The Best Places in Los Angeles
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A converted motor lodge on Sunset Boulevard, Le Petit Pali Brentwood is a 25-room boutique hotel tucked into one of LA's quieter, leafier neighborhoods. Four bungalow buildings wrap around patios with stone fountains and string lights strung over Adirondack chairs, giving it the feel of a private garden compound. Brentwood runs short on hotels by design, so staying here is about as close as you get to the residential calm the locals guard so carefully. The Michelin Guide awarded it one Key.
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- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Key
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Rank 266. Liu's Cafe
Chinese
Order at the wood counter, catch a glimpse of the kitchen behind it, and try not to eat the pastries before your food arrives. Liu's Cafe is a small, low-key Chinese diner on 6th Street where the seats fill fast and the menu leans into comfort: wontons, braised pork belly rice, chili oil noodles, a pot of milk oolong on the side. It holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand, and the sesame cold noodles won a LAist Best Bites nod.
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- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Bib Gourmand
- LAist LAist: Sesame cold noodles · Best Bites
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A former warehouse on the industrial edge of Chinatown, majordōmo is David Chang's sprawling, loud restaurant where the open kitchen sets the pace for everything else. The menu drifts freely across Asian influences, from snacks through noodles to large-format sharing plates, and it reads less like a document than a dare. Walk-ins can try for counter seats, but reservations go fast and the room fills faster.
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- Bon Appétit Bon Appétit: America's Best New Restaurants
- Eater Eater: The Best New Restaurants in America
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
- Bon Appétit America's Best New Restaurants
- Eater The Best New Restaurants in America
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
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Rank 266. Sora Craft Kitchen
Turkish
A solo chef running every aspect of a dozen-seat Turkish restaurant in DTLA is either a romantic gesture or a logistical nightmare, and here it reads as both. Order at the kiosk, find a stool at a white wood table under a ceiling of warm wood and hanging greenery, and settle in for Anatolian cooking that has fine-dining technique somewhere in its past but no interest in showing off about it. The Michelin Guide has it selected.
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- Esquire Esquire: The Best New Restaurants in America
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
- Los Angeles Times Los Angeles Times: #39 · The 101 best restaurants in Los Angeles
- Esquire The Best New Restaurants in America
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
- Los Angeles Times #39 · The 101 best restaurants in Los Angeles
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A modernist former motor lodge in North Hollywood that leaned into its past instead of apologizing for it, the Garland kept the grasscloth wallpaper, wood paneling, and stone fireplace, then painted the gym retro orange for good measure. Rooms have private balconies, and the hotel is dog-friendly in a way that goes beyond a shrug, with toys and bowls waiting on arrival. The Michelin Guide includes it in its selected hotels.
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- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Hotels
- Time Out Time Out: The 17 best hotels in Los Angeles
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Rank 266. Truly Pizza
American Artisan Pizzeria
An all-outdoor pizza shop spread across terraced levels in Dana Point, with citrus trees close enough to brush your shoulder and a window cut into the kitchen so you can watch the wood-fired ovens do their thing. Two styles of pizza, round and square, both with serious crust credentials, plus salads and sandwiches for anyone dragged here involuntarily. It landed at number four on 50 Top Pizza USA, which is a fairly loud argument made quietly.
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- 50 Top Pizza 50 Top Pizza: #48 · 50 Top Pizza World
- 50 Top Pizza 50 Top Pizza: #4 · 50 Top Pizza USA
- 50 Top Pizza 50 Top Pizza: 2026 · Pizza of the Year · 50 Top Pizza USA Special Awards
- 50 Top Pizza #48 · 50 Top Pizza World
- 50 Top Pizza #4 · 50 Top Pizza USA
- 50 Top Pizza 2026 · Pizza of the Year · 50 Top Pizza USA Special Awards
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Rank 359. Amor y Tacos
Mexican
Coca-Cola glazed pork belly and Doritos-dusted chilaquiles set the tone at this taco-forward Mexican restaurant in Cerritos, where the chef brings a fine-dining background to handmade tortillas and spicy salsas. The menu leans into LA's Mexican-American hybrid instincts, with truffle accents sitting comfortably beside beer-battered cod. It holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand and a spot on the LA Times taco list.
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- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Bib Gourmand
- Los Angeles Times Los Angeles Times: Short rib taco · The 101 Best Tacos in Los Angeles
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- US Coffee Championships US Coffee Championships: #2 · U.S. Brewers Cup · Christian Bak
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Rank 359. Broken Spanish Comedor
Mexican
The chicharron, crispy pork belly in garlic mojo, is the dish that people apparently plan their week around. This is a Mexican restaurant from chef Ray Garcia, running a compact menu of bold, nostalgic cooking that skews contemporary without making a show of it. The room fills fast, so reservations are not optional. Start with the aguachile negro and work your way forward; skipping anything tends to feel like a mistake in hindsight.
