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Taqui Taqui is an easy mexican option in Los Angeles to suggest without needing a long explanation.
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The best restaurants for casual night in Los Angeles, curated by TastyPals editors.

Fast answers for diners searching for casual night restaurants in Los Angeles. These first picks make the occasion easier to compare.

Taqui Taqui is an easy mexican option in Los Angeles to suggest without needing a long explanation.
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Buena Comida Mexicana is a mexican restaurant in Koreatown in Los Angeles that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.
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mala class is an easy contemporary option in Highland Park in Los Angeles to suggest without needing a long explanation.
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La Birria House is an easy mexican option in San Gabriel Valley in Los Angeles to suggest without needing a long explanation.
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Birrieria La Tapatia is an easy mexican option in Los Angeles to suggest without needing a long explanation.
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Danny Boy's Famous Original Pizza is an easy pizza option in Downtown in Los Angeles to suggest without needing a long explanation.
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Glory Burgers is a burgers restaurant in Los Angeles that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.
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Pizzeria Republica is a sensible pizza call in Los Angeles when you want something that usually lands well.
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Lola café is an easy contemporary option in Eagle Rock in Los Angeles to suggest without needing a long explanation.
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Birrieria Familia Castro is a mexican restaurant in Los Angeles that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.
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Lazy Dough is a contemporary restaurant in Long Beach in Los Angeles that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.
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Cow Belly Modern Dining (Restaurant) is a sensible contemporary call in Highland Park in Los Angeles when you want something that usually lands well.
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XIBEI EATERY is a sensible contemporary call in Westwood in Los Angeles when you want something that usually lands well.
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Stuff We Eat is a contemporary restaurant in Fairfax in Los Angeles that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.
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Mandi House مطعم بيت المندي اليمني لوس انجلس is a contemporary restaurant in Westwood in Los Angeles that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.
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Boathouse on the Bay is an easy contemporary option in Long Beach in Los Angeles to suggest without needing a long explanation.
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Tacos y Birria La Unica is a mexican restaurant in Sawtelle in Los Angeles that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.
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Burger District LA is a sensible burgers call in Los Angeles when you want something that usually lands well.
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BurgerShop is an easy burgers option in Los Angeles to suggest without needing a long explanation.
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Santo Silverlake is a contemporary pick in Silver Lake in Los Angeles when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
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Tacos y Birria La Unica - Mid City is a sensible mexican call in Venice in Los Angeles when you want something that usually lands well.
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Tacos de birria “La PelyGrosa” is an easy mexican option in Los Angeles to suggest without needing a long explanation.
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DADA ECHO PARK is an easy contemporary option in Echo Park in Los Angeles to suggest without needing a long explanation.
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Original Tommy's keeps showing up in the right conversations when people want a reliable burgers plan.
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Home Restaurant is a sensible contemporary call in Echo Park in Los Angeles when you want something that usually lands well.
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Guisados is an easy mexican option in Silver Lake in Los Angeles to suggest without needing a long explanation.
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Saint & Second is an easy contemporary option in Long Beach in Los Angeles to suggest without needing a long explanation.
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DeSano Pizza Bakery has built its reputation in West Hollywood on a straightforward premise: Neapolitan wood-fired pizza executed with enough fidelity that the Italian reference point holds up rather than serving as mere marketing.
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BlaqHaus NoHo is a contemporary restaurant in North Hollywood in Los Angeles that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.
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PIZZANISTA! DTLA Arts District is a sensible pizza call in Los Angeles when you want something that usually lands well.
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Sticky Rice, Echo Park is a sensible contemporary call in Echo Park in Los Angeles when you want something that usually lands well.
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Pine and Crane has held its corner of Silver Lake since 2014, and Vivian Ku's fast-casual approach to Taiwanese cooking appears to have settled into something close to neighborhood institution without softening its ambitions.
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Villa's Tacos Los Angeles is a sensible contemporary call in Highland Park in Los Angeles when you want something that usually lands well.
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Pizzeria Sei is a pizza restaurant in Los Angeles that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.
