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A-Won |
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| 913 1/2 S. Vermont Ave. |
Korean, Sushi |
$$ |
Mid-Wilshire/ Hancock Park |
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At its best, Japanese sashimi is something exquisite; delicate ultrafresh nibbles meant to be contemplated as much as they are to be eaten. Korean sushi is something else entirely – it is bar food, seasoned with raw garlic and hot peppers, smeared with bean paste, consumed in great quantities... More >> |
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Akasha |
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| 9543 Culver Blvd. |
New American |
$$$ |
Culver City |
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The Culver City restaurant scene is well into its mannerist phase, an era of sleek surfaces, theatrical settings and food that coolly defies nature. But the standard-bearer at the moment has to be the eco-intensive Akasha, where the recycled wood is sealed with beeswax, the chairs are... More >> |
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Alcazar |
1 User Reviews |
| 17239 Ventura Blvd. |
Lebanese, Middle Eastern |
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San Fernando Valley |
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‘Zahle in the Valley,” a friend calls it, a bit of Mediterranean Lebanon in the middle of Encino: a shaded terrace of music, grilled mullet and bright coals of apple-scented tobacco burning in brass hookahs. The cooks are reportedly Egyptian and Lebanese, but the owner, a well-known... More >> |
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Angeli Caffe |
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| 7274 Melrose Ave. |
Italian, Pizza |
$$ |
Hollywood |
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If you have ever been to Italy, you probably still have a vivid memory of your first meal at a simple side-street caffè not the grand and complicated dishes you read about in your guidebook, but a plate of spaghetti dressed with nothing but a bit of cheese, a few stalks of fresh... More >> |
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Angelini Osteria |
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| 7313 Beverly Blvd. |
Italian |
$$$ |
Melrose/ Beverly/ Fairfax |
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Where my favorite osterie in Italy find purpose in the repetition of classic dishes, in menus that may not change for decades, Gino Angelini is by nature a creative chef who likes to mark dishes as his own. A regular at his restaurants could tell the difference between Angelini's saltimbocca and... More >> |
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Animal |
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| 435 N. Fairfax Ave. |
American, Comfort Foods, Contemporary |
$$$ |
West Hollywood |
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The first thing you should know about Animal is that it is practically a shrine to bacon, which appears everywhere on the short, seasonal menu, up to and including a chocolate dessert. The chefs, Jon Shook and Vinny Dotolo, former Food Network stars who call themselves the Food Dudes, are the... More >> |
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Anisette Brasserie |
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| 225 Santa Monica Blvd. |
French |
$$$$ |
Santa Monica |
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Anisette looks as if it has always been here, absinthe bottles rising to Heaven behind the zinc bar and upper walls tinted nicotine yellow, like an awkwardly narrow space that has thrived since the belle epoque in spite of the fact that it was originally designed as a bank. Chef Alain Giraud has... More >> |
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AOC Wine Bar |
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| 8022 W. Third St. |
California, French, Mediterranean, Small plates, Wine Bar |
$$$ |
West Hollywood |
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The cheese-and-charcuterie-intensive inspiration for L.A.'s new generation of wine bars, Suzanne Goin's pan-Mediterranean A.O.C. is a fantasy of a modern small-plates restaurant, the kind of place you drop into for a glass of Friulian Tocai and a plate of sliced prosciutto, a Cairanne and some... More >> |
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Apple Pan |
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| 10801 Pico Blvd. |
American |
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West L.A. |
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The top and bottom buns of an Apple Pan burger are crisped and slightly oily, crunchy at the edges, working toward a near-complete softness at the middle; the pickles are resilient dill chips; the sheaf of fresh iceberg lettuce provides a dozen-layered crispness at the core. The beef, generally... More >> |
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Arturo's Puffy Taco |
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| 15693 Leffingwell Road |
Mexican |
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Southeastern Cities |
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Arturo’s, a faded takeout joint tucked into the corner of a U-Haul parking lot, looks like a Texas restaurant, akin to the prefab places out past the Wal-Mart, which always seem to have better enchiladas or barbecued brisket than the historic, atmospheric dives near the center of town. The... More >> |
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Asanebo |
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| 11941 Ventura Blvd. |
Japanese, Sushi |
$$$$ |
San Fernando Valley |
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In the heart of Studio City's sushi district, Asanebo is a second home for the hairy music-industry guys, the sophisticated expats and the tourists from Osaka that make up the clientele of so many of L.A.'s best Japanese restaurants. But Asanebo is no sushi bar – it specializes in the sashimi,... More >> |
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Attari Sandwich Shop |
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| 1388 Westwood Blvd. |
Iranian, Middle Eastern |
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West L.A. |
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An Attari sandwich is close to a perfect thing, a length of toasted French bread, a layer of main ingredient, and a dressing that includes fresh tomatoes, a handful of shredded lettuce and a smattering of spiced, supertart Iranian pickles that somehow manage to give the impression of a good... More >> |
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Babita Mexicuisine |
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| 1823 S. San Gabriel Blvd. |
Mexican |
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Monterey Park/ Alhambra/ S. Gabriel |
