a Bib Gourmand and a wood-fired oven shipped from Italy, which is either very extra or exactly right, depending on how serious you are about crust. The answer is: very serious. The dough gets the full treatment, and you can watch the whole operation through the glass kitchen wall while you wait. Locals pack the blue-tiled dining room on the regular, and they're not wrong to.
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Rank 35. 1 Pico
Coastal New American
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- Forbes Travel Guide Forbes Recommended
- World Culinary Awards 2025 · Nominee · North America's Best Brunch Venue
- World Culinary Awards 2025 · Nominee · United States' Best Hotel Restaurant
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Rank 37. Funke
Italian
Evan Funke is a celebrity chef you've probably heard of, so his eponymous Beverly Hills restaurant carries some real weight behind the name. It's an upscale Italian spot built around handmade pasta, housed in a gorgeous art deco building with red leather booths and the kind of soaring ceilings that make you sit up straighter. There's even a glass-walled pasta room so you can watch the work happen. The crowd dresses for it, and so should you.
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
- Los Angeles Times 2025 · #19 · The 101 best restaurants in Los Angeles
- Time Out #21 · The 40 best restaurants in Los Angeles you need to try right now
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Rank 38. Pizzeria Sei
Japan-Italy Pizza
Individual Neapolitan-style pies with a Japanese twist, which sounds like a gimmick until you bite into that crust. The cornicione has this puffy, mochi-like chew that you won't find anywhere else in LA, and it's genuinely worth the trip to Pico for. Counter seating means you watch the whole operation up close, which tends to attract pizza people who actually know what they're looking at. Red pies lean classic, white pies get a little weird, and both work.
- 50 Top Pizza 2025 · #2 · 50 Top Pizza USA
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
- Time Out #23 · The 40 best restaurants in Los Angeles you need to try right now
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Rank 39. Spago
Californian New American
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Rank 40. Vespertine
Contemporary
If you want dinner that feels more like performance art than a meal, this two Michelin-starred tasting menu in Culver City is your place. The chef runs the whole thing inside a building locals call "The Waffle," which looks like a set piece from a film nobody greenlit yet. Inside, the food is visually stunning and genuinely strange in the best way. The crowd is dressed up and trying very hard not to look impressed.
- Michelin Guide 2 Stars
- Bon Appétit 2018 · America's Best New Restaurants
- Los Angeles Times 2025 · #33 · The 101 best restaurants in Los Angeles
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Rank 41. Élephante
Southern Mediterranean
Yes, it's a rooftop restaurant in Santa Monica with ocean views, and yes, the crowd leans heavily toward people who spent too long picking their outfit. But the kitchen here actually delivers, turning out small Southern Mediterranean plates that are worth sharing and genuinely surprising. The sunset room, all natural wood and stone with the Pacific in the background, makes it hard to argue with whoever dragged you here.
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A casual Indian spot a block off the Promenade that actually earns your attention. The clay tandoor does real work on the proteins, and the dosas are the move, especially the masala version stuffed with spiced potato. The crowd skews beachy-casual, the kind of people who wandered off the Third Street bustle and stayed for dessert, which here gets genuinely weird in the best way. Worth it.
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Rank 43. Hakata Izakaya Hero
Japanese
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- Los Angeles Times 2025 · #72 · The 101 best restaurants in Los Angeles
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Rank 44. The Lobster
Seafood
Perched right above the Santa Monica Pier with views that make you forget whatever you were stressed about, this is a proper seafood restaurant that actually lives up to its setting. The crowd skews tourist-adjacent but the kitchen takes the lobster seriously enough that locals keep coming back. Tables are close together and the pace is brisk, but when the food arrives, nobody's complaining.
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Rank 45. La Dolce Vita
Italian
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Rank 46. Fia Steak
Italian Steakhouse
An Italian steakhouse tucked into a sprawling courtyard wrapped in pine trees and strung with lights, Fia is the kind of place that makes you feel like you stumbled into the best party in Santa Monica. The crowd leans toward effortlessly dressed people celebrating something, or pretending they are. The menu looks straightforward until it quietly surprises you, which is very LA of it.
