Silverlake Ramen
Silverlake Ramen’s tonkotsu brings all the boys to the yard — so be prepared to wait in line. A rich tonkotsu broth cooked for 16 hours with thick cuts of chashu pork belly, green onions, spicy chili paste and super...
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Otoño
It suddenly feels like every new restaurant in Los Angeles is opening in Highland Park, and Otoño is no exception to that rule. What’s much more rare however, is good Spanish restaurants except for our beloved Tumaca (RIP) food truck...
Sari Sari Store
Over the last year or so Filipino food has finally begun making its way into the spotlight of LA’s mainstream food media. It’s about time, given that city has the largest Filipino American population in the country. At popular restaurants...
Hail Mary Pizza
Hail Mary is very religious about pizzas. The dough is fermented and given enough time to rise, using wild yeasts and organic gains. Each pizza has a crisp crust with puffy edges, and covered with fresh ingredients from the Santa...
Hayato
Hayato, a shoebox of a restaurant nestled in the corner of the ROW DTLA, is just the type of place you’d be hard pressed to find anywhere other than Los Angeles. During the daytime, Chef Brandon Go, who cut his...
Alta Adams
Alta Adams is a collaboration between Michelin-starred chef DC Patterson from Coi, and chef Keith Corbin, a Watts native and LocoL alum. Alta Adams offers a take on soul food, inspired by West African cuisine and classic American dishes. Think...
Triple Beam Pizza
The magic of Triple Beam Pizza is the al taglio method, which means you can try every type of pizza and not get full: have your pie and eat it too. These long Roman-style pizzas are cut with scissors and...
Langer’s
When Albert J. Langer opened Langer’s Deli in 1947, he had no idea that his Number 19 sandwich would be nicknamed “the Marilyn Monroe of pastrami sandwiches”, not that we would sell over ten million pounds of pastrami. The #19...
Orsa & Winston
Orsa & Winston (named after the chef’s dogs) is a mix of Italian and Japanese influences, with creative pasta, seafood stews, donabe and breakfast omakase. It is the more formal spot from Josef Centeno, who reigns over Downtown LA with...
Raffi’s Place
Raffi’s Place is an Persian-Armenian institution in Glendale, as Rafik Bakijanian (65), his wife Gohar (69) and their son Armond (39) are about to celebrate the restaurant’s 25th anniversary. For a quarter of a century, Raffi’s Place has been serving...