Brian Dunsmoor's ode to Southern cooking continues to produce some of the city's finest American cuisine, with a bent toward using fresh produce and deep flavors. Mehr erfahren.
This all-ramen restaurant from the popular izakaya just across the street serves a completely different bowl here, using thick noodles and a dense, porky broth that's chock full of garlic. Mehr erfahren.
While this corner strip mall restaurant still offers flashy, over-the-top rolls for celebrity types, the real gem is the omakase, chock full of interesting fish and based on warm, well-seasoned rice. Mehr erfahren.
You'll see a plate of cornbread on every table, and perhaps an order of uni-butter poached shrimp. As for entrees, opt for the hand torn pasta, fried quail, or bone-in pork chop. Mehr erfahren.
This West Hollywood restaurant, transplanted from Las Vegas, has some of the most consistent, and delicious, izakaya fare in Los Angeles. Mehr erfahren.
While things like breakfast pizza show up on the menu, find their version of avocado toast, granola, and other various Italian-American-slanted sweets on the morning bill of fare. Mehr erfahren.
The Rotisserie Chicken is packed with flavor and juicy to the last bite, it's served with fingerling potatoes, black kale, and chicken jus as a foundation.
A meat den through and through, Salt's Cure serves a killer weekend breakfast along with what may be the city’s single best weeknight pork chop — best enjoyed with a glass of wine, of course. Mehr erfahren.
Ludo Lefebvre’s runs this tiny, open-all-day, card-only, walk-in-only spot. In his hands classics like rolled omelets, butter-drenched burgundy escargot, and croque monsieurs have refinement and moxie Mehr erfahren.
The combined flavors in the sorrel rice bowl suggest how sunshine on a lemon tree might taste, and the ricotta toast painted with three jams resembles a flag to which I’d gladly pledge allegiance. Mehr erfahren.
While occasionally tough to nab tables, the casual vibe makes it easy to slip in any night of the week and feast on expert-level pasta, near-perfect small plates, and robust, shareable large plates. Mehr erfahren.