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Rank 47. Milo & Olive
Wood-fired Pizza
Wood-fired pizza done properly is the whole point at this bright Santa Monica neighborhood spot, and the counter seats are prime real estate for watching the team stretch crusts thin as paper and load them with restraint. It draws the kind of locals who bring their own tote bags and know the farmers' market vendors by name. Weekend brunch pulls a crowd too. Save room for the wood-fired pound cake with honey and whipped cream, which somehow steals the whole meal.
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Rank 49. Dante
Upscale Italian
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Rank 50. Chulita
Oaxacan Mexican
A sunny, mod Oaxacan taco spot a short walk from the Venice beach crowd, Chulita is the kind of place where flip-flops feel totally appropriate and mezcal before noon feels almost responsible. The tortillas are made in house, the barbacoa is genuinely tender, and the whole vibe skews California-bright without losing its Mexican roots. The room fills with exactly the laid-back, golden-hour crowd you'd expect from this zip code.
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Rank 51. Saltie Girl
Seafood
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Rank 53. Lulu
Seasonal New American
Tucked into the courtyard of the Hammer Museum in Westside LA, Lulu is a casual daytime restaurant where Alice Waters has had a hand in shaping the menu, which should tell you everything about the kitchen's priorities. Fresh produce stacked around the room isn't decoration, it's a preview. The menu shifts daily with whatever's good right now, drawing a Brentwood-adjacent crowd who somehow make linen look effortless on a Tuesday lunch.
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Rank 54. Sushi Note
Omakase Sushi
A compact omakase spot on Ventura that punches well above its strip-mall address. The room is moody and a little art-forward, the kind of place where the regulars know to let the chef lead and trust that every piece of nigiri has been cut to order with real intention. An unusually good wine list keeps things from feeling too reverent. Wear something that says you thought about it, but not a suit.
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Rank 55. Fat + Flour
Bakery
- Los Angeles Times 2025 · #42 · The 101 best restaurants in Los Angeles
- James Beard Awards 2025 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Pastry Chef or Baker · Nicole Rucker
- James Beard Awards 2024 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Pastry Chef or Baker · Nicole Rucker
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Rank 56. Juliet
Contemporary French
Culver City's answer to a proper French bistro, Juliet pulls off that rare trick of feeling genuinely chic without making you feel underdressed. The patio alone is worth the trip, and the open kitchen keeps things lively. The crowd leans creative industry, nice jeans, maybe a blazer. The menu runs classic French with a light California touch, and the wine list is deep enough to keep things interesting all the way through dessert, which you should not skip.
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Rank 57. Providence
Seafood
Providence holds two Michelin stars and earns every one of them, which is a sentence you rarely get to say without cringing. It's a serious seafood tasting menu on Melrose, the kind where you dress up and surrender the evening to the kitchen. Michael Cimarusti has been doing this for years, and the sourcing of wild-caught American seafood alone would make it worth the splurge. The room is full of people who saved up for this and have no regrets.
- Michelin Guide 3 Stars
- Forbes Travel Guide Forbes Four Star
- 50 Best 2025 · Michael Cimarusti · Chefs' Choice Award
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Rank 58. Shunji
Sushi
An omakase counter in Santa Monica where the chef has been doing this long enough that regulars just nod and let him cook. The room is quiet, minimal, and serious without being precious, the crowd dressed like they knew exactly where they were going. The smaller counter is the one you want. Prices are commitment-level, but the nigiri and the composed bites before it justify the math pretty convincingly.
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Rank 59. Killer Noodle
Ramen Noodles
Killer Noodle is a casual ramen shop on Sawtelle that does one thing: tan tan ramen, a mashup of Japanese tantanmen and spicy Sichuan dan dan noodles. You pick your spice level, and if you go all six out of six, the pitcher of water at your table stops being a courtesy and starts being a lifeline. The room is cheerful and red, full of people who thought they could handle it. Spoiler: they cannot.
