WHY An only-in-L.A. combo: creative Cal-Mediterranean dishes meet Justin Timberlake—worthy poolside dining. WHAT Mega-style meets better-than-the-norm hotel dining at this too-hip-for-most beach hotel. You can dine out on the green patio, in your own private tent or in the glam dining room; while it’s more romantic at night, it’s pricier, too, so we like coming [...]
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WHY Not that you’d regret shelling out for dinner, but the best deal in town is lunch at Joe’s, where for $19 you get a superb three-course meal—perhaps parsnip-fennel soup, shrimp risotto-sofrito and chocolate crunch cake. Great brunch, too. WHAT Before Abbot Kinney was the coolest place in L.A., Joe Miller gambled and opened a [...]
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WHY This carefully constructed Cal-Mediterranean seafood menu is worth the splurge, especially when you consider the setting. WHAT High ceilings, crisp white walls and floor-to-ceiling windows frame the dazzling view at this privileged outpost of elegant, yet unshowoffy, cuisine. A chef change led to a menu change as well, so the Asian influences gave way [...]
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WHY For a slice of old Hollywood, with a gentlemen’s club-style lounge, a pretty garden dining room and lovely tables under the overhanging oak trees on the patio. WHAT Food isn’t the main attraction at this fabled spot, although the eggs Benedict at brunch are one of the city’s best versions, and the ladies who [...]
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WHY The elegance, the view, the impeccable service run by famed ma’tre d’ Dimitri Dimitrov… and the food’s good, too. WHAT Is it a movie set or a restaurant? This restaurant atop the Sunset Tower Hotel is a little of both, a dazzlingly glamorous set with equally dazzling city views; outside is a separate operation, [...]
Type: Restaurant
Region: Central City
Neighborhood: West Hollywood
Features: A Scene, Breakfast, Cocktails, Dinner, Lunch, Patio Dining, Private Room, Quiet, Romantic
Price Range: $25-$33, $34-up
Cuisine Type: French, Modern American
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WHY The fantastic, funky outdoor patio, the great Bloody Mary and the junk food platter (the pastry chef’s version of Ding Dongs and Ho Hos) are an odd combo, but secretly you’ve got to love it for brunch. WHAT As the restaurant for the trendy Sofitel hotel, Simon/L.A. is a bit over the top, but [...]
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WHY Superb steaks and chops, succulent side dishes (duck fried rice, Japanese purple yams with crème fra’che) and comfort foods (pot roast, coq au vin). Oh, and a Sunday brunch that Los Angeles Magazine has twice declared the city’s best. WHAT This retro-contemporary (think Mad Men) chophouse run by star chef Suzanne Tracht delivers a [...]
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WHY Macrobiotic, organic, vegetarian and/or vegan cooking that’s better than you might think is possible. WHAT Shigefumi Tachibe, founding chef of the late lamented La Petite Chaya and executive chef of Chaya Venice and Chaya Brasserie, became an avid student of macrobiotic cooking years ago, and his studies finally paid off with this chic little [...]
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WHY For Mark Peel’s mastery of simple grilled meats, for the desserts, for Thursday grilled cheese night and for the handsome, old-L.A. setting that makes everyone happy. WHAT Lucques may be the Campanile of the new millennium, but that doesn’t mean Campanile peaked in the ’90s. It remains the perfect L.A. restaurant, the sort of [...]
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WHY The best pastrami on rye in Southern California; very good corned beef, too. WHAT Langer’s is so beloved that the city named the intersection of 7th and Alvarado Langer’s Square—and Metrolink put a subway stop right across the street. The subway furthers the happy feeling of a proper New York deli, from the vinyl [...]
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