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Maple Block Meat Co Culver City Los Angeles

Maple Block Meat Co.

Los Angeles has never been known for its barbecues. But that was before Maple Block and its brisket. Daniel Vaughn, the BBQ editor at Texas Monthly, has just declared it to be the best brisket in California… before adding: “California...
Plant Food Wine Venice

Plant Food + Wine

At Plant Food + Wine, trust us and order the kelp noodles. You may not be excited by the sound of kelp, but raw vegan cacio e pepe might convince you better. Gather your herbivore friends and book a table...
Sushi Gen Downtown Los Angeles

Sushi Gen

Ready, steady, go. You’ll have to show up promptly as soon as Sushi Gen opens its glass doors, or else an hour-long line may prevent you from getting in in time for lunch. It’s the sushi and sashimi lunch specials...
ConiSeafood Inglewood Los Angeles

Coni’Seafood

Changes are you’re not about fly down to Mexico City tonight to have dinner at Contramar and order the pescado a la talla. But option number 2 would be driving to LAX and stopping at Coni’Seafood on your way there....
Kazunori Santa Monica Los Angeles

KazuNori

Sometimes, spin-offs happen to be better than the original version — that’s almost never the case, but KazuNori is an excellent example. Not that Sugarfish is bad, but there are sushi restaurants all over Los Angeles that deserve your attention...
Lasa Downtown Chinatown Los Angeles

Lasa

Former pop-up now all grown up, Lasa was once an ephemeral restaurant in Alvin Cailan’s (Eggslut) Unit 120, then became the centerpiece of Far East Plaza for lunch and dinner. The Valencia brothers run the place, Chase in the dining...
Botanica Silverlake Los Angeles

Botanica

If it’s your first time at Botanica, avoid the weekend brunch and pretend you’re a regular: go for a weekday breakfast or an ‘apéro’. Sit on the patio, and you’ll be at the epicenter of the Silverlake trend: millennial pink...
The Exchange In The Loup

The Exchange

The Exchange, aka the restaurant at the bottom of the very-very-cool Freehand Hotel, could have been a simple lobby restaurant serving club sandwiches all day and club sodas all night. But when the Sino-Mexican chef Alex Chang meets the Israeli...
Destroyer Culver City Los Angeles

Destroyer

“At Destroyer, the food are so beautiful you don’t even want to eat it!” Is that a good or a bad thing though? Would you say that a song is so good that you don’t want to listen to it?...
Badmaash Downtown Los Angeles

Badmaash

Badmaash is nothing like your typical Indian restaurant — quite the opposite. Bollywood films projected on its walls, an gigantic Andy Warhol-style painting of Gandhi wearing Wayfarers… you feel more in Brick Lane than Downtown LA! The menu’s funky too:...