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Rank 61. République
Southern European Mediterranean
République is an all-day restaurant and bakery in a stunning converted space, all soaring brick walls and skylights, that makes you feel like you stumbled into a very stylish European cathedral. Mornings bring serious pastry lines; evenings fill the room with the kind of well-dressed Angelenos who somehow look effortless. The Southern European menu is tight and ingredient-forward, and the kitchen runs it with the confidence of a place that's been around forever.
- James Beard Awards 2023 · Winner · Outstanding Pastry Chef or Baker · Margarita Manzke
- World Culinary Awards 2025 · Nominee · North America's Best Brunch Venue
- Time Out The best bakeries in America
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Rank 62. Osteria Mozza
Italian
Nancy Silverton's Michelin-starred osteria on Melrose is the kind of place that's been packed since day one and shows no signs of calming down. The mozzarella bar alone is worth the trip, and the pastas are quietly extraordinary. Dark wood, marble counters, and a room full of people who booked two weeks out and dressed accordingly. Grab a seat at the bar if you can, and let the antipasti do the talking.
- Michelin Guide 1 Star
- Wine Enthusiast 2024 · Forward 50 Restaurants
- Time Out #11 · The 40 best restaurants in Los Angeles you need to try right now
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Rank 63. Charcoal Venice
Steakhouse
A Venice steakhouse where nearly everything gets cooked over open fire, which sounds simple until you're sitting in a sleek concrete-and-booth room realizing this is not your dad's barbecue. The crowd skews local and linen-free, the kind of people who know good meat but wouldn't be caught dead in a stuffy steakhouse. The bar runs a busy happy hour, and the seasonal sides punch well above their weight.
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Rank 64. Barbacoa Ramirez
Hidalgo-Style Mexican
- Los Angeles Times 2025 · The 101 Best Restaurants in California
- Los Angeles Times 2025 · #17 · The 101 best restaurants in Los Angeles
- Los Angeles Times 2024 · Lamb barbacoa taco · The 101 Best Tacos in Los Angeles
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Rank 66. Toranj Restaurant
Persian
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Rank 67. Lucia
Caribbean
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Rank 68. Lumière
French
Tucked inside the Fairmont Century Plaza, Lumière is a proper French brasserie where you can eat steak frites without feeling like you need to justify it to anyone. The room draws a relaxed hotel crowd plus locals who know a good thing, all there for classics done right. The staff actually know the menu and will steer you well, which in LA is not something you take for granted.
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Rank 69. Tempura Endo
Tempura Japanese
Tempura omakase sounds like a niche you didn't know you needed until you're sitting at the copper counter watching the chef fry scallops one at a time into something almost too delicate to eat. It's a tasting menu situation, so dress accordingly and budget accordingly. Counter seats are the move, the tables feel like a consolation prize. Very few places in the country do this, and this one does it quietly, seriously, and well.
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Rank 70. Alta Adams
Southern
A Southern comfort restaurant on the west side that people genuinely drive across town for, which says everything. The back patio with string lights and climbing vines is the kind of spot that makes a weeknight feel like an occasion. Portions are generous, the crowd is mixed and happy, and the fried chicken comes with a hot sauce that earns the warning. Save room for the coconut cake.
- Eater The All-Time Eater 38
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
- Los Angeles Times 2025 · #44 · The 101 best restaurants in Los Angeles
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Rank 71. Dear Jane's
Seafood
Seafood done old-school and unapologetically big, right on the Marina del Rey waterfront with a glass wall full of bobbing boats. Dear Jane's leans into Continental classics and oversized portions, with caviar showing up like it owns the place. The crowd tends toward date-nighters and anniversary couples dressed up enough to feel like the splurge was worth it. Cocktails riff on famous Janes, so prepare to argue about which one you are.
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Rank 72. IMA
Japanese
A Beverly Hills hot pot sanctuary where the whole point is A5 Wagyu cooked at your table, sukiyaki and shabu-shabu style. The room is sleek and quietly intimate, the kind of place where couples and expense-account regulars alike settle in for the long haul. Meals unfold in courses, from delicate cold starters to rich, silky beef, with a truffle rice porridge at the end that makes you deeply glad you saved room.
