Los Angeles dinners where the room, the drive, and the meal line up especially well.
Fast answers for diners searching for date night restaurants in Los Angeles. These first picks make the occasion easier to compare.
Mutsu arrives on La Cienega with a philosophy baked into its name: mutsumi, the Japanese concept of harmony, specifically the kind that draws guests and chefs into genuine conversation, binds seasonal ingredients to tradition, and asks m…
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Okay Inak runs Sora as a one-man operation in the most literal sense — he is the chef, the server, the dishwasher, and the person who designed the room.
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Let's be honest about what Jumsim is and isn't.
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Downtown Los Angeles doesn't have many lunch spots built around a single chef's daily relationship with fish, but Te Isshoku, parked at the Bunker Hill Steps on West 5th Street, operates on exactly that premise.
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MUSUME is the kind of japanese room you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.
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The Wine Station is the kind of sommelier-run room that downtown Los Angeles has long needed more of — a thirty-four-seat bar built by Thibaud Duccini around a France-forward list and the sort of unhurried welcome that, by reputation, co…
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Vignette suits a night out in Studio City when you want global that feels grown-up without getting stiff.
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Melrose Ave has long attracted the kind of creative restlessness that makes a neighborhood worth returning to, and Roots Indian Bistro reads as a natural fit for that current.
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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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On 3rd Street, where the temptation is always to go big, Azai makes its case by going small.
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Lucia Mediterranean Grill earns its following in one of Downtown LA's more utilitarian stretches — the garment district on Wall Street, where the lunch crowd moves fast and the room doesn't ask much of the evening.
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Riwaaz Indian Cuisine occupies a serious footprint on South Broadway in Downtown LA — 750 seats spread across a main dining room and a mezzanine-level banquet hall — and that scale is part of the point.
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Pasha Mediterranean Cuisine is operating in a register that most Turkish-leaning spots in Los Angeles either miss entirely or abandon halfway through: the long table, the slow morning, the meal that arrives in waves.
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NAM Kitchen's Lomita outpost arrives with something most suburban strip-mall openings don't carry: a provable national reputation before the ink dried on the lease.
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On Wilshire Blvd in West L.A.'s dense restaurant corridor, Lotus Indian Cafe has staked out a position that's genuinely uncommon: a kitchen that treats traditional Indian comfort food and globe-hopping fusion as equally legitimate pursui…
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Chef Tomoki Hombe built his reputation across multiple Sushi Enya locations in LA before striking out on his own in 2023, and Sushi Tomoki on Cahuenga in Studio City reads like a precise distillation of everything he learned in those yea…
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Hollywood breeds a specific kind of concept restaurant — the kind where the story overshadows the plate.
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Jun Won Dak is one of those rare Koreatown operations built entirely around restraint — four dishes, a mother-and-son kitchen, and a room so small it barely registers as a room at all.
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Kitchen Bann suits a night out when you want korean that feels grown-up without getting stiff.
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Mayura Indian Restaurant commits to South Indian cooking in a city that habitually reduces the subcontinent's cuisine to a handful of North Indian staples — and that specificity is the whole point.
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Flavor of India has been doing northern Indian on Ventura Blvd since 1998, and the reason it's lasted is simpler than the awards-circuit places want it to be: the Chicken Tikka Masala has a real claim to being one of LA's best, and the B…
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On a stretch of West Pico that doesn't announce itself, Lucia keeps a cozy, low-key room — the kind of place where the décor nods toward the Mediterranean without lecturing you about it.
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Bollywood Cafe operates in a register that most Indian restaurants in Los Angeles either overshoot or ignore entirely: the honest, mid-priced neighbourhood room that doesn't perform exoticism for tourists or dial down spice for the cauti…
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Here's the thing about Vinh Loi Tofu: chef-owner Kevin Tran, the triathlete they call The Ironman, runs a place where the menu sprawls past 300 items but the real menu is whatever he decides you're eating.
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Zhangliang Malatang Westwood (张亮麻辣烫） is the kind of chinese room you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.
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NAM Kitchen - Gardena is a asian fusion pick in Los Angeles when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
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Curry In Hurry on West Pico Blvd is doing something specific and unapologetic: fast-format North Indian food at a price point — around $10–15 a plate — that treats the neighborhood rather than performs for it.
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Sticky Rice started in Grand Central Market in 2013, which tells you everything about its original premise: Thai street food stripped back to the counter, the wok, and the dish in front of you.