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The Butcher's Daughter is an easy contemporary option in Fairfax in Los Angeles to suggest without needing a long explanation.
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The Stand - American Classics Redefined is an easy contemporary option in North Hollywood in Los Angeles to suggest without needing a long explanation.
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Pomodoro Trattoria is a contemporary restaurant in Westwood in Los Angeles that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.
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Little Beast Restaurant is an easy contemporary option in Eagle Rock in Los Angeles to suggest without needing a long explanation.
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Hippo is a contemporary restaurant in Eagle Rock in Los Angeles that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.
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Quarter Sheets is a pizza restaurant in Los Angeles that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.
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Checker Hall is a sensible contemporary call in Highland Park in Los Angeles when you want something that usually lands well.
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Cafe Jane is a contemporary restaurant in Highland Park in Los Angeles that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.
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Violet L.A. is an easy contemporary option in Westwood in Los Angeles to suggest without needing a long explanation.
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SALTWATER DECK is a sensible contemporary call in Long Beach in Los Angeles when you want something that usually lands well.
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ikigai is an easy contemporary option in Eagle Rock in Los Angeles to suggest without needing a long explanation.
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In-N-Out Burger is a dependable burgers option in Silver Lake that a lot of diners already know and return to.
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Walter and Margarita Manzke's Républiqe occupies the Charlie Chaplin building in Hancock Park — a structure whose architectural weight most restaurants would buckle under rather than actually inhabit.
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Salsa & Beer keeps showing up in the right conversations in North Hollywood when people want a reliable contemporary plan.
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El Tepeyac Cafe is a mexican restaurant in Los Angeles that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.
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Parkers' Lighthouse is an easy contemporary option in Long Beach in Los Angeles to suggest without needing a long explanation.
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The Attic is a sensible contemporary call in Long Beach in Los Angeles when you want something that usually lands well.
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Sonoratown is the downtown taquería that built its reputation on a single, deceptively simple commitment: the flour tortilla.
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Cassell's Hamburgers has a backstory that's almost too good to be true: founded in 1948 by Alvin Cassell, shuttered, then brought back to life inside Koreatown's Hotel Normandie in 2014 by chef Christian Page, who reportedly kept the sam…
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Taqueria Los Anaya is a sensible mexican call in Los Angeles when you want something that usually lands well.
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Baltaire Restaurant is an easy contemporary option in Westwood in Los Angeles to suggest without needing a long explanation.
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The Henry is an easy contemporary option in Fairfax in Los Angeles to suggest without needing a long explanation.
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CaCao Mexicatessen is a contemporary restaurant in Eagle Rock in Los Angeles that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.
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Pizzeria Bianco is a pizza restaurant in Los Angeles that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.
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Luna Grill Sherman Oaks is a sensible contemporary call in Sherman Oaks in Los Angeles when you want something that usually lands well.
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Bacari Sherman Oaks is a contemporary restaurant in Sherman Oaks in Los Angeles that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.
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The Magnolia Grille is a contemporary restaurant in North Hollywood in Los Angeles that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.
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Botanica Restaurant and Market is a contemporary pick in Silver Lake in Los Angeles when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
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House of Meatballs is a contemporary restaurant in Westwood in Los Angeles that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.
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Wood & Water is a contemporary restaurant in Sherman Oaks in Los Angeles that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.
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Wolfsglen is a contemporary restaurant in Westwood in Los Angeles that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.
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Bacetti Trattoria is an easy contemporary option in Echo Park in Los Angeles to suggest without needing a long explanation.
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Carnivorous is an easy contemporary option in Eagle Rock in Los Angeles to suggest without needing a long explanation.
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ADKT Kitchen, Bar & Lounge is an easy contemporary option in Fairfax in Los Angeles to suggest without needing a long explanation.
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Donna's is a contemporary restaurant in Echo Park in Los Angeles that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.
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Amiga Amore is an easy contemporary option in Highland Park in Los Angeles to suggest without needing a long explanation.
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YICHA is a contemporary restaurant in Highland Park in Los Angeles that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.
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Hawkins House of Burgers is a sensible burgers call in Los Angeles when you want something that usually lands well.
