930 Hilgard Ave. : Westwood, CA 90024 : 310-208-8765
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 The Nine Thirty restaurant might be the last place you would expect to find a culinary epiphany in Los Angeles, jammed into the back of the Westwood W Hotel, adjacent to a bottle-service bar, past at least two velvet-rope gauntlets of bouncers who do not have your best interests at heart. Nine... More >> |
| West L.A. |
American |
Patio-Sidewalk Dining |
$$$$ |
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903 N. La Cienega Blvd. : West Hollywood, CA 90069 : 310-657-5711
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 Nobu Matsuhisa is the most influential Japanese chef in the United States, the father of a strange, original cuisine equally rooted in the sushi kitchen, the informal izakaya, and the seafood preparations of cosmopolitan Lima. Without him, half the new restaurants in Los Angeles and New York... More >> |
| West Hollywood |
Japanese |
Takeout |
$$$$ |
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8518 Valley Blvd. : Rosemead, CA 91770 : 626-280-8963
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 To say that the menu at Noodle Boy is minimal is probably understating things. You can get noodle soup. You can get noodles without soup. You can get soup without noodles. That's pretty much the end of the story, unless you include a perfunctory dish of Chinese broccoli with oyster sauce. See... More >> |
| Central San Gabriel Valley |
Chinese, Noodle |
Takeout |
$ |
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1257 E. Valley Blvd. : Alhambra, CA 91801 : 626-284-1868
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 Noodle Guy is kind of hip for a pho restaurant, furnished with lacquered wood, art on the walls and big flat-screen televisions permanently tuned to the Lakers. The logo, obsessively posted throughout the restaurant, pictures a chubby manga dude whose tongue is captured mid-slobber, in... More >> |
| Monterey Park/ Alhambra/ S. Gabriel |
Vietnamese |
Takeout |
$ |
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958 E. Garvey Ave. : Monterey Park, CA 91755 : 626-280-0831
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 It is always fried bao time at this Taiwanese breakfast specialist, fluffy, steamed pork buns sizzled until their bottoms crisp up like eggs fried in oil and the jellied juices of the pork heat and melt until they are pressurized enough to rocket across the table the moment that your teeth... More >> |
| Monterey Park/ Alhambra/ S. Gabriel |
Chinese, Taiwanese |
Takeout |
$ |
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11628 Santa Monica Blvd. : Los Angeles, CA 90025 : 310-207-5160
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 Sometimes you get the feeling that the owners of Nook are running less an American bistro than a joke about an American bistro. As faithfully as they reproduce the fundamentals of the kinds of fancily unfancy restaurants that pepper every urban neighborhood from San Diego to Augusta, Maine,... More >> |
| West L.A. |
American, Bistro |
Takeout, Wheelchair Accessible |
$$ |
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2005 Colorado Blvd. : Eagle Rock, CA 90041 : 323-255-6465
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 A converted burger joint saturated with the smell of wood smoke, red roof gleaming in the late-afternoon sun, Oinkster is the child of Max chef André Guerrero, a perfected fast-food restaurant, the old-school paradigm of pastrami, burgers and chicken reinvented for a age when a remodeled h... More >> |
| Northeast L.A. |
American |
Order Online, Patio-Sidewalk Dining, Takeout |
$ |
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2006 Sawtelle Blvd. : Los Angeles, CA 90025 : 310-268-2212
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 Orris, sometimes described as an Asian ?tapas bar,'' is a marriage between California casual and the Japanese izakaya, a great place to drop in for a beaker of daiginjo sake and a plate or two of smoked scallops garnished with salmon roe, seared tuna with sweet onion marmalade, or even what... More >> |
| West L.A. |
Asian, Asian Fusion, Pan-Asian, Small Plates |
Family Style, Kid Friendly, Patio-Sidewalk Dining, Vegetarian Friendly, Wheelchair Accessible |
$$$ |
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6602 Melrose Ave. : Los Angeles, CA 90036 : 323-297-0100