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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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Pa Ord is not in the business of seduction.
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What Umiai Hand Roll Sake Bar is building toward is a fairly specific argument: that the hand roll format, done with discipline, is a more honest expression of Japanese hospitality than the elaborate composed plates that dominate much of…
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What Chef Lee has built on South Santa Monica Blvd reads, on paper, like a provocation: a Thai bistro on the edge of Beverly Hills that reportedly refuses to soften its edges for the neighborhood, yet keeps its menu legible enough that n…
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Kenbey Sushi is a sushi pick in Los Angeles when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
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The 1917 at San Antonio Winery is the kind of wine bar room you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.
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Viet on Fletcher is a vietnamese pick in Los Angeles when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
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Seven seats, one counter, and Chef Brandon Go within arm's reach: Hayato makes no pretense of being anything but personal.
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CASA LEO is a contemporary pick in Los Feliz in Los Angeles when you want dinner to feel a little more planned. If A CASA LEO Signature Cocas is your kind of order, that is a good sign.
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Kippered is the kind of wine bar room you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.
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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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There's a particular kind of room that knows it's being watched, and BOA, perched on the Sunset Strip since 2008, has made peace with that.
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H&H Brazilian Steakhouse is the kind of steakhouse room you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.
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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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Palermo Italian Restaurant is a italian pick in Los Angeles when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
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Saigon Dish Vietnamese Restaurant suits a night out when you want vietnamese that feels grown-up without getting stiff.
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Flavor of India - West Hollywood suits a night out when you want indian that feels grown-up without getting stiff.
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Good Neighbor Restaurant is the kind of family room you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.
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The Vegan Joint is a vegan pick in Los Angeles when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
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Moohan sits on Wilshire in the heart of Koreatown — not tucked away, not trying to be coy about what it is.
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On West Sunset in Hollywood, Vala Kitchen makes a claim that's both narrow and audacious: it positions itself as the only restaurant in Los Angeles serving Kabab Torsh, a dish rooted in the Gilan region of Northern Iran.
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On a stretch of Robertson Boulevard where fusion concepts come and go, A Food Affair has been quietly doing the opposite since 2012 — cooking French food the way a French couple actually cooks it at home.
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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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Carmel on Melrose is named after Tel Aviv's Shuk HaCarmel, and the ambition is literal rather than atmospheric: Chef Asaf Maoz is trying to relocate the specific energy of that outdoor market — its Levantine layering, its bread culture,…
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There's a particular kind of restaurant that Venice needs more of: one built around the conviction that good food shouldn't require a reservation, a valet, or a forty-dollar entrée.
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Bé Ù - Vietnamese Street Food & Comfort Food is the kind of vietnamese room you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.
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Suehiro DTLA is the kind of ramen room you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.
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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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Baba's Vegan Cafe is what happens when a decade of deep community roots finally gets a permanent address.
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Damsot doesn't arrive at 3377 Wilshire quietly.
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Jincook is the kind of korean room you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.
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Green Grill Mediterranean Cuisine is a mediterranean pick in Los Angeles when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
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The Neighborhood Cafe is the kind of cafe room you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.
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Melanie Restaurant is the kind of wine bar room you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more. Burrata & Heirloom Tomato and Seared Scallops also give you a decent sense of the menu.
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La Nena Cantina is the kind of mexican room you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.
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Haru Sushi & Izakaya is the kind of japanese izakaya room you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.
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Voodoo Vin suits a night out when you want wine bar that feels grown-up without getting stiff.
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Phở 87 is the kind of vietnamese room you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.
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Carnival Restaurant is the kind of lebanese room you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.
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Star of India is a indian pick in Los Angeles when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
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Âu Lạc suits a night out when you want vegan that feels grown-up without getting stiff.
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Bombay Beach operates without the apologetic softening that flattens too many mid-range Indian restaurants in Los Angeles.
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Steak 48 Beverly Hills arrives on Wilshire Boulevard carrying the full weight of its founders' legacy — Jeffrey and Michael Mastro, the James Beard-nominated brothers who built Mastro's Steakhouse into a Southern California institution b…
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Hanu K BBQ occupies an unlikely address — Suite 104 in a Korean spa building on West 6th Street, a room currently sharing its building with ongoing renovations — and somehow makes it work.