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The Apple Pan is an easy burgers option in Los Angeles to suggest without needing a long explanation.
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The Breakfast Bar is an easy contemporary option in Long Beach in Los Angeles to suggest without needing a long explanation.
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Birrieria Don Boni is an easy mexican option in Little Tokyo in Los Angeles to suggest without needing a long explanation.
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Pizzeria Mozza is a pizza restaurant in Los Angeles that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.
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Casita Del Campo is a contemporary pick in Silver Lake in Los Angeles when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
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The Local Peasant - Sherman Oaks Restaurant and Bar is a contemporary restaurant in Sherman Oaks in Los Angeles that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.
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Izakaya Osen is the kind of contemporary room in Silver Lake you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.
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Colombo's Italian Steakhouse & Jazz Club is an easy contemporary option in Eagle Rock in Los Angeles to suggest without needing a long explanation.
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Garden Cafe (of Sherman Oaks) is a sensible contemporary call in Sherman Oaks in Los Angeles when you want something that usually lands well.
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Larchmont Bungalow Cafe is a sensible contemporary call in Echo Park in Los Angeles when you want something that usually lands well.
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The Bucket is an easy contemporary option in Eagle Rock in Los Angeles to suggest without needing a long explanation.
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Brian Dunsmoor's restaurant in Eagle Rock has built a reputation in Los Angeles not by treating Southern American food as a concept or a costume, but by engaging with it as a living culinary tradition — one grounded in whole-hog preparat…
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Guelaguetza Restaurant is one of the better-known mexican spots in Sawtelle in Los Angeles, which makes it a practical place to start.
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Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. keeps showing up in the right conversations in Long Beach when people want a reliable contemporary plan.
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El Cholo - The Original is a sensible mexican call in Koreatown in Los Angeles when you want something that usually lands well.
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Jon & Vinny's on Fairfax is the Italian-American project from Jon Shook and Vinny Dotolo that landed on the Los Angeles restaurant map and stayed there — a tight, buzzy room that runs from morning pastries all the way through dinner past…
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Marmalade Cafe - Sherman Oaks is an easy contemporary option in Sherman Oaks in Los Angeles to suggest without needing a long explanation.
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Mofongos is a contemporary restaurant in North Hollywood in Los Angeles that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.
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Fuego is a contemporary restaurant in Long Beach in Los Angeles that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.
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Tipsy Cow is a sensible contemporary call in Sherman Oaks in Los Angeles when you want something that usually lands well.
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Osteria La Buca - Sherman Oaks is an easy contemporary option in Sherman Oaks in Los Angeles to suggest without needing a long explanation.
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GRANVILLE is a contemporary restaurant in North Hollywood in Los Angeles that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.
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Tacolina suits a night out in Silver Lake when you want contemporary that feels grown-up without getting stiff.
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Barney's Beanery is a contemporary restaurant in Westwood in Los Angeles that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.
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Annie's Soul Delicious is a sensible contemporary call in Fairfax in Los Angeles when you want something that usually lands well.
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Sweet Butter is an easy contemporary option in Sherman Oaks in Los Angeles to suggest without needing a long explanation.
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Highly Likely Highland Park is a contemporary restaurant in Highland Park in Los Angeles that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.
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North Hollywood Diner is a sensible contemporary call in North Hollywood in Los Angeles when you want something that usually lands well.
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Alma is a contemporary restaurant in Fairfax in Los Angeles that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.
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Pijja Palace is the kind of contemporary room in Silver Lake you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.
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Kalaveras is the kind of contemporary room in Silver Lake you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.
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The Hideout is an easy contemporary option in Westwood in Los Angeles to suggest without needing a long explanation.
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Short Stories Restaurant is a contemporary restaurant in Fairfax in Los Angeles that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.
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The top restaurants for casual night in Los Angeles include Taqui Taqui, Buena Comida Mexicana, mala class. TastyPals curates these picks based on occasion tags, Google ratings, and editorial judgment.
Taqui Taqui is among the top-rated options for casual night in Los Angeles, with a 4.9 Google rating and 1,334 reviews.
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