The best restaurants for cocktail in Los Angeles, curated by TastyPals editors.
Fast answers for diners searching for cocktail restaurants in Los Angeles. These first picks make the occasion easier to compare.
Strong pick for cocktail.
Known for Casa Branzino.
Known for Moitié Moitié (half four-cheese, half marinara with Cantabrian anchovies).
There's something reassuring about a Punjabi family kitchen that's been holding down Wilshire Boulevard since 1989 — India's Grill has outlasted trends most LA Indian spots chase, and the room knows it.
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Casa Ipanema is doing something specific inside the Millennium Biltmore that deserves more attention than the hotel-restaurant stigma usually allows: it's a Brazilian-inflected contemporary kitchen with a genuine theatrical identity, bui…
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Massilia is what happens when a restaurateur with eight years in Santa Monica and deep roots in Marseille decides that DTLA's Grand Avenue corridor is ready for the full expression of a city's cooking — not just its croissants.
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JINYA. West Hollywood is a japanese pick in West Hollywood in Los Angeles when you want dinner to feel a little more planned. Tokyo Shrimp Toast and A5 Japanese Wagyu Carpaccio with Caviar also give you a decent sense of the menu.
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Electric Karma is a indian pick in Los Angeles when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
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Zaytinya landed in Culver City in December 2024 as the first West Coast outpost of José Andrés Group's beloved Eastern Mediterranean concept — and its arrival at The Shay hotel on Washington Blvd is not an accident of real estate.
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Locanda Veneta has been doing the same thing since 1988, and that's precisely the point.
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Bar Covell didn't need to reinvent the wine bar — it just needed to make one that didn't feel like homework.
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DAMA arrived in the Fashion District in July 2018 and immediately rewired expectations for what Downtown LA nightlife could look like.
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Chulita suits a night out when you want mexican that feels grown-up without getting stiff.
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Mazal suits a night out when you want vegetarian that feels grown-up without getting stiff.
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Found Oyster arrived in East Hollywood with a specific argument to make: that the West Coast is capable of running an oyster bar where the raw bar is the point rather than a polished distraction before the kitchen takes over.
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Lasita Rotisserie & Natural Wine is the kind of wine bar room you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.
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TLV Tapas Bar is a cocktail bar pick in Los Angeles when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
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1010 Wine and Events suits a night out when you want wine bar that feels grown-up without getting stiff.
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Stir Crazy is a wine bar pick in Los Angeles when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
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What Cali Chilli is attempting at 200 S.
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Picala is an easy spanish option in Los Angeles to suggest without needing a long explanation.
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M Grill Brazilian Churrascaria is the kind of brazilian room you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.
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Zinqué is a smart brunch call when the morning is supposed to feel a little more like an occasion.
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Bodega Wine Bar is a smart brunch call when the morning is supposed to feel a little more like an occasion.
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Peking Tavern is the kind of chinese room you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.
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Cicada Restaurant and Lounge is the kind of italian room you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.
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Culina Ristorante and Caffè is the kind of italian room you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.
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Sage Blossom is a vietnamese restaurant in Los Angeles that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.
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Tom's Watch Bar - Los Angeles is a sensible sports bar call in Los Angeles when you want something that usually lands well.
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Tucked into the heart of DTLA on South Olive, Pitchoun!
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Fleming’s Prime Steakhouse & Wine Bar is a steakhouse pick in Los Angeles when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
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Spitz Mediterranean Street Food is an easy mediterranean option in Los Angeles to suggest without needing a long explanation.
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Ludo Lefebvre's Petit Trois sits in Hollywood operating on a specific and deliberate premise: that a counter-sized Parisian zinc bar, transplanted to Los Angeles without apology, is exactly what the city needs.
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Madre Restaurant is an easy mexican option in Los Angeles to suggest without needing a long explanation.
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HATCH is an easy japanese option in Los Angeles to suggest without needing a long explanation.
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Joyce is a strong brunch move in Los Angeles when you want the meal to feel worth leaving the house for.
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XUNTOS is a wine bar restaurant in Los Angeles that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.
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Sincerely Yours is an easy bar option in Los Angeles to suggest without needing a long explanation.
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El Compadre Restaurant of Hollywood is a sensible mexican call in Los Angeles when you want something that usually lands well.
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The Reef on the Water is a sensible american call in Los Angeles when you want something that usually lands well.
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Father's Office built its reputation on one specific, uncompromising idea: that a burger can be so carefully constructed that the chef has no obligation to let you change it.
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Nobu Los Angeles suits a night out when you want bar that feels grown-up without getting stiff.
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Ristorante Per L’Ora is a sensible italian call in Los Angeles when you want something that usually lands well.
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Bar Besito is a sensible spanish call in Los Angeles when you want something that usually lands well.