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Pine & Crane's DTLA outpost on South Park's Grand Avenue isn't trying to be a destination restaurant in the conspicuous sense — it's trying to be the kind of place a neighborhood actually needs.
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Paul's Kitchen has been doing one thing since 1946, and it hasn't needed to change the pitch: California Cantonese cooking at downtown Los Angeles prices, served in a room that has outlasted every trend the city has thrown at it.
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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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Hama Sushi suits a night out when you want sushi that feels grown-up without getting stiff.
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Carlitos Gardel Argentine Steakhouse is the kind of steakhouse room you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.
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LA Vegan suits a night out when you want vegan that feels grown-up without getting stiff.
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Jade Wok is a chinese pick in Los Angeles when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
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Chulita suits a night out when you want mexican that feels grown-up without getting stiff.
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Chi Spacca is the kind of italian room you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.
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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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Tandoori Eats is a indian pick in Los Angeles when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
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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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The Sisters Cafe Vietnamese & Asian Fusion (PHO) suits a night out when you want vietnamese that feels grown-up without getting stiff.
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KingChang-La is the kind of korean barbecue room you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.
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There's a particular honesty to a kitchen that has spent sixty years selling noodles and arrives in Los Angeles asking to be judged on exactly that.
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Thien Huong Restaurant is a vietnamese pick in Los Angeles when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
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La Azteca suits a night out when you want mexican that feels grown-up without getting stiff.
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Mykonos Greek Grill is a greek pick in Los Angeles when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
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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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Loukà Beverly Hills is the kind of greek room you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.
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江戸前鮨 㐂扇 Sushi Kisen is a sushi pick in Los Angeles when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
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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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Sushi Palace suits a night out when you want japanese that feels grown-up without getting stiff.
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Wife and the Somm suits a night out when you want wine bar that feels grown-up without getting stiff.
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Kinjiro is a japanese pick in Los Angeles when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
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Sushi Zo Downtown Los Angeles is a sushi pick in Los Angeles when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
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Yasu Guys is a restaurant pick in Los Angeles when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
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Le Comptoir is a french pick in Los Angeles when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
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Good Thai Kitchen suits a night out when you want thai that feels grown-up without getting stiff. Tom Yum Soup and Seafood Soup also give you a decent sense of the menu.
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At $350 before drinks, tax, and tip—call it $500 a head—715 sits firmly in the territory where every course must answer for itself.
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The Kettle suits a night out in Manhattan Beach when you want seafood that feels grown-up without getting stiff.
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Bulgogi Hut is the kind of korean barbecue room you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.
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1212 Santa Monica suits a night out in Santa Monica when you want seafood that feels grown-up without getting stiff.
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Kura Revolving Sushi Bar suits a night out when you want asian that feels grown-up without getting stiff.
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Urban Masala Indian Restaurant suits a night out when you want indian that feels grown-up without getting stiff.
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SUGARFISH by sushi nozawa suits a night out when you want sushi that feels grown-up without getting stiff.
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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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Aliki's Greek Taverna suits a night out when you want greek that feels grown-up without getting stiff.
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Soowon Galbi is the kind of korean barbecue room you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.
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Angelini Osteria suits a night out when you want italian that feels grown-up without getting stiff.
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Downtown steakhouses can feel like conference rooms with white tablecloths, but Nick + Stef's has the good sense to put its dry-aging room on display — the only one in Los Angeles, and a quietly theatrical anchor for the room.
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Pa Ord Noodle suits a night out when you want thai that feels grown-up without getting stiff.
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The Fox and Hounds is a global pick in Studio City in Los Angeles when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
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Genwa Korean BBQ (Mid Wilshire) is the kind of korean barbecue room you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.
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Sol Agave LA LIVE suits a night out when you want mexican that feels grown-up without getting stiff.
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Chi's Chinese Cuisine suits a night out when you want chinese that feels grown-up without getting stiff.
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The Great Greek operates on a register that most mid-price Greek spots in Los Angeles seem to have quietly abandoned: the conviction that the meal itself is the event.
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Sidewalk Grill is a mediterranean pick in Los Angeles when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
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KTOWN PHO suits a night out when you want vietnamese that feels grown-up without getting stiff.
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TAVERNA at The Mar Vista is a greek pick in Los Angeles when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
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Marouch Restaurant is the kind of lebanese room you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.
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There's a particular pleasure in a room that doesn't pretend.