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Rank 73. Gwen
Steakhouse
Part Hollywood butcher shop by day, Michelin-starred steakhouse by night, Gwen is the rare place that pulls off both without blinking. Curtis Stone's Art Deco dining room, all crystal chandeliers and fireplace glow, fills with the kind of crowd that knows the difference between a good cut and a great one. The wood-fired steaks are the main event, sourced and aged with real seriousness, and the chef's counter is worth requesting if you can get it.
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Rank 75. Asanebo
Sushi
Asanebo is a longtime Studio City sushi spot that's earned its loyal following by simply being reliably good, which turns out to be harder than it sounds. The menu is massive, almost comically so, but your move is to skip the five pages of decisions and let the chef guide you through omakase. The room mixes spare Japanese minimalism with Hello Kitty on the shelf, and the crowd looks exactly like people who've had a standing reservation here for years.
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Rank 76. Taste of Tehran
Persian
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Rank 77. Leona's
Fusion Japanese
Leona's pulls off the rare trick of being genuinely good-looking and genuinely good to eat at, which in LA is basically a miracle. It's a high-end Japanese fusion spot on Ventura that draws the creative-class crowd, the kind of people who look like they're in the industry but you're not sure which one. The menu mashes up Japanese technique with whatever it feels like that day, and it works.
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Rank 78. Meteora
Creative
Walking into this Michelin-starred tasting menu spot on Melrose feels like stumbling into a fever dream your most artistic friend designed. Moody, overgrown, and genuinely a little otherworldly, it matches the food, which is live-fire and wild-sourced and quietly unlike anything else in LA. The crowd leans creative-industry, dressed like they mean it. Go if you want a meal you'll actually remember.
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Rank 79. Avra
Greek
Avra brings Greek island energy to Beverly Hills without trying too hard, which is somehow the most Beverly Hills thing possible. It's a big, airy seafood restaurant where you pick your fish from the day's catch and they cook it how you want, and the whole room feels like it's full of people who know a good thing when they see it. The kind of crowd that orders confidently and never checks the price.
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Rank 80. Hatchet Hall
Southern
Hatchet Hall is a Southern comfort restaurant in Culver City that feels like a backyard cookout somehow landed a liquor license and a really good kitchen. The patio packs in groups when the weather cooperates, and the dining room fills with the kind of regulars who know exactly what they're ordering. The menu swings wide across the South, heavy on biscuits, pork, and vegetables that could honestly carry a whole meal on their own.
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Rank 82. Pizzeria Mozza
Pizza
Nancy Silverton's Bib Gourmand pizzeria has been packing in Angelenos for years, and the room earns it. The sunny yellow exterior and casual wood tables set the vibe: this is a serious pizza spot that doesn't take itself seriously. The pies come out with those puffy, blistered edges that make you forget every sad slice you've ever eaten, and the seasonal desserts are worth staying for. Creative toppings, good sourcing, and a crowd that clearly comes back often.
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Rank 83. Matū
Wagyu Steakhouse
Wagyu at prices that won't make you put the menu down and quietly leave, that's the move at Matū, a Beverly Hills steakhouse that manages to feel romantic without being ridiculous about it. The beef comes from New Zealand, it's wood-fired, and it's genuinely as good as it sounds. The crowd leans date-night rather than expense-account, which keeps the whole vibe warmer than you'd expect for 90210.
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Rank 84. Orla by Michael Mina
Refined Mediterranean
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Rank 85. OyBar
Japanese Cocktail Bar
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Rank 86. Marea
Coastal Italian
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Rank 87. Ardor
Californian New American
Ardor is the hotel restaurant at the West Hollywood EDITION, and it looks exactly like what would happen if a luxury spa decided to get into the dinner business: white velvet booths, soft neutrals, enough plants to make you feel virtuous before you've ordered anything. The menu leans vegetable-forward but still feeds a real appetite, and the room fills with the kind of guests who genuinely can't tell you what things cost.
