The Top 100 Places to Eat and Drink Near Kismet Rotisserie
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Rank 2. HomeState
Tex-Mex
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- Esquire 2025 · The Best New Restaurants in America
- Eater 2025 · The Best New Restaurants in America
- Eater Best Comeback · The 2025 Eater Los Angeles Award Winners
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Rank 5. Perle Restaurant
French
Perle occupies a snug corner of downtown Pasadena with mahogany tables and coffered ceilings that whisper old Paris without shouting it. Chef Dean Yasharian executes classical bistro cooking—Burgundy snails in herbed butter, duck à l'orange, a Grand Marnier soufflé—with the restraint of someone who understands that some wheels need no reinvention.
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
- Los Angeles Times 2025 · #89 · The 101 best restaurants in Los Angeles
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Rank 6. Union
Italian
In Old Pasadena's brick-walled dining room, chef-driven pastas made fresh daily arrive in bold, shareable portions—roasted carrots on labneh, a platter-sized spaghetti and meatballs, torchetti wound with pork ragù and ricotta. The cooking speaks without hesitation, and the locally sourced ingredients taste like they mean it.
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Rank 7. Capri Club
Italian
- Esquire 2023 · The Best Bars in America
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best U.S. Cocktail Bar – U.S. West
- Spirited Awards 2024 · Regional Honoree · Best U.S. Cocktail Bar – U.S. West
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Rank 8. Bone Kettle
Southeast Asian
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Rank 9. Backbone
European
- LAist 2025 · Roasted duck breast · Best Bites
- Los Angeles Times 2025 · #90 · The 101 best restaurants in Los Angeles
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Rank 10. Agnes Restaurant & Cheesery
American
You enter through a cheesery lined with bottles, past owners who understand that good food begins with good cheese and wine. The open hearth commands the room while the kitchen cycles through fried chicken with sambal honey and house-made pastas that taste like they know their source.
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Rank 11. Santa Canela
Mexican Bakery
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Rank 12. Amiga Amore
Mexican/Italian
- James Beard Awards 2024 · Semifinalist · Emerging Chef · Danielle Duran-Zecca and Alessandro Zecca
- James Beard Awards 2025 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: California · Danielle Duran Zecca
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Rank 13. Queen's Raw Bar & Grill
Seafood
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Rank 14. Belle's
Bakery
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Rank 15. King Taco
Mexican
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Rank 16. Joy
Taiwanese
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Rank 17. Arturo's Taco Truck
Mexican
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Rank 18. Chifa
Chinese fusion Peruvian
Peruvian-Chinese fusion arrives in Eagle Rock through a team unafraid of velvet chairs and zebra stripes, pulling family recipes into a menu that moves from delicate sea bream to char siu pork cheek kissed by wood fire. The lomo saltado—filet mignon and onions glazed in umami gravy atop fries—arrives as the evening's inevitable crescendo.
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Rank 19. Yang’s Kitchen
Asian-American
- Time Out The best Chinese restaurants in America
- James Beard Awards 2024 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: California · Christian Yang
- The New York Times The 25 Best Restaurants in Los Angeles Right Now
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Rank 20. Panda Inn
Chinese
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Rank 21. Hippo
Cal-Ital Italian
A former post office in Highland Park now houses a Cal-Ital kitchen with exposed beams and an open fire, where crispy-crusted focaccia arrives unbidden and a grilled chicken with aji panca and almond-wood smoke justifies the warm, convivial room equally for two or ten.
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Rank 22. Dunsmoor
Southern
Two open-flame ovens anchor this Glassell Park dining room where Southern cooking—oysters, rib eyes, braised greens—emerges charred and smoky from the coals. Communal tables and a counter facing the kitchen deliver the spectacle of fire, while a quieter wine bar in back offers refuge from the heat.
- Esquire 2023 · The Best New Restaurants in America
- James Beard Awards 2026 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: California · Brian Dunsmoor
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
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Rank 23. Villa's Tacos
Mexican
Smoke curls across a Highland Park lot where Victor Villa's brick taqueria draws crowds for blue corn masa layered with refried beans, guacamole, cotija, and melted Monterey Jack. The signature queso taco arrives messy and filling, its heat amplified by homemade salsas that demand respect.
- Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand
- Los Angeles Times 2024 · Pierna de pollo queso taco · The 101 Best Tacos in Los Angeles
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Rank 24. Rosty
Peruvian
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Rank 25. Mini Kabob
Armenian Middle Eastern
- Los Angeles Times 2025 · The 101 Best Restaurants in California
- Time Out #31 · The 40 best restaurants in Los Angeles you need to try right now
- Los Angeles Times 2025 · #46 · The 101 best restaurants in Los Angeles
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Rank 26. Evil Cooks
Mexican
- Food & Wine 2025 · McSatan · Best Dishes Our Editors Ate This Year
- James Beard Awards 2024 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: California · Alex Garcia and Elvia Garcia
- James Beard Awards 2025 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: California · Elvia Garcia and Alex Garcia
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Rank 27. Zhengyalov Hatz
Armenian Bakery
At this spare Armenian bakery, chefs work dough and griddle with the efficiency of ritual, stuffing flatbreads with a dozen chopped herbs—sorrel, spinach, scallions, beet leaves—that turn the interior a vibrant forest green and taste at once sweet, sour, sharp, and alive. One serves as a snack; several become a meal.
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Rank 28. Panda Inn
Chinese
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Rank 29. Mariscos El Faro
Sinaloa-Style
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Rank 30. Sichuan Impression
Sichuan Chinese
A bright Sichuan kitchen where the hallmarks—tea-smoked duck, mapo tofu, fish in rattan pepper broth—arrive suffused with numbing oils and chopped chilies that build in layers. The airy room with its big windows lets you see what you're getting into, which is both the point and the pleasure.
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Rank 31. Lunasia Dim Sum House
Chinese
Lunasia's elegant dining room forgoes the traditional cart, instead relying on attentive servers to ferry delicate dim sum—lobster noodle rolls with sweetened soy, gossamer rice wrappers—to your table with theatrical precision. The kitchen's discipline shows in every dumpling, whether you finish with a yolk-rich egg tart or a bowl of minced pork congee.
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Rank 32. Barra Santos
Portuguese
At this tiny Cypress Park counter, a chef works Portuguese family recipes with casual precision: bacalhau fritters arrive crispy-edged and tender, charred cabbage settles into white beans with Iberico pork and garlic butter, whole branzino swims in a verdant sauce of pumpkin seed and serrano. No reservations, but the bar seats offer an unobstructed view of the organized chaos that produces it.
- James Beard Awards 2024 · Semifinalist · Best New Restaurant
- James Beard Awards 2026 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Restaurateur · Holly Fox and Adam Weisblatt - Last Word Hospitality
- James Beard Awards 2025 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: California · Melissa López
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Rank 33. HomeState
Tex-Mex
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Rank 34. Newport Seafood
Noodles
At Newport Seafood, the menu spans four Southeast Asian traditions in pursuit of one obsession: seafood prepared with salt, heat, and restraint. Chewy rice noodles studded with fish, salt-and-pepper crab, beef loc lac cooked with precision—the kitchen moves between cuisines with the ease of someone who understands them all. Portions demand company.
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Rank 35. Angel’s Tijuana Tacos
Tijuana-Style
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Rank 36. Saucy Chick
Mexican/Indian
- LAist 2023 · Birra de Chivo Bowl · Best Bites
- Los Angeles Times 2024 · Birria queso taco · The 101 Best Tacos in Los Angeles
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Rank 37. Bistro Na's
Manchu Chinese
Behind a strip-mall facade in Temple City, an expansive dining room in red and gold serves royal Manchu cuisine from the Qing dynasty's imperial kitchens. Signature dishes—shrimp fried whole and crisp, black pepper Angus beef—suggest the place favors opulence over restraint, best tackled with a group.
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
- Eater The 38 Essential Restaurants in Los Angeles
- Los Angeles Times 2025 · #88 · The 101 best restaurants in Los Angeles
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Rank 38. Henry's Cuisine
Cantonese Chinese
A modest storefront on Valley Boulevard where homestyle Cantonese cooking persists with quiet confidence, lobster painted silver and gold adorning the walls as a hint at what the kitchen does best. Salted-egg shrimp arrives delicate and bright; the deep-fried pig's feet crackle like chips; mustard greens with garlic offer a soothing counterpoint. This is cooking for people who know what they want.
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
- Los Angeles Times 2025 · The 101 Best Restaurants in California
- Time Out #34 · The 40 best restaurants in Los Angeles you need to try right now
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Rank 39. Taqueria Frontera
Tijuana-Style Mexican
- The New York Times 2025 · Taco al Pastor · The Best Restaurant Dishes We Ate Across the U.S.