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- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
- Eater The Best Pancakes in Los Angeles
- Eater The 38 Best Restaurants in Los Angeles
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Rank 359. Donna's
American Italian
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- Spirited Awards Spirited Awards: 2026 · Top 10 Nominee · U.S. Bartender of the Year · Linda Douglas
- Spirited Awards Spirited Awards: 2024 · Regional Honoree · Best New U.S. Cocktail Bar – U.S. West
- Spirited Awards Spirited Awards: 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best U.S. Restaurant Bar – U.S. West
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Top 10 Nominee · U.S. Bartender of the Year · Linda Douglas
- Spirited Awards 2024 · Regional Honoree · Best New U.S. Cocktail Bar – U.S. West
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best U.S. Restaurant Bar – U.S. West
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Rank 359. Fat + Flour
Bakery
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- James Beard Awards 2024 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Pastry Chef or Baker · Nicole Rucker
- James Beard Awards 2025 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Pastry Chef or Baker · Nicole Rucker
- LAist Cookies · Best Bites
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Rank 359. Lola Gaspar
Mexican
Handmade flour tortillas and hand-pressed masa are the foundation at this Mexican gastropub in downtown Santa Ana, where a post-pandemic reset trimmed the menu down to tacos, quekas, and churros and made each one count. The Bib Gourmand reflects that focus. Grilled tomato and dried chili salsa ties the tacos together; habanero salsa does the same for the quekas. Happy hour makes running the whole short list an easy call.
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- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Bib Gourmand
- Los Angeles Times Los Angeles Times: Citrus marinated chicken taco · The 101 Best Tacos in Los Angeles
- Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand
- Los Angeles Times Citrus marinated chicken taco · The 101 Best Tacos in Los Angeles
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Rank 359. Macheen
Mexican
Housemade corn tortillas are the baseline here, warm and soft, and everything else is a riff on the form that lands somewhere between street food and genuine curiosity. Macheen is a taqueria operating as a pop-up, rotating through Boyle Heights and Smorgasburg, with a menu that might pile daikon pickles and grilled rib-eye onto one taco and sweet smoky beets al pastor onto another. The New York Times put it on their 25 best L.A. restaurants list, which tracks.
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- The New York Times The New York Times: The 25 Best Restaurants in Los Angeles Right Now
- Los Angeles Times Los Angeles Times: #93 · The 101 best restaurants in Los Angeles
- Los Angeles Times Los Angeles Times: Brisket taco · The 101 Best Tacos in Los Angeles
- The New York Times The 25 Best Restaurants in Los Angeles Right Now
- Los Angeles Times #93 · The 101 best restaurants in Los Angeles
- Los Angeles Times Brisket taco · The 101 Best Tacos in Los Angeles
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- US Coffee Championships US Coffee Championships: #8 · U.S. Brewers Cup · Joe Han
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- US Coffee Championships US Coffee Championships: #3 · U.S. Coffee in Good Spirits Championship · Glen Ackerman
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- US Coffee Championships US Coffee Championships: #3 · U.S. Coffee in Good Spirits Championship · Glen Ackerman
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- US Coffee Championships US Coffee Championships: #3 · U.S. Coffee in Good Spirits Championship · Glen Ackerman
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- US Coffee Championships US Coffee Championships: #3 · U.S. Coffee in Good Spirits Championship · Glen Ackerman
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Rank 359. ONYX Restaurant
Japanese
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- Time Out #13 · The 40 best restaurants in Los Angeles you need to try right now
- Los Angeles Times #75 · The 101 best restaurants in Los Angeles
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Rank 359. The Restaurant at Hotel Bel-Air
Mediterranean
Swan Lake has actual swans, and the terrace wraps around it at the kind of angle that makes dinner feel like a film set. This is a hotel dining room, but one where the garden earns its keep, not just its Instagram. The Mediterranean menu leans into good produce and clean flavors, from tuna tartare with ponzu to Colorado lamb, and the patisserie cart has a way of extending the evening longer than planned.
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Full kitchens, in-unit laundry, and Bulgari bath products make this extended-stay property in Beverly Hills feel less like roughing it and more like subletting someone's very tasteful second apartment. The 88 suites and townhouses run sleek and modern throughout, with room service arriving from the adjacent Spago when cooking feels like too much. A landscaped terrace with fire pits and views toward the Hollywood Hills keeps things social. A seven-night minimum applies.
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- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Hotels
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