The Best Restaurants in Encino, by the Record
Encino has sent exactly one place into the record so far: Pasta|Bar, honored by Michelin Guide.
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Rank 1. Pasta|Bar
Modern Italian
A tasting menu restaurant tucked into a strip mall on Ventura Boulevard, which is either a joke or a dare. The format is intimate and genuinely theatrical: drinks and a snack up front in a bar, then a procession of modern Italian-leaning pasta courses that push well past Italian tradition. The cooking holds a Michelin star, and the staff seem to know it without being insufferable about it.