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Hamasaku is a sushi pick in Los Angeles when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
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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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Jon Yao's West Adams tasting menu has built a reputation as one of the most intellectually serious Taiwanese-inflected dining rooms in Los Angeles — and that description is less a compliment than an accurate account of what the kitchen i…
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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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Antico Nuovo is a italian pick in Los Angeles when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
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Melisse is Josiah Citrin's long-running tasting-menu room in Santa Monica, and its reputation — built over two decades of LA fine dining — rests on a specific and sustained premise: classical French technique applied to California's seas…
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ROSETTA Osteria & Crudo Bar is a italian pick in Studio City in Los Angeles when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
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Liu's Cafe makes no pretence at occasion, and that honesty is precisely its virtue.
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Fermentation isn't a garnish at Grá — it's the operating principle.
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Josef Centeno's downtown Los Angeles project, Orsa & Winston, occupies a conceptual space that very few restaurants in this city have seriously attempted: an Italian-Japanese tasting menu that, by all consistent accounts, treats both cul…
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Loreto sits in Echo Park as a wood-fired Italian room that has, by consistent account, figured out something most casual neighborhood restaurants fumble: how to accommodate a table of two and a table of eight with equal competence.
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Vespertine is Jordan Kahn's Culver City project, and by most accounts it operates less as a restaurant than as a composed total environment — architecture, score, light, and sequencing folded into a single intentional work.
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Tuning Fork LA is the kind of californian room in Studio City you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.
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Alisa wine & friends suits a night out when you want mediterranean that feels grown-up without getting stiff.
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LEE GA 이가 is the kind of korean room you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.
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Pho La Vache is a vietnamese pick in Los Angeles when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
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Rasarumah is a asian pick in Los Angeles when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
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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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Taylor's Steak House is a steakhouse pick in Los Angeles when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
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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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LA Prime Steakhouse is the kind of steakhouse room you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.
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Il Cielo is a italian pick in Los Angeles when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
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Mirate is the kind of mexican room in Los Feliz you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.
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Fia Restaurant is a seafood pick in Santa Monica in Los Angeles when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
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brewco social suits a night out in Manhattan Beach when you want seafood that feels grown-up without getting stiff.
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Petros Restaurant suits a night out when you want greek that feels grown-up without getting stiff.
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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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The Ivy suits a night out when you want californian that feels grown-up without getting stiff.
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Bistro Na's is a chinese pick in Los Angeles when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
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Katsuya suits a night out when you want sushi that feels grown-up without getting stiff.
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La Boucherie suits a night out when you want steakhouse that feels grown-up without getting stiff.
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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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Mastro's Ocean Club suits a night out when you want steakhouse that feels grown-up without getting stiff.
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Sushi n Matcha Sho is a japanese pick in West Hollywood in Los Angeles when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
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KUSANO is the kind of japanese room in Culver City you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.
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Mori Nozomi is a japanese pick in Los Angeles when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
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Cafe Landwer is the kind of contemporary room in Brentwood you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.
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Osusume Fumio is the kind of japanese room in Echo Park you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.
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Lincoln Heights doesn't get nearly enough credit as a dining neighborhood, and Trattoria Daly — a Latinx-owned Italian kitchen on Daly Street — is a useful corrective to the idea that Italian food in L.A.
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CULVER&MAIN is the kind of contemporary room in Culver City you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.
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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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The Joint Seafood & Uoichiba (DTLA) suits a night out in Little Tokyo when you want seafood that feels grown-up without getting stiff.
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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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Let me be honest about what this is and isn't.
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BOA's Manhattan Beach outpost, open since October 2023, wants to be a steakhouse that doesn't feel like one — chic interiors, an open-air feel, craft cocktails, the kind of room built for a celebration that runs long.
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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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Neighborly is the kind of contemporary room in Brentwood you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.
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Brunch & Sip LA Lounge is the kind of contemporary room in Studio City you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.
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Nick's Pasadena suits a night out in Pasadena when you want american that feels grown-up without getting stiff.
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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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Fishing With Dynamite is a seafood pick in Manhattan Beach in Los Angeles when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
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Tar & Roses is the kind of californian room in Santa Monica you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.
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Oste suits a night out when you want italian that feels grown-up without getting stiff.
