1360 N. Vine St. : Los Angeles, CA 90028 : 323-871-9600
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 So close to the ArcLight Theater that it shares its parking lot, Los Balcones del Peru lies at the precise border of redeveloped Hollywood and its shadow, a breath of garlicky authenticity a few steps south from the velvet-rope district. Los Balcones also may be the only Peruvian restaurant in... More >> |
| Hollywood |
Latin American, Peruvian, South American |
Takeout |
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724 N. Vine Ave. : Los Angeles, CA 90038 : 323-962-6369
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 Lou Amdur, who can probably talk more profoundly about biodynamic wines than anyone who hasn't actually buried a dung-filled animal horn at midnight during a full moon, is the proprietor of this tiny, wonderful wine bar on the south end of Vine, home to both his list of organic country wines... More >> |
| Hollywood |
California, Contemporary, Wine Bar |
Wheelchair Accessible |
$$$ |
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8474 Melrose Ave. : West Hollywood, CA 90069 : 323-655-6277
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 The California-Mediterranean cooking of Suzanne Goin, which is feminine in all the best ways, is profoundly beautiful in its simplicity, and there is satori to be found in every bite of grilled fish, every herb salad, every roasted vegetable. When she's on, Goin teases out the flavor from a... More >> |
| West Hollywood |
California, French |
Catering, Fireplace, Patio-Sidewalk Dining, Private Party, Prix Fixe |
$$$ |
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3238 Helms Ave. : Culver City, CA 90232 : 310-202-6808
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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 >> |
| Culver City |
Asian Fusion |
Patio-Sidewalk Dining |
$$$ |
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7119 Melrose Ave. : Los Angeles, CA 90046 : 323-525-0588
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 If you've ever wondered if people actually wear the $400 jeans you see advertised in Vogue, an hour at M Café can be instructive, a merry parade of the snuggest styles and the most avant-garde finishes, worn by some of the most beautiful people on Earth. This is the place that made macrobiotic c... More >> |
| Hollywood |
American, California, Health, Vegan, Vegetarian |
Catering, Delivery, Patio-Sidewalk Dining, Takeout |
$$ |
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10962 Ventura Blvd. : Studio City, CA 91604 : 818-761-6565
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| San Fernando Valley |
Mediterranean |
Business Dining, Catering, Kid Friendly, Patio-Sidewalk Dining, Private Party, Smoking, Takeout, Vegetarian Friendly, Wheelchair Accessible |
$$ |
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1052 N. State College : Anaheim, CA 92806 : 714-776-3415
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 Get the cocteles frios, served to you in chalices as big as sports trophies. Scoop out the chunks of rubbery octopus, bloated shrimp and pristinely tender fish from the cold vortex of the liquid, then chug the invigorating vaguely V8-like broth and feel its freezing tingle travel up your throat... More >> |
| Out of Town |
Mexican |
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$$, $$$ |
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4905 Santa Monica Blvd. : Los Angeles, CA 90029 : 323-662-9325
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 Marouch has been a Hollywood Lebanese-Armenian mainstay for so long that it is sometimes possible to forget just how good it can be, how succulent the grilled quail, how zataar-fragrant the toasted-bread salad fattoush, how reliable the kebabs, which sing with spice and juice and char. I can't... More >> |
| Hollywood |
Armenian, Lebanese, Middle Eastern |
Catering, Takeout |
$$ |
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10406 Venice Blvd. : Culver City, CA 90232 : 310-559-9644
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 Jammed into a strip mall, sharing a parking lot with a doughnut parlor, a kebab house and a check-cashing emporium, Mayura may be the last place you would expect to find a fine Indian restaurant. But just up the road from the Culver City hamburger stands and Thai restaurants that draw lunching... More >> |
| Culver City |
Indian |
Catering, Delivery, Takeout, Vegetarian Friendly |
$$ |
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1053 S. Fairfax Ave. : Los Angeles, CA 90019 : 323-938-9304
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 Fairfax Avenue's Little Ethiopia is one of the grooviest enclaves in town, a long city block lined on both sides by coffeehouses, food markets, and places to buy both Ethiopian knickknacks and CDs of Ethiopian pop music, which is at the same time danceable and as inscrutable as Amharic poetry.... More >> |
| Mid-Wilshire/ Hancock Park |
African, Ethiopian |
Catering, Family Style, Takeout |
$$ |
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1104 Wilshire Blvd. : Santa Monica, CA 90401 : 310-395-0881
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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 l... More >> |
| Santa Monica |
French |
Banquet Facilities, Business Dining, Catering, Coat Check, Private Party, Prix Fixe, Vegetarian Friendly |
$$$$ |
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11188 Washington Place : Culver City, CA 90232 : 310-559-6821
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 Metro Cafe is everybody?s favorite secret restaurant, a faux-?50s diner attached to a stucco chain motel that just happens to serve steamed trout on garlicky greens alongside its patty melts and chef salads, white-bean soup flavored with ham imported from a Santa Monica deli. If the owners are... More >> |
| Culver City |
European, Serbian |
Catering, Patio-Sidewalk Dining, Takeout |
$ |
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401 N. La Cienega Blvd. : Los Angeles, CA 90048 :
