Majordomo
In the past year we’ve seen no shortage of world famous chefs heading out West and opening shop in Los Angeles. Time will only tell if this phenomenon will bear fruit for a majority of the transplants, but we can...
Downtown
Silverlake Wine
Randy Clement, April Langford and George Cossette take pride in being one of the friendliest wine shops around Los Angeles. Their carefully curated and ever-changing selection of wines orbits towards small-production domestic and French bottles, as well as European natural...
Shibumi
It’s not hard to find a great sushi spot in Los Angeles, but finding a restaurant that specializes in Kappo cuisine is another matter altogether. Thankfully, that all changed when David Schlosser decided to open up Shibumi on an unassuming...
Rossoblu
Rossoblu is an ode to the “cucina della nonna” of Emilia Romagna (the region of Bologna, renowned for its fresh pasta), and in particular Steve Samson’s grandmother. Chef Samson is famous for his former restaurants Pizzeria Ortica and Sotto, where...
Eggslut
Welcome to the temple of food porn. The place where you get your fingers dirty, and you enjoy it, especially when it is captured on camera. At Eggslut, sandwiches are prepared with a soft brioche bun which makes love with all...
Van Leeuwen
It took a New Yorker to create the most Californian ice cream: vegan scoops with raw cocoa, cashew milk, matcha… or even turmeric! The non-vegan ice creams have more traditional tastes (the good old chocolate, vanilla, strawberry…) and are made...
Salt & Straw
L.A. no longer needs to envy Portland, the hipster-foodie capital of the West Coast: we now have Stumptown, Blue Star Donuts, and Salt & Straw. However when they moved to California, Salt & Straw came with the 20-minute regulatory line in...
Sticky Rice
Sticky Rice is the closest thing you’ll ever get to a Thai street-stall meal in Los Angeles. There are very few fie items on their menu at Grand Central Market, and they give the utmost attention to each and every...
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
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...