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It may serve Guadalupe Valley Syrah instead of margaritas, and chiles en nogada instead of nacho plates, but Babita is a relaxed corner Mexican place with great food, an Eastside joint whose service is burnished to a white-tablecloth sheen. Chef-owner Roberto Berrelleza, who spent decades as a... More >> |
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Bahn Thung |
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| 1001 N. Vermont Ave. |
Asian, Thai |
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Hollywood |
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It's almost mind-bending, a good nam kaow tod, the rustic Thai salad of deep-fried rice grains and wetly pink Thai “Spam,” citrus and slivered herbs, a kaleidoscopic whirl of crunchiness and chewiness, sweetness and animal pungency, three kinds of tart astringency and three kinds of... More >> |
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Bar Marmont |
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| 8171 Sunset Blvd. |
American, Contemporary |
$$$ |
Hollywood |
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Sometimes a burger and fries is enough to sustain you through a night of serious drinking, and sometimes it's got to be boozy bacon prunes. It is at those latter times that you hope you have the pull to get past the doorman at Bar Marmont, whose list of regular customers still resembles US... More >> |
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Bastide |
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| 8475 Melrose Place |
American, French |
$$$$ |
West Hollywood |
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Note: Currently closed. If you are not quite versed in the ways of Bastide, an evening in the restaurant can appear like a scene out of a Huysmans novel, footsteps crunching through gravel, a young man meeting you before you make it to the door, a short but circuitous walk into a room that is... More >> |
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Beacon: An Asian Cafe |
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| 3280 Helms Ave. |
Asian, Small plates |
$$ |
West L.A. |
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In an area of Culver City as thick with bar food as perhaps any neighborhood in the state, a friend of mine, with whom I have enjoyed giant plates of poutine in Canada and screaming slabs of porchetta in Umbria, still thinks of Beacon as basically a delivery system for its cheeseburger. He knows... More >> |
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Beechwood |
1 User Reviews |
| 822 Washington Blvd. |
American |
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Venice/ Marina del Rey |
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Only in the 21st century could you find a restaurant quite so midcentury modern, with sleek love-seat sofas and machine-polished wood and a quantity of prefabricated design that probably would have amused Ray and Charles Eames back in the days when their aesthetic was found more in your... More >> |
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BLD |
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| 7450 Beverly Blvd. |
American |
$$$ |
Melrose/ Beverly/ Fairfax |
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Neal Fraser, best known for his restaurant Grace, has long been a bwana of complexity in fourth-stage Los Angeles restaurants, mixing so many national idioms on a plate that his customers are never quite sure whether they are reading a menu or looking at a departures board at LAX. But at his... More >> |
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Blue Velvet |
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| 750 S. Garland Ave. |
California, Modern American, Small plates |
$$$ |
Downtown |
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Wrapped around a glowing swimming pool that turns every vantage into a David Hockney painting, Blue Velvet is a hyperdesigned lounge fitted into the ground floor of a former Holiday Inn, with the cool blues of Staples Center and the financial-district skyscrapers just beyond. Some of the herbs... More >> |
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Border Grill |
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| 1445 Fourth St. |
Latin American, Mexican |
$$ |
Santa Monica |
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Mary Sue Milliken and Susan Feniger are perhaps the unlikeliest great Mexican chefs in what is the second-biggest city in all Aztlan, neither Mexican by heritage nor serving a primarily Mexican clientele I suspect that most of their customers revere the place mostly for the potent... More >> |
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Bulgarini Gelato |
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| 749 E. Altadena Dr. |
Dessert, Gelato, Ice Cream, Italian |
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Foothill Cities |
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Leo Bulgarini is the wrong guy to mouth off to the day after his beloved AS Roma squad drops a game to Genoa or Inter Milan. His gelati are labeled only in Italian, and his standards are so famously strict that he has been known to pull his delicious sorbetti from the menus of restaurants and... More >> |
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Bulrocho |
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| 955 S. Vermont Ave. |
Korean |
$$ |
Mid-Wilshire/ Hancock Park |
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Bulrocho may be yet another storefront in a huge Korean minimall, literally in the shadow of Park's, but the 24/7 black-goat-soup specialist is a supremely useful place, serving its share of the traditional Korean restoratives, including a respectable version of the milky beef-bone soup... More >> |
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Caioti Pizza Cafe |
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| 4346 Tujunga Ave. |
California, Contemporary, Pizza |
$$ |
San Fernando Valley |
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When the history of California pizza is finally written, a greasy volume inscribed in arugula, goat cheese and truffle oil, chef Ed LaDou, through whose fingers Spago’s first 100,000 pizzas flowed, will be known across the land as the father of the California pie. If a pizza in Denmark or... More >> |
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Campanile |
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| 624 S. La Brea Ave. |
California, Mediterranean |
$$$ |
Hollywood |
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Monday is family-dinner night, when you can dine on big platters of fried chicken, porchetta or mussels at a reasonable price, and Thursday is still grilled-cheese night. If you missed the prix-fixe WGA Soup Kitchen dinners the first time around, they're back in an anniversary edition, maybe in... More >> |