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Mezze is probably the swankest of the new upscale meze parlors. Micah Wexler, formerly of Craft and more importantly Voyeur, whose proprietors also own Mezze, is basically doing a New American menu inflected with Middle Eastern flavors here, so the braised tripe is garnished with crisp falafel... More >> |
| West Hollywood |
Middle Eastern, New American |
Patio-Sidewalk Dining |
$$$ |
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1147 Third St. : Santa Monica, CA 90403 : 310-451-0843
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 Back in its Nouvelle Cuisine days, Michael's may have been the first market-oriented restaurant in Southern California, a showcase not just of glorious art, Rauschenberg, Stella, Graham, Hockney, but of tiny vegetables, local meats, California wines and luxury foodstuffs identified by port of... More >> |
| Santa Monica |
California |
Business Dining, Catering, Patio-Sidewalk Dining, Private Party, Takeout |
$$$ |
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3655 S. Grand Ave. : Los Angeles, CA 90070 : 213-747-2141
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 The ceviche at Mo-Chica, in the Mercado La Paloma complex south of downtown, may be the best I have had: cubes of sushi-quality tuna in a thick vinegar emulsion sharp with chile, soft and tart and brutally spicy all at once, served with slivered red onion, a half-ear of giant-kerneled corn and... More >> |
| USC to South L.A. |
Peruvian |
Delivery, Takeout |
$$ |
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4648 Hollywood Blvd. : Los Angeles, CA 90027 : 323-644-2885
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 Mother Dough is a long corridor of a dining room, chairs and tables strewn without regard to geometry or feng shui, with a permanently full waiting area at the street end and at the other a metal igloo of a wood-burning pizza oven that looks hot enough, even from a distance, to forge swords.... More >> |
| Los Feliz |
Pizza |
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$$ |
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6667 Hollywood Blvd. : Los Angeles, CA 90028 : 323-467-7788
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 Before Musso & Frank Grill became a martini-fueled Hollywood clubhouse, the place where Faulkner blew out his liver and generations of character actors learned to show up on Wednesday for the chicken potpie, the restaurant was practically a showcase for what was then considered California... More >> |
| Hollywood |
American |
Business Dining, Private Party, Takeout |
$$ |
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416 E. First St. : Tustin, CA 92780 : 714-665-2262
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 Naan & Kabob should be renamed Rice & Kabob, since the Tustin Persian eatery prepares the latter platter 36 different ways. Rice with lamb kebab. Rice with fish kebab. Rice with beef, chicken and shrimp kebab. Rice with a type of falafel kebab. Redundant? No: regal. More >> |
| Out of Town |
Persian |
Kid Friendly, Takeout |
$$ |
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3426 W. Washington Blvd. : Los Angeles, CA 90018 : 323-737-9277
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 Natraliart is one of the nodes of Jamaican culture in Los Angeles, a high-ceilinged restaurant on a faded corner of Washington where the background reggae pounds out of Peavey speakers on the dining-room floor, the big television shows silent hip-hop videos when it isn't tuned to police chases,... More >> |
| Mid-Wilshire/ Hancock Park |
Jamaican, Vegetarian |
Catering, Takeout, Vegetarian Friendly |
$ |
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1700 W. Valley Blvd. : Alhambra, CA 91803 : 626-943-7645
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 Kanh Hoa's serves house-made rau ma, astringent pennyworth juice that tastes like freshly mown lawn, and strong black coffee dripped to order. But that nem nuong! At Kanh Hoa as at Ninh Hoa, nem nuong is served as part of a two-person combination platter, flanked with tiny pork patties grilled... More >> |
| Monterey Park/ Alhambra/ S. Gabriel |
Vietnamese |
Takeout |
$$ |
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120 N. San Gabriel Blvd. : San Gabriel, CA 91775 : 626-309-0836
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 At New Chong Qing, located in a sterile mini-mall anchored at one end by a bank and at the other by a chain drugstore, the menu seems pretty extensive, but a fish pot is placed on the table almost as soon as you sit down, and the waiter is already concocting a dipping sauce out of chopped... More >> |
| Monterey Park/ Alhambra/ S. Gabriel |
Chinese |
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$$ |
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518 W. Las Tunas Drive : San Gabriel, CA 91776-1111 : 626-289-5998
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| Monterey Park/ Alhambra/ S. Gabriel |
Asian, Chinese, Seafood |
Takeout |
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311 E. Valley Blvd. : San Gabriel, CA 91776 : 626-572-7638
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 Nha Trang is a serious noodle shop, without beer, without amusing Central Vietnamese appetizers like nem nuong or banh beo chen - just noodles, #1 through #8, read 'em from the blackboard, eat and go home. When the broth is exhausted for the day, you're out of luck - the kitchen makes only as... More >> |
| Monterey Park/ Alhambra/ S. Gabriel |
Vietnamese |
Takeout |
$ |
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524 S. Main St. : Los Angeles, CA 90013 : 213-623-8301
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 Even given the gentrification of downtown, the Nickel Diner appears less like a diner than a movie set, a seemingly unreconstructed '40s-era greasy spoon that popped up a few steps from what used to be considered the gamiest intersection in town, on a block where artists in natty hats share the... More >> |
| Downtown |
American, Diner |
Takeout |
$$ |
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9041 Sunset Blvd. : West Hollywood, CA 90069 : 310-275-9724
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| West Hollywood |
Thai |
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$$ |
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