- Eater The 38 Essential Restaurants in Los Angeles
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Rank 40. TAI ER Sichuan Cuisine
Sichuan Chinese
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Rank 42. Chengdu Taste
Chinese
No temperance here: Chengdu Taste brings uncompromising Sichuan heat, where toothpick lamb arrives cumin-dark and chili-bright, crispy beef stakes its claim as rival, and even shredded potato sings with precision and fire. The kitchen doesn't dial it back, and neither should you.
- Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand
- Time Out #36 · The 40 best restaurants in Los Angeles you need to try right now
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Rank 43. Moo's Craft Barbecue
Barbecue
In a handsome Lincoln Heights room outfitted with craft beers, Andrew and Michelle Muñoz smoke briskets to a mahogany crust and stuff sausages with cheddar and jalapeños in the style of Austin pitmasters. The sides—creamed mac and cheese, banana pudding—fill out the plate with the same care applied to the meat. Come early; the best items disappear.
- James Beard Awards 2023 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: California · Andrew and Michelle Muñoz
- James Beard Awards 2026 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: California · Andrew Muñoz and Michelle Muñoz
- Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand
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Rank 44. Sushi Kisen
Sushi
Sushi Kisen operates with the controlled chaos of a Tokyo counter, rice yielding and generously proportioned, fish arriving fresh from Japan twice weekly. Regulars time visits for Friday's shipment; the place rewards efficiency over ceremony and pocket-friendly pricing over pretense.
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Rank 45. Chef Tony Dim Sum
Dim Sum Chinese
Tony He applies decades of dim sum expertise to a stripped-down Arcadia kitchen where steam rises constantly over shrimp dumplings crowned with roe and lotus-wrapped sticky rice. No carts, no pretense—just precise handmade bites ordered fresh.
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Rank 46. Dai Ho
Taiwanese
A narrow Taiwanese counter in Temple City that opens at 11:30 and closes hours later, drawing lines of regulars who know the rhythm: scan the wall menu, order quickly, eat faster. The fiery beef noodle soup and sesame dry noodles arrive in minutes, their depth belying the speed of service. You'll be gone in twenty minutes, making room for the next shift of hungry eaters.
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Rank 47. Thunderbolt
Southern-Inspired
- The Pinnacle Guide 2 Pins
- 50 Best 2025 · Sustainable Bar Award
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Top 10 Nominee · Best U.S. Cocktail Bar
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An open-air shed in Lincoln Heights serves tender stewed meats and broths that taste like memory—carne en su jugo arrives as a complex, meaty soup of tomatillos and beans, while in-house tortillas cradle barbacoa in fierce tomato salsa. The limited menu and small staff's warmth suggest a kitchen mining something deeper than technique.
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Rank 49. Ipoh Kopitiam
Malaysian
A Malaysian café that draws lines from open to close, Chef Kenji Tang's succinct menu pivots from the neighborhood's Chinese norm with poached Hainanese chicken served cold alongside three sauces and seasoned rice, layered curry matched with flaky roti canai, and wok-fired char kway teow—each plate evidence of discipline in executing classics without flourish or apology.
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Rank 50. Maru Coffee
Korean-Inspired
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Rank 51. Firstborn
Contemporary Chinese
Anthony Wang remixes Chinese-American tradition with disciplined technique—tender tofu dumplings, aged duck with persimmon—in a bright, open kitchen designed for sharing. Desserts like vanilla sponge with red bean sauce suggest a chef thinking beyond the obvious.
- Esquire 2025 · Bartender of the Year · Kenzo Han
- World Culinary Awards 2025 · Nominee · North America's Best New Restaurant
- Punch 2025 · Best New Bartenders · Kenzo Han
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Rank 52. Delmy's Pupusas
Salvadoran
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Rank 54. Providence
Seafood
Michael Cimarusti's tasting menu at Providence draws from pristine wild-caught seafood and classical technique, each course arriving with the fastidiousness of a jeweler arranging stones. A soft-poached egg trembling with uni, a lobster mousse tartare set in crab beurre blanc—the meal never falters in its commitment to clarity and restraint.