- Spirited Awards 2024 · Regional Honoree · Best U.S. Hotel Bar – U.S. West
- Spirited Awards 2024 · Regional Honoree · Best U.S. Hotel Bar – U.S. West
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
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Rank 88. Lalibela Ethiopian Restaurant
Ethiopian
Lalibela is a Bib Gourmand Ethiopian spot on Fairfax in the heart of Little Ethiopia, and it feels less like a restaurant than someone's warm, unpretentious living room. The team lets the food do the work, arriving on big silver platters lined with injera and best attacked by a group. Bring friends, order widely, and eat with your hands like everyone else in the room is already doing.
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Rank 89. chi SPACCA
Steakhouse Italian
Nancy Silverton's meat-forward Italian den on Melrose is basically a love letter to fire and fat, and it's hard to argue with the logic. The menu leans hard into big wood-oven proteins and bold seasoning, with a wine list that reads like a tour of Italy. The room is small and loud in the best way, packed with people who ordered confidently and have no regrets. Dress like you mean it.
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
- Los Angeles Times 2025 · The 101 Best Restaurants in California
- Time Out #14 · The 40 best restaurants in Los Angeles you need to try right now
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Rank 90. The Musso & Frank Grill
Hollywood
- Esquire 2025 · Martini · The Best Martinis in America
- Esquire 2023 · Musso + Frank Martini · The Best Martinis in America
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Rank 91. Jon & Vinny's
Italian
Jon & Vinny's is a sunny, casual Italian-American café on Fairfax that's been packed since the day it opened, and it shows no signs of slowing down. The long counter overlooks an open kitchen running a wood-fired grill and blazing oven, and the whole room feels like a neighborhood spot that happened to become everybody's neighborhood spot. Order the pizza, sure, but the house-made pasta is quietly the move. Bib Gourmand, if you care about that kind of thing.
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Rank 92. Hokey Pokey LA
New Zealand Dessert
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Rank 93. Nardò Culver City
Southern Italian
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Rank 94. Kali
Steakhouse
A Michelin-starred steakhouse on Melrose that went full Old Hollywood and somehow pulled it off. Red carpet, curtained dining room, serious cocktail bar up front, the whole bit. The crowd skews first-date and special-occasion, dressed just enough to feel like it counts. The steak is the point, the sides are not an afterthought, and dessert actually earns its place on the table.
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Rank 95. Destroyer
Contemporary
A daytime cafe in Culver City's architecturally weird Hayden Tract that takes breakfast way more seriously than you expected. The room is stark and minimal, which just means there's nothing to distract from the food, and the food rewards your full attention. The crowd skews creative-industry types who clearly did their research. Go for coffee and end up staying through lunch because the plates keep arriving looking like modern art.
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
- Los Angeles Times 2025 · #14 · The 101 best restaurants in Los Angeles
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Rank 96. Petit Trois
Bistro French
A tiny French bistro that runs noon to late night and never seems to slow down. The counter is tight, the room is narrow, and somehow everyone in there looks like they're having the time of their life. The cooking is pure bistro canon, done seriously, while French hip-hop plays in the background because of course it does. The omelet alone is worth the trip. Bring cash and patience, leave impressed.
- Eater 2015 · The Best New Restaurants in America
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
- Time Out #24 · The 40 best restaurants in Los Angeles you need to try right now
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Rank 97. Lum Ka Naad
Thai
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Rank 98. Connie and Ted's
Seafood
A lively seafood joint in West Hollywood that somehow feels like a New England fish shack, right down to the shell-littered parking lot and walls covered in nautical junk. The raw bar draws the casual-but-discerning crowd, the kind who know their oysters and aren't afraid to get their hands messy with a lobster roll. Sustainable, wild-caught fish from both coasts means the menu actually changes with what's running.
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Rank 100. Kuya Lord
Filipino
- James Beard Awards 2024 · Winner · Best Chef: California · Lord Maynard Llera
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