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The Curious Palate occupies a specific lane in the Santa Monica dining landscape and commits to it fully: a farm-sourced, scratch-made contemporary kitchen on the third-floor dining deck of Santa Monica Place, steps from where the old Ar…
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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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Santo arrived on Sunset Boulevard with a specific thesis: that the Japanese-Mexican flavor affinities long explored in Mexico City's Roma Norte belong on the Silver Lake table too.
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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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Descend into the basement of a nondescript First Street office building and you'll find one of Little Tokyo's most serious propositions: a 12-seat Edomae counter under Itamae Yoshiyuki Inoue, who trained at Sushi Ginza Onodera and Mori S…
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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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Fisherman's Outlet suits a night out when you want seafood that feels grown-up without getting stiff.
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Andre's is a italian pick in Mid-Wilshire in Los Angeles when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
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FISHBAR suits a night out in Manhattan Beach when you want seafood that feels grown-up without getting stiff.
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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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Tin Roof Bistro is a seafood pick in Manhattan Beach in Los Angeles when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
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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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La Boheme is a californian pick in Mid-Wilshire in Los Angeles when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
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Russell's suits a night out in Pasadena when you want american that feels grown-up without getting stiff.
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KazuNori: The Original Hand Roll Bar suits a night out in Santa Monica when you want japanese that feels grown-up without getting stiff.
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Old Pasadena suits a night out in Pasadena when you want contemporary that feels grown-up without getting stiff.
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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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Manhattan Beach Post suits a night out in Manhattan Beach when you want seafood that feels grown-up without getting stiff.
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Ca Del Sole suits a night out in Studio City when you want italian that feels grown-up without getting stiff.
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Nick's Manhattan Beach is a seafood pick in Manhattan Beach in Los Angeles when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
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Cafe Vida is the kind of contemporary room in Culver City you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.
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This La Brea brunch room has a love story baked into the name: owners Vinny and Mindy Kinnes met on the Sunset Strip, reconnected online, and opened the café together in 2017, with Mindy running the kitchen.
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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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Yuko Kitchen Miracle Mile suits a night out in Mid-Wilshire when you want japanese that feels grown-up without getting stiff.
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The Dresden is not trying to be anything other than exactly what it has been since Carl Ferraro remodeled it in the 1960s — a time-capsule supper club where Los Feliz's old guard and a rotating cast of film-industry regulars still drop i…
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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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Loupiotte Kitchen suits a night out in Los Feliz when you want french 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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SUSHIZANMAI LA is the kind of japanese room in Koreatown you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.
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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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Houston's suits a night out in Pasadena when you want american that feels grown-up without getting stiff.
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The Strand House suits a night out in Manhattan Beach when you want seafood that feels grown-up without getting stiff.
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Water Grill is a seafood pick in Los Angeles when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
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Pasta Sisters suits a night out in Culver City when you want italian that feels grown-up without getting stiff.
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Firefly is the kind of american room in Studio City you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.
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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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The Little Door is the kind of french room in Mid-Wilshire you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.
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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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UOVO Marina del Rey is a seafood pick in Marina del Rey in Los Angeles when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
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The Six Social House suits a night out in Studio City when you want american that feels grown-up without getting stiff.
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Alexander's Steakhouse Pasadena is a steakhouse pick in Pasadena in Los Angeles when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
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Met Him At A Bar is the kind of italian room in Mid-Wilshire you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.
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Botanica Restaurant and Market is a californian pick in Silver Lake in Los Angeles when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
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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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Laurel Grill is a contemporary pick in Culver City 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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Meyers Manx Cafe is a contemporary pick in Mid-Wilshire in Los Angeles when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
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Bacari Culver City is a contemporary pick in Culver City in Los Angeles when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
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Sora Brentwood suits a night out in Brentwood when you want contemporary that feels grown-up without getting stiff.
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Water Grill is a seafood pick in Santa Monica in Los Angeles when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
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Meat On Ocean is a steakhouse pick in Santa Monica in Los Angeles when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
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The Front Yard operates out of The Garland Hotel in Studio City, and what separates it from the category of hotel restaurants you feel obligated to mention is the outdoor space itself — a properly landscaped garden patio that functions a…
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Casita Del Campo is a mexican pick in Silver Lake 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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Destroyer suits a night out in Culver City when you want contemporary that feels grown-up without getting stiff.
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Figaro Bistrot is a french pick in Los Feliz in Los Angeles when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
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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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The Raymond 1886 - Modern American Cuisine & Craft Cocktails in Pasadena is a american pick in Pasadena in Los Angeles when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
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Takami Sushi & Robata Restaurant is a japanese pick in Koreatown in Los Angeles when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
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Messhall Kitchen is the kind of barbecue room in Los Feliz you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.
