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15 Best Group Dinner Restaurants in Los Angeles

The best 15 restaurants for group dinner in Los Angeles — curated by TastyPals editors.

The best group dinner restaurants in Los Angeles are Arts District Brewing Company, The Boiling Crab, Girl & the Goat Los Angeles, and more. Start with Arts District Brewing Company if you want the strongest overall first pick.

By Priya Sharma•15 ranked picks•Published July 15, 2026•Updated July 15, 2026
Methodology•Editorial team
Arts District Brewing CompanyThe Boiling CrabGirl & the Goat Los Angeles
15 Best Group Dinner Restaurants in Los Angeles
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Top picks at a glance

#1Arts District Brewing CompanyContemporary • Arts District • moderate#2The Boiling CrabChinese • Alhambra • value#3Girl & the Goat Los AngelesAmerican • Arts District • moderate

Who this guide is for

This guide covers the highest-rated restaurants for group dinner in Los Angeles, sorted by Google rating and editorial judgment. Picks span Arts District, Alhambra and Hollywood.

Quick picks

Arts District Brewing Company
Contemporary • Arts District
Arts District Brewing Company is an easy contemporary option in Arts District in Los Angeles to suggest without needing a long explanation.
The Boiling Crab
Chinese • Alhambra
The Boiling Crab is an easy chinese option in Alhambra in Los Angeles to suggest without needing a long explanation.
Girl & the Goat Los Angeles
American • Arts District
First, a correction worth making loud: this isn't an Alhambra Chinese spot — Girl & the Goat lives at 555-3 Mateo Street in the Arts District, Stephanie Izard's West Coast follow-up to her Chicago…
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Editorial details
Author: Priya Sharma
Published: July 15, 2026
Last updated: July 15, 2026

On this page

  1. 1. Arts District Brewing CompanyView →
  2. 2. The Boiling CrabView →
  3. 3. Girl & the Goat Los AngelesView →
  4. 4. HolboxView →
  5. 5. The Butcher, The Baker, The Cappuccino MakerView →
  6. 6. Urban PlatesView →
  7. 7. ProvidenceView →
  8. 8. OsteView →
  9. 9. Philippe The OriginalView →
  10. 10. WurstkücheView →
  11. 11. Musso & Frank GrillView →
  12. 12. BavelView →
  13. 13. RedbirdView →
  14. 14. MajordomoView →
  15. 15. Cafe VidaView →

How the restaurants compare

Editorial restaurant image stand-in for Arts District Brewing Company
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Arts District Brewing Company
Arts District • Contemporary
9.9/10
TastyPals Score
Price
moderate
Best for
dinner
Mood
Arts District
Editorial restaurant image stand-in for The Boiling Crab
Google
The Boiling Crab
Alhambra • Chinese
9.9/10
TastyPals Score
Price
value
Best for
dinner
Mood
Alhambra
Editorial restaurant image stand-in for Girl & the Goat Los Angeles
Google
Girl & the Goat Los Angeles
Arts District • American
9.2/10
TastyPals Score
4.8
Google
Price
moderate
Best for
Arts District dinner
Mood
Arts District
Editorial restaurant image stand-in for Holbox
Google
Holbox
Hollywood • Seafood
9.4/10
TastyPals Score
4.8
Google
Price
moderate
Best for
Hollywood dinner
Mood
Hollywood

How we chose

We looked for restaurants that feel like a strong fit for the guide topic, not just the most obvious names in the city. The shortlist favors rooms with clear mood, dependable pacing, and enough distinction to help someone decide faster. Read our full methodology →

Room tone

Lighting, pace, and general energy all need to support the reason someone clicked this guide.

Food fit

We favored restaurants that feel best suited for the moment, not just restaurants with broad reputation.

Useful range

The final list tries to give readers enough variation in neighborhood, price, and style to compare real options.

15 ranked picks

Girl & the Goat Los Angeles — First, a correction worth making loud: this isn't an Alhambra Chinese spot — Girl & the Goat lives at 555-3 Mateo Street in the Arts District, Stephanie Izard's West Coast follow-up to her Chicago original. Izard, the first woman to win Top Chef and an Iron Chef titleholder, cooks globally restless small plates here, and the kitchen leans hard into California produce. The room is all soaring ceilings, linen tones and greenery, with a central bar and two patios that keep it humming from lunch into dinner — genuinely built for a sprawling group order. Plant-forward folks, you're spoiled: the wood-fired broccoli under shrimp crunch and blue cheese labneh and the chickpea fritters with goat yogurt, tamarind and herb chutney are the table I'd build first. The sautéed green beans with fish sauce vinaigrette and cashews have lived on the menu forever for a reason. Carnivores, the goat curry with masa chips earns its name. And come back for Sunday brunch and the potato crepe, a cheeky banh xeo riff. It's $$$, Michelin-recommended for 2025, and worth the downtown trek. View restaurant →