- Michelin Guide 3 Stars
- Forbes Travel Guide Forbes Four Star
- 50 Best 2025 · Michael Cimarusti · Chefs' Choice Award
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Rank 55. Holy Basil
Thai
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Rank 58. Loreto
Seafood Mexican
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- Spirited Awards 2026 · Top 10 Nominee · Best New U.S. Cocktail Bar
- 50 Best 2026 · #68 · North America's 50 Best Bars
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Rank 60. Morihiro
Omakase Sushi
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Rank 61. Donna's
American Italian
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Top 10 Nominee · U.S. Bartender of the Year · Linda Douglas
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best U.S. Restaurant Bar – U.S. West
- Spirited Awards 2024 · Regional Honoree · Best New U.S. Cocktail Bar – U.S. West
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Rank 62. Sea Harbour
Cantonese Chinese
The dim sum arrives from the kitchen rather than a cart, each dumpling and bun steaming with purpose at this Cantonese standby in Rosemead. The preserved salty egg bun breaks open to reveal a molten yolk; the seafood dishes earn their reputation through exacting technique. What might coast on nostalgia instead commands respect through consistent execution.
- Chinese Restaurant Awards 2025 · #6 · Elite 30 Canada
- Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand
- James Beard Awards 2022 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: California · Tony Ho
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Rank 63. Quarter Sheets
Pan-style Pizza
Echo Park's Quarter Sheets serves thick, baked-to-order pan pizzas with assertive sauce and quality toppings—the pimento grove, spiked with 'nduja and olives, exemplifies their approach. The vinyl-lined room buzzes with the kind of casual confidence that draws lines, but Hannah Ziskin's rotating pastries, anchored by a signature Princess cake, justify the wait as much as the pizza does.
- Food & Wine 2023 · Best New Chefs · Hannah Ziskin
- James Beard Awards 2026 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Pastry Chef or Baker · Hannah Ziskin
- The New York Times 2023 · The Restaurant List
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Rank 65. Restaurant Ki
Contemporary Korean
Chef Ki Kim's ten-seat Korean tasting menu hides behind an unmarked entrance in downtown Los Angeles, rewarding the hunt with playful dishes like truffle gimbap and charred snap peas with fish roe. Confident cooking threads global ingredients through refined courses, from barbecued squab to mushroom ice cream.
- Michelin Guide 1 Star
- World Culinary Awards 2025 · Nominee · North America's Best New Restaurant
- James Beard Awards 2026 · Nominee · Best New Restaurant
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Rank 66. M Joy
Chinese
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Rank 67. Kato
Taiwanese Chinese
Jonathan Yao's tasting menu at Kato announces itself with conviction: fish maw arrives with crab-shell vinegar and caviar; spice-crusted duck nestles into fluffy bao; pig ears blaze with chili oil. The Row DTLA dining room, all polished concrete and open kitchen, becomes an austere stage for cooking that draws boldly from his Taiwanese roots and refuses restraint.
- Michelin Guide 1 Star
- 50 Best 2025 · #26 · North America's 50 Best Restaurants
- James Beard Awards 2026 · Nominee · Outstanding Wine and Other Beverages Program
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Rank 68. Kismet
Persian Middle Eastern
Kismet's Persian small plates—crispy phyllo pies, mushroom skewers with cashew cream—taste lighter than air, seasonal vegetables and bright spices never heavy. The staff glides through the room with the ease of a neighborhood institution that happens to cook at Michelin level.
- James Beard Awards 2026 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: California · Sarah Hymanson and Sara Kramer
- Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand
- Los Angeles Times 2025 · The 101 Best Restaurants in California
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Rank 69. Morihiro
Sushi
Chef Morihiro Onodera's sushi counter in a contemporary space traces LA's omakase lineage back through composed dishes and nigiri, with rice milled on-site and fish sourced from Japan. The meal closes with matcha and sweets served in ceramics he threw himself—a gesture that transforms ingredient precision into something intimate.
- Michelin Guide 1 Star
- Los Angeles Times 2025 · The 101 Best Restaurants in California
- Los Angeles Times 2025 · #7 · The 101 best restaurants in Los Angeles
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Rank 70. Baby Bistro
French
- The New York Times 2025 · The Restaurant List
- Wine Enthusiast 2025 · Top 50 New Restaurants
- Los Angeles Times 2025 · #51 · The 101 best restaurants in Los Angeles
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- Punch 2025 · Real Charmer Daiquiri · Our Favorite Cocktails
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best U.S. Bar Team – U.S. West
- Spirited Awards 2025 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best New U.S. Cocktail Bar – U.S. West
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Rank 72. Maru Coffee
Korean-Inspired
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Rank 73. majordōmo
Asian
A converted warehouse in Chinatown channels controlled chaos through an open kitchen where Asian flavors collide with purpose. Melon salad in fish sauce vinaigrette, spicy fusilli with kimchi and pork jowl—the menu pirouettes through snacks and noodles with the confidence of a place that knows what it's doing. Counter seats reward the persistent walk-in; everything else requires strategy.
