
Cuisine Type
Neighborhood
Features
Restaurants
Golden Deli
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![]() Golden Deli, you may not need to be told, is one of the best Vietnamese noodle shops in Southern California, a well-worn citadel of banh hoi and pho in a busy San Gabriel mini-mall, a restaurant so popular that its customers wait up to an hour for a spot at one of the sticky, cramped tables -... More >> |
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| Monterey Park/ Alhambra/ S. Gabriel | Vietnamese | Kid Friendly, Takeout | $ |
Guelaguetza
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![]() I've been one of the wretched minions tearing himself out of bed at 6 every morning, brushing his teeth with ale and hauling down to the local bar for another go at the World Cup matches, the dawn bacchanalia of soccer, nationalism and strong beer that leave even strong men and women without... More >> |
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| Mid-Wilshire/ Hancock Park | Oaxacan | Banquet Facilities, Catering, Delivery, Private Party, Takeout | $$ |
Guisados
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![]() You don't get carne asada here; you get floppy scraps of fried pigskin simmered in a chile sauce, or griddled steak in chile-enriched tomato sauce, or a spicy Poblano-style chicken mole given texture with nuts and grains and seeds. This is one of the few taquerias in Los Angeles where a... More >> |
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| East L.A. | Mexican | Takeout | $ |
Ha Tien Quan
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![]() The family that runs the kitchen originally hails from Ha Tien, a small border town at the headwaters of the Mekong Delta, best known for being the jumping-off point for secret Cambodia incursions made by the CIA during the Vietnam War. A good deal of the menu is dedicated to South Vietnamese... More >> |
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| Monterey Park/ Alhambra/ S. Gabriel | Vietnamese | Takeout | $$ |
Hatfield's
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![]() The main dining room at Citrus lay at the heart of California cooking in the mid-1980s, a clean, white space opening directly onto the restaurant's vast open kitchen, where you imagined you could follow the progress of your appetizer from garde manger to hot line to the spot where Michel... More >> |
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| West Hollywood | California, French | Patio-Sidewalk Dining, Private Party, Prix Fixe, Vegetarian Friendly | $$$ |
Hawkins House of Burgers
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![]() This burger joint on the border of South Los Angeles and Compton is perhaps most famous for its Hawkins Special, which, weighing in at five pounds, consists of three one-pound burger patties, cheese, bacon, chilies, onions, tomatoes, lettuce, fried eggs, pastrami, mustard, a butterflied hot... More >> |
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| USC to South L.A. | American, Burgers | Catering, Delivery, Patio-Sidewalk Dining, Takeout | $ |
Huckleberry
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![]() You could put a "brunch" sign up over a cell-phone store in Santa Monica and a line would probably curl down the block. But Sunday mornings at Huckleberry, the new bakery/café from Rustic Canyon pastry chef Zoe Nathan, come perilously close to full-contact brunch, a scrum of Prada, Lululemon... More >> |
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| Santa Monica | American, Bakery, Pastries, Salads, Sandwiches | Catering, Takeout | $$ |
The Hungry Cat
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![]() If you prize your sanity, try never to bring up the subject of lobster rolls with a New England native. If you haven't managed to edge away, you will be apprised how long the lobster must be boiled, how coarsely it must be chopped, and the exact brand of mayonnaise essential to the end result.... More >> |
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| Hollywood | American, California, Seafood | Catering, Patio-Sidewalk Dining, Private Party, Takeout | $$ |
Il Grano Restaurant
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![]() Fish, man — raw fish — from Tokyo’s Tsukiji Market and jetted right to you, careful slabs of yellowtail, tuna, fluke, sprinkled with salt and drizzled with olive oil, Italian sashimi on a pretty glass plate. Il Grano’s crudo, Italian sashimi, hasn’t the pleasure in it that you’ll find at, say,... More >> |
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| West L.A. | Italian | Wheelchair Accessible | $$$, $$$$ |
ink.