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The Penthouse suits a night out in Santa Monica when you want californian that feels grown-up without getting stiff.
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Izakaya Osen is the kind of japanese room in Silver Lake you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.
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Vitello's Restaurant is the kind of italian room in Studio City you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.
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Katsuya Brentwood suits a night out in Brentwood when you want japanese that feels grown-up without getting stiff.
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Nalu Vida Venice Beach suits a night out in Venice when you want american that feels grown-up without getting stiff.
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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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FIG RESTAURANT suits a night out in Santa Monica when you want american that feels grown-up without getting stiff.
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UOVO Mid-Wilshire suits a night out in Mid-Wilshire when you want italian that feels grown-up without getting stiff.
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Telefèric Barcelona Los Angeles is a spanish pick in Brentwood in Los Angeles when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
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Esperanza Cocina de la Playa is a seafood pick in Manhattan Beach in Los Angeles when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
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The Surfing Fox suits a night out in Santa Monica when you want californian that feels grown-up without getting stiff.
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UOVO - Studio City is a italian pick in Studio City in Los Angeles when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
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Settecento DTLA is the kind of italian room you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.
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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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The Venice Whaler is a seafood pick in Venice in Los Angeles when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
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Élephante is the kind of italian room in Santa Monica you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.
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The Warehouse Restaurant is a seafood pick in Marina del Rey in Los Angeles when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
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The Lobster is a seafood pick in Santa Monica in Los Angeles when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
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Fig Tree suits a night out in Venice when you want american that feels grown-up without getting stiff.
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Belles Beach House is a japanese pick in Venice in Los Angeles when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
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Beachside Restaurant & Bar suits a night out in Marina del Rey when you want seafood that feels grown-up without getting stiff.
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LouLou Santa Monica is the kind of french room in Santa Monica you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.
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Brizo Bar and Restaurant suits a night out in Marina del Rey when you want seafood that feels grown-up without getting stiff.
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Simonette Restaurant is a french pick in Culver City in Los Angeles when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
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COD Seafood House & Raw Bar is a seafood pick in Los Angeles when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
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Cast & Plow is the kind of seafood room in Marina del Rey you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.
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West Restaurant & Lounge suits a night out in Brentwood when you want californian that feels grown-up without getting stiff.
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Toscana Brentwood suits a night out in Brentwood when you want italian that feels grown-up without getting stiff.
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Encanto Restaurant is a mexican pick in Los Feliz in Los Angeles when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
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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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ALTO Fire to Table is a contemporary pick in Studio City in Los Angeles when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
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San Pedro Fish Market and Restaurant is a seafood pick in Los Angeles when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
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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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SALT Restaurant & Bar suits a night out in Marina del Rey when you want seafood that feels grown-up without getting stiff.
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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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Jon & Vinny's Brentwood suits a night out in Brentwood when you want italian that feels grown-up without getting stiff.
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Highly Likely Studio City is a contemporary pick in Studio City in Los Angeles when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
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Killer Shrimp suits a night out in Marina del Rey when you want seafood that feels grown-up without getting stiff.
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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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Whiskey Red's suits a night out in Marina del Rey when you want seafood that feels grown-up without getting stiff.
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An Indian sports bar inside a Silver Lake Comfort Inn shouldn't earn one of the city's most coveted reservations, yet Pijja Palace has done exactly that — a Bib Gourmand in 2022, a James Beard Best New Restaurant nod, and Eater calling i…
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Videre Rooftop Restaurant & Bar suits a night out in Mid-Wilshire when you want american that feels grown-up without getting stiff.
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All Time is the kind of contemporary room in Los Feliz 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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Paloma Venice is the kind of italian room in Venice you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.
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JULIET is the kind of contemporary room in Culver City you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.
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Guide • los angeles
Los Angeles date-night restaurants that feel intimate, composed, and worth crossing town for — from a Middle Eastern Arts District room to a French-Californian gem in Hollywood.
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The top restaurants for date night in Los Angeles include Mutsu, SORA Craft Kitchen, Jumsim. TastyPals curates these picks based on occasion tags, Google ratings, and editorial judgment.
Mutsu is among the top-rated options for date night in Los Angeles, with a 10.0 Google rating and 321 reviews.
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