The Best Places in Los Angeles
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- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Hotels
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Rank 176. Vaca
Rustic Spanish
The banquettes are printed with jokes, which tells you something about the mood at this rustic Spanish tapas bar from chef Amar Santana. Sherries and Spanish wines run deep, the bar area is a good-looking place to park yourself, and the kitchen sends out croquetas, paellas, and little grilled sandwiches layered with jamón ibérico and Manchego. Two outdoor patios round out the options when the weather cooperates, which in Costa Mesa it usually does.
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- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
- Eater Eater: The 38 Essential Orange County Restaurants
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The Rockwell Group redesigned every room and public space here, steering the W Hollywood from hot-pink maximalism into moody mid-century gold and emerald, with an oculus motif running through the whole thing. It's a full-service hotel sitting on Hollywood and Vine, above the Walk of Fame, with 319 rooms, suites, a rooftop pool bar, and weekly DJ sets and live music keeping the lobby from feeling too grown-up about itself.
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- Forbes Travel Guide Forbes Travel Guide: Forbes Recommended
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Rank 204. 71Above
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Rank 204. Etra
Italian
Burnt terracotta walls and 65 seats keep this Melrose Hill Italian restaurant feeling like someone's well-appointed dinner party. The team does twice-weekly farmers' market runs, so the menu follows the seasons rather than the other way around. The wine list moves through France, Italy, and California without showing off. A James Beard semifinalist nod for Best Chef California in 2025 tracks for a room where regulars rarely bother with the menu.
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- James Beard Awards 2025 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: California · Evan Algorri
- Eater The 38 Best Restaurants in Los Angeles
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Rank 204. Holy Basil
Northern Thai
Charcoal-grilled satay mushrooms from Long Beach share a menu with Dungeness crab curry and lip-tingling beef nam tok at this small, casual Thai restaurant in Atwater Village. The team behind it built a following on Northern Thai-style sausage packed for pandemic pickup, and the cooking has only gotten looser and more confident since. The New York Times put it on their list of the 25 best restaurants in Los Angeles right now, which for a neighborhood spot with a takeout window is saying something.
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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: Fifty Under $50
- Eater Eater: The 38 Best Restaurants in Los Angeles
- The New York Times The 25 Best Restaurants in Los Angeles Right Now
- Los Angeles Times Fifty Under $50
- Eater The 38 Best Restaurants in Los Angeles
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The team behind the Sunset Tower brought this residential-style luxury boutique hotel to West Hollywood, and the neighborhood pedigree shows. It sits at the quieter, leafy edge where the Hills meet Beverly Hills, a world away from the frenzy further east. Expect the kind of considered, old-Hollywood polish that never needed to announce itself. The Michelin Guide awarded it one Key.
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Vegan minibars and a rooftop with Pacific sunsets sum up Hotel Erwin pretty well: a boutique hotel that leans into Venice Beach without taking the bro-surf thing too seriously. It sits steps from the ocean in a neighborhood that has traded most of its beach-bum identity for wine bars and upscale boutiques, while still keeping the bodybuilders. The Michelin Guide has it among their selected hotels in Los Angeles.
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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 204. Lalibela
Ethiopian
An Ethiopian restaurant sitting quietly in the Little Ethiopia stretch of Fairfax, where injera-lined silver platters arrive on the table and a fork is beside the point. The family-run team keeps the room simple and lets the food argue for itself, which it does. The kitfo draws regulars back, and the Michelin Guide gave it a Bib Gourmand. Come with a group large enough to order widely, or you'll spend the meal regretting what you skipped.
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- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Bib Gourmand
- Los Angeles Times Los Angeles Times: #86 · The 101 best restaurants in Los Angeles
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Rank 204. Lasita
Wine Bar
The rotisserie spit is the organizing principle here: Filipino chicken inasal and pork belly lechon anchor a menu that also runs deep on vegan and gluten-free options, all of it designed to land at a table without a scary bill. Lasita is a natural wine bar tucked into Chinatown's Far East Plaza, and the glowing wine fridge holds Sicilian skin-contact, chilled Spanish reds, and sparkling Portuguese whites. A Monday-night glass or a family dinner both make sense, which is harder to pull off than it sounds.