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![]() Chef Michael Voltaggio is famously an advocate of modernist cuisine, as driven by technique as by ingredients, and overall by the imperative of originality. His dish of young turnips and radishes is clearly inspired by the gargouillou of Michel Bras, a touchstone dish of modernist cuisine... More >> |
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| West Hollywood | Takeout | $$$ | |
Jar
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![]() Any place in town can broil an acceptable filet mignon, but Suzanne Tracht's snazzy steak house is a blast from the Mad Men '60s, chefly riffs on the strip steak and the porterhouse, the hash brown and the french fry that may or may not incorporate every last pea tendril and star-anise infusion... More >> |
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| West Hollywood | American, California | Delivery, Private Party | $$$ |
Jitlada Thai Restaurant
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![]() It is already hard to believe there was a time before Suthiporn Sungkamee and his sister Jazz Singsanong were fixtures on the Hollywood Thai restaurant scene. The Southern Thai specialties we have quickly learned to take for granted - just a couple of years ago, the Songkhla-style rice salad;... More >> |
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| Silver Lake | Asian, Thai | Catering, Delivery, Private Party, Takeout | $$ |
Jtyh Restaurant
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![]() If you've been to a local Sichuan or Yunnan restaurant, you've had most of the appetizers at JTYH: cold pig's ears and salted cucumbers, shredded-bean curd salad and smoked chicken legs. The waitresses will push you into ordering the pan-fried bao, and they're not wrong. The steamy buns, ringed... More >> |
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| Central San Gabriel Valley | Chinese | $ | |
Kang Ho Dong Baekjeong
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![]() The meat selection doesn't veer into the exotic — there are no offal cuts, and no seafood — and your choices generally come down to the question of whether you favor swine or bovine. While the pink curls of chadol, or thin-sliced brisket, are pretty much what you'll find anywhere, the beef... More >> |
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| Mid-Wilshire/ Hancock Park | Asian, Korean | $$ | |
Kiriko Sushi
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![]() Kiriko may still be the great undiscovered sushi bar in Los Angeles, and Ken Namba's traditional yet creative sashimi surpasses most of what is sold at three times the price. Namba smokes fresh Copper River salmon over smoldering cherry wood, slices it thick and wraps it around spears of ripe... More >> |
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| West L.A. | Asian, Japanese, Sushi | Business Dining, Takeout | $$$ |
Kiyokawa Restaurant
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![]() The menu at Kiyokawa, a small sushi bar on the southern edge of Beverly Hills, is scrawled on a sidewalk chalkboard, with basic specials running toward the crunch roll and the teriyaki plate. It is only when you settle into one of the stools along the sushi bar itself that you begin to notice... More >> |
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| Beverly Hills | Japanese, Sushi | Delivery, Takeout | $$$$ |
L&E Oyster Bar
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![]() This new hotspot in Silver Lake is located in the same cozy space that formerly housed the Italian restaurants Michelangelo and Domenico. The L&E might be small, but it's in a key part of the neighborhood, across the street from L.A. Mill Co. on Silver Lake Boulevard, and just a block south of... More >> |
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| Silver Lake | Seafood | $$$ | |
La Casita Mexicana
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![]() When you sit down at La Casita, the spiritual home of Mexican cooking in Los Angeles at the moment, you are brought a basket of warm chips drizzled with jet-black mole poblano, a chile-laced red pepian and a green pepian made from crushed pumpkin seeds: the dense, complexly sweet mother sauces... More >> |
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| Southeastern Cities | Latin American, Mexican | Catering, Takeout | $$ |
Langer's Delicatessen-Restaurant
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![]() In the course of the half-block walk from the Alvarado Red Line station to the old-line delicatessen Langer's, you will smell the food from a half-dozen Central American countries, pass within sight of Mexican street murals, and be offered the opportunity to buy fresh mangoes, counterfeit green... More >> |
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| Westlake | American, Deli, Jewish | Catering, Kosher, Takeout | $$ |
Little Dom's
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![]() Little Dom's, is the kind of battered, intimate restaurant that seems like a relic from the midcentury, when this stretch of Los Feliz was still more or less an Italian area, but it was created out of whole cloth by the Dominick's team of Warner Ebbink and chef Brandon Boudet, which means that... More >> |
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| Los Feliz | Italian | Patio-Sidewalk Dining, Private Party, Takeout | $$ |
Lucques
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![]() The California-Mediterranean cooking of Suzanne Goin, which is feminine in all the best ways, is profoundly beautiful in its simplicity, and there is satori to be found in every bite of grilled fish, every herb salad, every roasted vegetable. When she's on, Goin teases out the flavor from a... More >> |
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| West Hollywood | California, French | Catering, Fireplace, Patio-Sidewalk Dining, Private Party, Prix Fixe | $$$ |
Lukshon
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![]() Lukshon, tucked next to Father's Office in the Helms Bakery complex, is Sang Yoon's most completely realized concept yet, an edgy, grown-up restaurant serving an Asian-ized, farm-centered, technique-oriented small-plates menu, very much on the path blazed by places like Animal, Lazy Ox and Red... More >> |
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| Culver City | Asian Fusion | Patio-Sidewalk Dining | $$$ |
Matsuhisa
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![]() If Nobu Matsuhisa were nothing more than a gifted sushi master, running his successful restaurant Matsuhisa in Beverly Hills and training a couple of apprentices a year, he would still be exalted in the refrigerated fish warehouses downtown. But he is not. He is the one who changed the game.... More >> |
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| Beverly Hills | Japanese, Sushi | Business Dining, Patio-Sidewalk Dining, Private Party, Prix Fixe, Takeout | $$$ |
Meals by Genet
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![]() Fairfax Avenue's Little Ethiopia is one of the grooviest enclaves in town, a long city block lined on both sides by coffeehouses, food markets, and places to buy both Ethiopian knickknacks and CDs of Ethiopian pop music, which is at the same time danceable and as inscrutable as Amharic poetry.... More >> |
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| Mid-Wilshire/ Hancock Park | African, Ethiopian | Catering, Family Style, Takeout | $$ |
Melisse
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![]() If you've been around the Los Angeles restaurant scene for long enough to remember Josiah Citrin as a surfer dude in the kitchens of Joachim Splichal, it may have seemed as if he was trying to create Mélisse as a Michelin-worthy restaurant by force of will alone, imposing luxury ingredients and... More >> |
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| Santa Monica | French | Banquet Facilities, Business Dining, Catering, Coat Check, Private Party, Prix Fixe, Vegetarian Friendly | $$$$ |
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