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
- Los Angeles Times 2025 · #58 · The 101 best restaurants in Los Angeles
- Bon Appétit 2018 · America's Best New Restaurants
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Rank 74. Baroo
Modern Korean
At a sleek concrete counter in downtown Los Angeles, Kwang Uh and Mina Park orchestrate a tasting menu that pivots between Korean tradition and precise technique. A seared Hokkaido scallop swims in watercress sauce studded with seaweed jelly; silky black cod arrives in a wide bowl where buttermilk is poured tableside. The meal reads as composed and assured, uninterested in noise.
- James Beard Awards 2026 · Nominee · Best Chef: California · Kwang Uh
- Eater The All-Time Eater 38
- James Beard Awards 2025 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: California · Kwang Uh
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Rank 75. Tsubaki
Japanese
At this Echo Park izakaya, exposed brick and a convivial layout set the stage for straightforward Japanese cooking that doesn't announce itself. Kanpachi crudo arrives with ume ponzu; tempura and grilled skewers—chicken oysters, scallops—emerge without pretense. The sake list rewards curiosity, and everything invites sharing among the table.
- Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand
- Los Angeles Times 2025 · The 101 Best Restaurants in California
- Los Angeles Times 2025 · #37 · The 101 best restaurants in Los Angeles
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Rank 76. Gwen
Steakhouse
By day a butcher shop dealing in humanely raised meats; by night, a glittering dining room where crystal chandeliers and a fireplace preside over wood-fired steaks and house-made charcuterie. The kitchen moves with purpose—lobster ravioli with confit leeks, smoked beets with leek ash yogurt—and a seat at the counter puts you in its thrall.
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Rank 77. Pine & Crane
Asian
A spare café across from Sunset Triangle serves serious Taiwanese cooking in a brick-and-concrete room that belies its ambitions. The three-cup Jidori chicken in clay pot and vegetarian mapo tofu show equal care.
- Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand
- The New York Times The 25 Best Restaurants in Los Angeles Right Now
- Los Angeles Times 2025 · #76 · The 101 best restaurants in Los Angeles
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Rank 78. El Atacor Restaurant
Mexican
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Rank 79. Pho Ngoon
Noodles
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Rank 80. Holbox
Coastal Mexican
Gilbert Cetina works a counter inside Mercado La Paloma with the precision of a jeweler, coaxing impossible brightness from aguachile and ceviche with seafood so fresh it arrives still trembling. His grilled lobster and house-made tortillas, dressed in an arsenal of salsas, suggest that restraint and impeccable sourcing need no fanfare.
- Michelin Guide 1 Star
- 50 Best 2025 · #42 · North America's 50 Best Restaurants
- James Beard Awards 2026 · Nominee · Outstanding Chef · Gilberto Cetina
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Rank 81. Found Oyster
Seafood
A sparse corner bar in East Hollywood where impeccably sourced seafood—sea urchin, razor clams, Maine scallops from the owner's family farm—needs only olive oil and lemon to speak for itself. The kitchen understands restraint, letting lobster rolls and trout dip announce their own excellence. No ocean view, no pretense, just a full house every night.
- James Beard Awards 2026 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Restaurateur · Holly Fox and Adam Weisblatt - Last Word Hospitality
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
- The New York Times The 25 Best Restaurants in Los Angeles Right Now
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Rank 82. The Belvedere
French
The dining room at The Belvedere maintains the formal grandeur of old Hollywood without apology, all starched linens and architectural restraint. It is the kind of place where the ritual of a long meal feels less like indulgence than inheritance.
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Rank 83. Bar Flores
Latin
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Rank 84. Azizam
Persian
- Bon Appétit 2024 · America's Best New Restaurants
- The New York Times 2024 · The Restaurant List
- Esquire 2024 · The Best New Restaurants in America
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Rank 86. Camelia
French Japanese
- Bon Appétit 2025 · America's Best New Restaurants
- Esquire 2024 · The Best New Restaurants in America
- The New York Times 2024 · The Restaurant List
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Rank 87. Somni
Spanish
Chef Aitor Zabala has restored Somni into a Catalan dream of meticulous small plates—mussel escabeche, gazpacho, shiso tartare tempura—where kitchen and service move in perfect synchrony. The hushed dining room, anchored by a colorful bull's head, channels Spain through endless textural invention and restrained elegance.