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 Nancy Silverton is the most dogged of chefs, dedicated to perfecting the most elemental of foods through sheer strength of will. Almost anybody who has tasted what she has wrought in the media of bread, pastry, cheese or pizza can attest to the power of her obsessions. And at the Osteria, a... More >> |
| Melrose/ Beverly/ Fairfax |
Italian |
Private Party |
$$$ |
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863 S. Western Ave. : Los Angeles, CA 90005 : 213-365-1750
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 If you are contemplating a pork-belly cleanse, you could do worse than to give it a test drive at Palsaik Samgyeopsal, a new place behind Ma Dang Gook Soo in a maximalist Korean mini-mall. Palsaik is presumably a branch of Palsaek Sam-gyeopsal, a famous pork-belly restaurant in the Sinchon... More >> |
| Mid-Wilshire/ Hancock Park |
Korean |
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$$ |
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955 S. Vermont Ave. : Los Angeles, CA 90006 : 213-380-1717
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 The waiter comes over, rubs the hot grill with a lump of beef suet. He flinches back, as the melted fat explodes into a rush of blue flame. He lays meat on the grill as tenderly as you might put a kitten to bed, which almost makes sense, at more than $30 for an order of sliced Kobe-style beef... More >> |
| Mid-Wilshire/ Hancock Park |
Barbecue, Korean |
Family Style, Takeout |
$$ |
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141 S. Grand Ave. : Los Angeles, CA 90012 : 213-972-3331
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 Sustainable? No. Organic? Probably not. Multicultural? Only when strictly necessary. Patina's exquisitely wrought dining room in Disney Hall is the most important restaurant space in California, and Tony Esnault is a master of modern global cuisine, finely crafted, vegetable-intensive... More >> |
| Downtown |
California, Contemporary, French |
Business Dining, Delivery, Patio-Sidewalk Dining, Private Party, Prix Fixe |
$$$ |
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1001 N. Alameda St. : Los Angeles, CA 90012 : 213-628-3781
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 Now that its only serious competitor is about to be retrofitted into a gleaming replica of itself, Philippe's is one of the few remaining artifacts of the Los Angeles that Philip Marlowe knew, a sprawling complex of long tables, cheap coffee, sawdust-sprinkled floors and a Depression-era beef... More >> |
| Downtown |
American, Deli, Dessert, Salads, Sandwiches, Specialties |
Private Party, Takeout |
$ |
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1517 Centinela Ave. : Inglewood, CA 90302 : 310-412-7135
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 Crusted with black and deeply smoky, the spareribs at Phillips Barbecue are rich and crisp and juicy, not too lean. Beef ribs, almost as big around as beer cans, are beefy as rib roasts beneath their coat of char, tasty even without the sauce. They are the only ribs that can compete on equal... More >> |
| Inglewood |
Barbecue |
Takeout |
$ |
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4307 Leimert Blvd. : Inglewood, CA 90302 : 323-292-7613
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 Every year, there is an upstart who claims that he makes the best barbecue in Los Angeles. And every year, I visit the stand, snort, and stop back at Phillips on the way home, because there are occasionally things that shouldn't be messed with. Crusted with black and deeply smoky, the spareribs... More >> |
| Inglewood |
American, Barbecue |
Family Style, Takeout |
$ |
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2619 S. Crenshaw Blvd. : Los Angeles, CA 90016 : 323-731-4772
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 Crusted with black and deeply smoky, the spareribs at Phillips Barbecue are rich and crisp and juicy, not too lean. Beef ribs, almost as big around as beer cans, are beefy as rib roasts beneath their coat of char, tasty even without the sauce. They are the only ribs that can compete on equal... More >> |
| West Adams/ Crenshaw/ Baldwin Hills |
Barbecue |
Patio-Sidewalk Dining, Takeout |
$ |
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913 E. California Blvd. : Pasadena, CA 91106 : 626-795-1123
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 This is the best neighborhood hamburger joint in a neighborhood that includes Caltech, which means the guy next to you may be reading a physics proof over his chili size as if it were the morning paper. When compressed by the act of eating, a Pie ?N Burger hamburger leaks thick, pink dressing,... More >> |