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- Bon Appétit Bon Appétit: America's Best New Restaurants
- The New York Times The New York Times: The 25 Best Restaurants in Los Angeles Right Now
- Eater Eater: The 38 Best Restaurants in Los Angeles
- Bon Appétit America's Best New Restaurants
- The New York Times The 25 Best Restaurants in Los Angeles Right Now
- Eater The 38 Best Restaurants in Los Angeles
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- Time Out #30 · The 40 best restaurants in Los Angeles you need to try right now
- James Beard Awards 2024 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Hospitality
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- Wine Enthusiast Wine Enthusiast: Forward 50 Restaurants
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Rank 204. Nick + Stef's Steakhouse
Modern Steakhouse
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Rank 204. Nobu Malibu
Japanese
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- AAA AAA: Four Diamonds
- The New York Times The New York Times: 2021 · Critic's Pick · Restaurant Review
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The birds go in whole and come out deeply browned, every slice carrying crackling skin and a soft layer of fat underneath. This tiny strip-mall Thai restaurant in East Hollywood keeps things focused: duck over rice, duck over thin jade noodles, or duck as the salad. The carcass goes into the pot for a dark broth that becomes duck noodle soup, which regulars treat as a second visit folded into the first.
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- The New York Times The 25 Best Restaurants in Los Angeles Right Now
- Eater The 38 Best Restaurants in Los Angeles
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- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Key
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Rank 204. The Hobbit
French
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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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A 1964 concrete hulk at Wilshire and Normandie, the LINE is a hotel that leans into its brutalist bones rather than apologizing for them. The Sydell Group renovation turned 384 art-filled rooms into a Koreatown landmark, and the Hollywood Hills-facing rooms frame the Griffith Observatory and the Hollywood Sign like a painting someone left on your wall. Design-forward guests who find warm neutrals suspicious tend to feel at home here.
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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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Nine rooms, suites, and cottages tucked into a Mediterranean Revival estate in Silver Lake that has, over the years, been a silent-film star's mansion, a girls' school, and a Franciscan convent. The interior designer who eventually bought it had a conventional boutique hotel in mind; the building had other plans. It holds a Michelin Key, and the rooms feel less like accommodations than borrowed sets from a film that never got made.
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- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Key
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Jollof rice finished with herby lamb chops or jerk cauliflower is the kind of menu decision that takes longer than it should. This West African-Californian restaurant in Inglewood grew out of a pandemic pop-up, and the cooking still carries that energy, all sticky honey chicken berbere and root beer-braised short ribs with whipped yams. The room got a modern refresh and the cocktails are genuinely cooling. The Los Angeles Times put it among the best restaurants in California.
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- Los Angeles Times Los Angeles Times: The 101 Best Restaurants in California
- Los Angeles Times Los Angeles Times: #29 · The 101 best restaurants in Los Angeles
- Eater Eater: The 38 Best Restaurants in Los Angeles
- Los Angeles Times The 101 Best Restaurants in California
- Los Angeles Times #29 · The 101 best restaurants in Los Angeles
- Eater The 38 Best Restaurants in Los Angeles
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Rank 204. Voodoo Vin
Natural Wine Bar
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- Wine Enthusiast Wine Enthusiast: Forward 50 Restaurants
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Rank 238. ALTO
Peruvian
The live-fire hearth in the open kitchen sets the mood at ALTO, a fine dining spot in Studio City built around the flavors of Argentina and Uruguay. The menu runs toward generous, shareable plates, with breads and empanadas opening things up before proteins cooked over fire take center stage. South American wines get their own serious list. The Michelin Guide has it selected, and the Los Angeles Times placed it among the city's 101 best restaurants.
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- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
- Los Angeles Times Los Angeles Times: #55 · The 101 best restaurants in Los Angeles
- Eater Eater: The 38 Best Restaurants in Los Angeles
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
- Los Angeles Times #55 · The 101 best restaurants in Los Angeles
- Eater The 38 Best Restaurants in Los Angeles
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Complimentary Stanley coolers and beach bags packed with towels greet you at check-in, which sets the tone for this 25-room boutique hotel one block from the Balboa Peninsula shore. The rooftop deck looks out over the harbor, and the whole place leans hard into the idea that you came here to do nothing useful. A low-key, sun-faded-in-a-good-way escape for anyone who doesn't need a sprawling resort to feel like they're on vacation.
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Rank 238. Cobi's
Imaginative Southeast Asian
The pink building with green trim on Main Street signals something a little different, and the floral wallpaper and mismatched furniture inside confirm it. Cobi's is a lively, affordable Southeast Asian restaurant running Thai, Malaysian, and beyond on one broad menu. The Michelin Bib Gourmand crowd tends to look pleased about the curry puffs, the wood-grilled mains, and the fact that dinner here rarely requires a difficult conversation about the bill.
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- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Bib Gourmand
- Los Angeles Times Los Angeles Times: Fifty Under $50
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