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Descanso Restaurant - Los Angeles is an easy mexican option in Los Angeles to suggest without needing a long explanation.
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Chosun Galbee is a korean pick in Los Angeles when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
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The Rooftop is a sensible bar call in Los Angeles when you want something that usually lands well.
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Good Clean Fun has quietly threaded together two things DTLA doesn't have enough of: a serious natural wine program and a kitchen that actually gives you a reason to stay past the second glass.
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Malbec Arts District is the kind of contemporary room in Arts District you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.
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Vaca DTLA is a sensible spanish call in Downtown in Los Angeles when you want something that usually lands well.
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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.
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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.
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Baroo is what happens when a chef refuses to let fine dining forget where it came from.
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What Claudio Villani and Yan have built in the Arts District is the specific kind of neighborhood wine bar that wine-literate cities spend decades wishing they had: a room shaped by serious credentials applied without pretension.
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The Butcher, The Baker, The Cappuccino Maker is a sensible californian call in Hollywood in Los Angeles when you want something that usually lands well.
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Providence suits a night out in Hollywood when you want seafood that feels grown-up without getting stiff.
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Beverly Bar earns its standing as the only bar in Beverly Hills' Golden Triangle — and that distinction is less a quirk than a mission statement.
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SUSHISAMBA's return to American dining after a decade-plus absence abroad — London, Dubai, Singapore — lands in West Hollywood with the kind of architectural statement that makes the concept legible from the valet line: 11,000 square fee…
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Wurstküche is the kind of german room in Arts District you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.
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Musso & Frank Grill is the kind of steakhouse room in Hollywood you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.
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Maccheroni Republic occupies a room on South Broadway in downtown Los Angeles that takes the trattoria idea seriously: tin ceilings, tiled walls, tall mirrors, the kind of interior that doesn't need a concept because it already has a cha…
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Seven Grand is the kind of bar room you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.
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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 re…
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Redbird is a american pick in Arts District in Los Angeles when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
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Sushi Gen is a japanese restaurant in Downtown in Los Angeles that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.
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Soho House West Hollywood is the kind of contemporary room in West Hollywood you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.
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Running Goose is a contemporary pick in Hollywood in Los Angeles when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
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The Wolves suits a night out when you want bar that feels grown-up without getting stiff.
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The Edmon is the kind of bar room in West Hollywood you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.
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The Rooftop at The Sun Rose is a californian pick in Hollywood in Los Angeles when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
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Jemma Hollywood suits a night out in Hollywood when you want italian that feels grown-up without getting stiff.
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Bottega Louie is a dependable italian option in Downtown that a lot of diners already know and return to.
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Bestia arrived in the Arts District more than a decade ago and is widely credited with reorienting what Los Angeles expected from Italian cooking — not red-sauce nostalgia, not minimalist modernism, but something more aggressive and ingr…
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71Above is a contemporary restaurant in Downtown in Los Angeles that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.
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GRANVILLE suits a night out in West Hollywood when you want american that feels grown-up without getting stiff.
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Manuela suits a night out in Arts District when you want american that feels grown-up without getting stiff.
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Housed in a transformed DTLA warehouse — exposed brick, cement columns, garage doors flung open to the loft-like room — The Factory Kitchen has spent over a decade making the case that a trattoria can earn its keep without theatrics.
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Rossoblu is a italian restaurant in Downtown in Los Angeles that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.
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Death & Co Los Angeles is a bar pick in Arts District in Los Angeles when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
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The Hollywood Rooftop Restaurant & Bar by Madame Tussauds is a contemporary pick in Hollywood in Los Angeles when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
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Cecconi's West Hollywood is the kind of contemporary room in West Hollywood you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.
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Bottega Louie WEHO is the kind of italian room in West Hollywood you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.
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Employees Only Cocktail Bar and Restaurant suits a night out in West Hollywood when you want californian that feels grown-up without getting stiff.
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Yamashiro Hollywood is a japanese pick in Hollywood in Los Angeles when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
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District is a sensible american call in Downtown in Los Angeles when you want something that usually lands well.
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Mel's Drive-In Hollywood is a burgers pick in Hollywood in Los Angeles when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
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SUR Restaurant and Lounge is a american pick in West Hollywood in Los Angeles when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
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Broken Shaker at Freehand Los Angeles is the kind of bar room you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.
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Catch is the kind of seafood room in West Hollywood you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.
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BADMAASH Downtown LA is a indian restaurant in Downtown 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 cocktail in Los Angeles include India's Grill, Casa Ipanema, Massilia - DTLA. TastyPals curates these picks based on occasion tags, Google ratings, and editorial judgment.
India's Grill is among the top-rated options for cocktail in Los Angeles, with a 9.8 Google rating and 6,330 reviews.
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