| Pasadena and vicinity |
American, Coffeehouse |
Takeout |
$ |
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6602 Melrose Ave. : Los Angeles, CA 90038 : 323-297-0100
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 It is almost impossible to have a civil discussion about pizza in this city of immigrants, because there may be no foodstuff so intimately linked to one's sense of identity. But in the wood oven at Pizzeria Mozza, Nancy Silverton has more or less reinvented the very idea of pizza, airy and... More >> |
| Hollywood |
Italian, Modern European, Pizza |
Private Party, Takeout |
$$$ |
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7360 Beverly Blvd. : Los Angeles, CA 90036 : 323-933-5300
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 The main room is dominated by the bar - a library of artisanal spirits rises to the ceiling - and Julian Cox's cocktail program, which includes drinks made with tiki bitters and yerba maté-infused scotch, mezcal with roasted tomatoes and sage, and tequila with Barolo Chinato and bitter Sardinian h... More >> |
| Melrose/ Beverly/ Fairfax |
Latin American, Mexican |
Wheelchair Accessible |
$$$ |
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764 S. Western Ave. : Los Angeles, CA 90005 : 213-387-1531
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 If you are anywhere near Koreatown when the need for takeout chicken strikes, follow your nose to Pollo a la Brasa, a Peruvian chicken joint all but concealed behind a fortress of hardwood logs. The smoky, crisp-skinned chicken here, sizzled over a hot wood fire and served with the incendiary... More >> |
| Mid-Wilshire/ Hancock Park |
Barbecue, Peruvian, South American |
Takeout |
$ |
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5955 Melrose Ave. : Los Angeles, CA 90038 : 323-460-4170
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 When Michael Cimarusti left the stoves at Water Grill to start Providence, his fans were expecting nothing less than the Los Angeles equivalent of fish palaces like Le Bernardin and Oceana in New York. At this glowing restaurant, he managed to fulfill even those super-high expectations - this... More >> |
| Hollywood |
Modern American, Seafood |
Catering, Delivery, Private Party, Prix Fixe, Vegetarian Friendly |
$$$$ |
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18525 Pioneer Blvd. : Artesia, CA 90701 : 562-402-9102
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 What the owners like to call Gujarati dim sum might more properly be called a bottomless thali, the cooking of the Indian province overwhelming you with labyrinths of flavor and a profusion of perfumes, a 10-course combination platter constantly refilled in all of its components. After 45... More >> |
| South Bay |
Indian, Pakistani |
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$ |
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5905 Wilshire Blvd. : Los Angeles, CA 90036 : 323-857-6180
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 The restaurant itself, run by Joachim Splichal's group, follows the lead of Splichal's Patina, Lincoln, by the Metropolitan Opera, and the Modern, in the Museum of Modern Art, in inserting major restaurants into major cultural spaces. And chef Kris Morningstar, whom we have seen here at Meson... More >> |
| Mid-Wilshire/ Hancock Park |
Modern American |
Catering, Patio-Sidewalk Dining, Vegetarian Friendly |
$$$ |
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8400 Wilshire Blvd. : Beverly Hills, CA 90211 : 323-651-5500
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 It is easy to order too much here, and you will be overwhelmed if you ignore the rule of five - three small courses, one large course and one vegetable (roasted kabocha with burnt onion and chrysanthemum leaves!) for two people.
But there is too much to love here, and too many reasons to... More >> |
| Beverly Hills |
Vietnamese |
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$$ |
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11025 Westminster Ave. : Garden Grove, CA 92843 : 714-638-9595
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 Argentina lives in this tiny strip of Garden Grove's Westminster Avenue, and the results are incredible: cheesy, fresh Argentine-style Italian pastas; gut-busting dishes of beef (the parillada has five different types alone); and more than 30 native Argentine wines. But the best part is... More >> |
| Out of Town |
Argentine |
Kid Friendly, Takeout, Wheelchair Accessible |
$$ |
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