- Michelin Guide 3 Stars
- The Infatuation 2025 · #2 · The Top-Rated New Restaurants
- Los Angeles Times 2025 · #50 · The 101 best restaurants in Los Angeles
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Rank 88. Komal
Mexican
In the Mercado Del Paloma, Chef Fátima Juárez coaxes depth from heirloom corn nixtamalized in-house, each quesadilla and tlacoya a small study in restraint and smoke. The fried plantain in black mole and short-rib tacos demand salsa applied with purpose, not timidity.
- James Beard Awards 2026 · Nominee · Emerging Chef · Fátima Juárez
- Bon Appétit 2025 · America's Best New Restaurants
- Esquire 2025 · The Best New Restaurants in America
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Rank 90. Hayato
Japanese
Chef Brandon Hayato Go orchestrates a single nightly seating where pristine seasonal ingredients—abalone, snow crab, corn—meet his curated Japanese pottery with unhurried precision. Reservations are nearly impossible; the sake list rewards those who secure them.
- Michelin Guide 2 Stars
- James Beard Awards 2023 · Nominee · Best Chef: California · Brandon Hayato Go
- Time Out #2 · The 40 best restaurants in Los Angeles you need to try right now
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Rank 91. Sushi Kaneyoshi
Sushi
Hidden in a downtown basement, Sushi Kaneyoshi unfolds with the restraint of a Japanese tea room—minimalist, serene, every element considered. Chef Yoshiyuki Inoue attends to particulars: hand-thrown pottery, seared ocean perch with crisp nori, warm oysters in soy, prawns dusted in yolk and umami. Nothing escapes notice, not even the miso soup.
- Michelin Guide 1 Star
- Los Angeles Times 2025 · #24 · The 101 best restaurants in Los Angeles
- Time Out #16 · The 40 best restaurants in Los Angeles you need to try right now
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Rank 92. Rasarumah
Malaysian
Chef Johnny Lee's Malaysian kitchen greets you with a battery of sambals and moves into shareable plates of pork jowl satay, charred okra, and beef rendang that arrives in a deep, creamy curry with buttery roti. The prices sit above neighborhood casual, but the portions and technique justify it—this is cooking that respects ingredients and tradition without apology.
- James Beard Awards 2026 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Restaurateur · Holly Fox and Adam Weisblatt - Last Word Hospitality
- Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand
- The Infatuation 2025 · #9 · LA’s Best New Restaurants
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Rank 93. Pijja Palace
Indian/Italian
- Eater 2022 · The Best New Restaurants in America
- Bon Appétit 2023 · America's Best New Restaurants
- James Beard Awards 2023 · Semifinalist · Best New Restaurant
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- Sprudgie Awards 2025 · Finalist · Best New Cafe
- US Coffee Championships 2025 · #2 · U.S. Brewers Cup · Christian Bak
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Rank 95. San Laurel
Modern Californian Spanish
A tenth-floor dining room with views of Disney Concert Hall serves modern California cuisine inflected with Spanish tradition, including a tomato tartare that subverts expectation. Chef José Andrés's team executes with precision across savory and dessert courses, the latter ethereal and balanced.
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Rank 96. Good Alley
Chinese Noodles
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Rank 98. Orsa & Winston
Contemporary
Chef Josef Centeno orchestrates Japanese and Italian influences through an open kitchen, where crudos meet uni-crowned rice porridge with unforced invention. Peak-season ingredients bend between Mediterranean and Japanese sensibilities, rarely settling into tradition.
- Michelin Guide 1 Star
- Los Angeles Times 2025 · #25 · The 101 best restaurants in Los Angeles
- Time Out #12 · The 40 best restaurants in Los Angeles you need to try right now
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Rank 100. République
Southern European Mediterranean
A sprawling bakery and restaurant with soaring brick ceilings that pulses from dawn pastries through evening service, République channels a bustling European market hall. The Southern European menu pivots on impeccable ingredients—warm beignets, silky risotto, braised beef—executed with unfussy precision.
- 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