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Holbox — Holbox occupies a counter stall inside Mercado La Paloma in South Central Los Angeles, and its reputation has grown steadily and without apparent effort into something that commands serious attention across the city's dining conversation. Chef Gilberto Cetina anchors the menu in the coastal cooking of the Yucatán peninsula, with a focus on raw and minimally processed seafood that diners and critics alike consistently describe as precise far beyond what the food-hall setting would suggest. The format is deliberately spare — a chalkboard listing the day's catch, limited seating, and a lunch-driven pace — which means the cooking has nowhere to hide, and by most accounts it doesn't need to. The menu has no verified dish list on file, so specific plates are best confirmed on arrival or via the counter's current board. What Holbox is broadly known for is sourcing-forward seafood preparation in which the quality of the fish does the structural work: aguachiles, ceviches, tostadas, and smoked preparations are recurring categories that appear across coverage of the restaurant. The specials column reportedly shifts with availability, and regulars advise treating it as the primary menu rather than an afterthought. Cetina's reputation rests specifically on his handling of both raw and cooked fish, and the kitchen is consistently cited for the kind of technique that reads as restraint rather than simplicity. Practically speaking, Holbox operates within market hours and draws a genuine midday crowd, so an early arrival is the standard advice from anyone who writes about it. Seats are few, the room is informal, and the experience is built around the plate rather than the atmosphere. Check the board on arrival, defer to whatever is freshest that day, and plan around a weekday lunch if you want the best chance at a seat without a wait. View restaurant →
Bavel — Ori Menashe and Genevieve Gergis built something in the Arts District that the Los Angeles dining conversation has not been able to stop referencing since it opened — a soaring, high-ceilinged room that photographers and date-planners return to almost as reliably as the people who come specifically for the food. The space has a quality that is genuinely rare in a city that tends to trade atmosphere against substance: the scale flatters rather than overwhelms, and the warm light reportedly holds through the evening in a way that makes the room feel considered rather than styled. For a night that needs to feel significant without announcing itself, Bavel is consistently cited as the room in Los Angeles that does that best. The kitchen centers on a contemporary Middle Eastern framework, and the reputation that has accumulated around it is specific: the hummus is widely reported to be made fresh and served warm, a distinction that diners and critics have noted repeatedly as genuinely different in character from the refrigerated versions the city otherwise defaults to. The menu is built around mezze logic — dishes that are meant to compose an evening rather than anchor one — and Menashe's approach to wood-fired bread is described as the right entry point, a through-line that connects the opening of the meal to whatever follows. The cocktail program is noted for drawing from the same pantry of herbs and spices as the kitchen, giving the evening a coherence that bars and restaurants rarely manage when they operate as separate concerns. The Arts District location means the surrounding blocks reward arriving early or lingering after. Reserve for weekend evenings; the bar is reportedly accessible for walk-ins on weeknights. View restaurant →
Majordomo — David Chang's Los Angeles outpost lands in Chinatown with a concept that is structurally, almost philosophically, a group-dining proposition. The menu is built around large-format preparations — the kind that require a table of six or eight to make sense of, both economically and ceremonially. For two people, the math and the spirit of the place work against you. For a gathered crowd, the room reportedly clicks into something genuinely celebratory, the kind of dinner where the occasion itself feels like the point rather than a pretext. The menu centers on two anchoring large-format dishes that diners consistently cite as the reasons to commit to the group format. A whole steamed fish with ginger and scallion — a preparation rooted in the southern Chinese canon — is known for arriving with enough tableside presence to organize the meal around it, demanding that everyone eat together rather than drift into individual plates. The crispy whole pig is the other centerpiece: reportedly rendered to produce crackling skin without sacrificing the interior, and carved at the table with the kind of ceremony that justifies the advance planning. Smaller sharing plates round out the pacing, understood by regulars as bridges between the large-format arrivals rather than the meal's foundation. Practically speaking, Majordomo rewards intentional planning more than most rooms in Los Angeles. The large-format dishes require advance ordering, the group size shapes what the dinner can actually be, and Chinatown's parking and foot-traffic dynamics are worth factoring in on weekend evenings. If your group is assembled and committed, the reservation is worth pursuing on its own terms — this is one of the more purposefully designed group-dinner experiences the city has to offer at this price level. View restaurant →

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