Best Group Dinner Restaurants in Los Angeles : 124 Picks for 2026

Vegan•Culver City•moderate

Hey, Sunshine Kitchen

Before Jenny Engel and Heather Golden Ray opened Hey, Sunshine Kitchen in Culver City's Overland strip mall in 2023, they spent fifteen years running a plant-based cooking school — and that background is legible in how the menu is built.

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Trattoria Daly

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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Chinese•Highland Park•value

mala class

Mala Class arrived on York Boulevard in mid-2024 as a self-funded fast-casual bet on the idea that Highland Park was ready for Sichuan done with real conviction — not toned down, not Americanized, and not expensive.

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BETTY MARKET & RESTAURANT

BETTY MARKET & RESTAURANT is a sensible ethiopian call in Fairfax in Los Angeles when you want something that usually lands well.

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Ethio Kitchen & Coffee

Ethio Kitchen & Coffee is a ethiopian 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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4.9

Based on 98 reviews

Contemporary•Arts District•moderate

Malbec Arts District

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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Naar Kitchen

Naar Kitchen is a sensible persian call in Westwood in Los Angeles when you want something that usually lands well.

American•Arts District•moderate

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Girl & the Goat Los Angeles

First, a correction worth making loud: this isn't an Alhambra Chinese spot — Girl & the Goat lives at 555-3 Mateo Street in the Arts District, Stephanie Izard's West Coast follow-up to her Chicago original.

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Based on 3717 reviews

Seafood•Hollywood•moderate

MICHELIN ★

Holbox

Holbox occupies a counter stall inside Mercado La Paloma in South Central Los Angeles, and its reputation has grown steadily and without apparent effort into something that commands serious attention across the city's dining conversation.

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Based on 2731 reviews

Mini Kabob

Mini Kabob occupies a residential side street in Glendale at 313½ Vine — the address itself signals the scale.

Contemporary•Playa Vista•value

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Mom, Please

Mom, Please is a Ukrainian home-cooking café in Playa Vista with an origin story that reframes every bowl of borscht on the menu.

Korean•Arts District•moderate

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Baroo

Baroo is what happens when a chef refuses to let fine dining forget where it came from.

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Hengry

Hengry is doing something specific enough that it's worth understanding before you go: this is a fine-dining interpretation of Guizhou cuisine, a culinary tradition from China's southwest that remains genuinely underrepresented in the Sa…

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Tava House Restaurant

Glendale's Little Armenia is saturated with Armenian restaurants, which makes Tava House's staying power at 1110 S Glendale Ave genuinely meaningful.

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Mezzo Garden Restaurant

Mezzo Garden sits on Colorado Boulevard in Eagle Rock at the edge of LA's densest Armenian-American corridor, and it operates like a restaurant that genuinely knows its audience.

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Based on 182 reviews

Italian•Arts District•moderate

Propaganda Wine Bar

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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Kar Son

Kar Son is an easy chinese option in Chinatown in Los Angeles to suggest without needing a long explanation.

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Based on 75 reviews

Steakhouse•Highland Park•value

Cow Belly Modern Dining (Restaurant)

Cow Belly Modern Dining (Restaurant) is a sensible steakhouse call in Highland Park in Los Angeles when you want something that usually lands well.

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K-TOWN RESTAURANT

K-TOWN RESTAURANT is a sensible korean call in Koreatown in Los Angeles when you want something that usually lands well.

Californian•Hollywood•moderate

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The Butcher, The Baker, The Cappuccino Maker

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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Based on 4392 reviews

American•Playa Vista•value

Urban Plates

Urban Plates is an easy american option in Playa Vista in Los Angeles to suggest without needing a long explanation.

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Based on 4078 reviews

Seafood•Hollywood•moderate

Providence

Providence suits a night out in Hollywood when you want seafood that feels grown-up without getting stiff.

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Based on 1137 reviews

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Oste

Oste suits a night out when you want italian that feels grown-up without getting stiff.

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Based on 1035 reviews

Zhengyalov Hatz - Glendale

Glendale's Armenian corridor on Broadway has no shortage of kebab houses and lavash bakeries, but Zhengyalov Hatz occupies a lane entirely its own: it is, functionally, a one-dish restaurant built around zhengyalov hatz, the herb-stuffed…

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Rahel Ethiopian Vegan Cuisine

Rahel Ethiopian Vegan Cuisine on South Fairfax Avenue holds a genuinely singular position in Los Angeles dining: it is the only all-vegan restaurant inside Little Ethiopia, a distinction its founder built by design, not accident.

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Buna Ethiopian Restaurant & Market

Buna Ethiopian Restaurant & Market on South Fairfax Avenue is doing something specific and genuinely rare: it's functioning simultaneously as a neighborhood restaurant, a cultural artifact, and a working marketplace — all out of a space…

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Based on 476 reviews

여기요 YeoGiYo 한식전문 | Premium Korean Restaurant

여기요 YeoGiYo 한식전문 | Premium Korean Restaurant is a sensible korean call in Koreatown in Los Angeles when you want something that usually lands well.

Mexican•Playa Vista•value

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LOQUI

Loqui's origin story is the clearest signal of what it's about: a Mexican taco counter that grew out of the Tartine orbit in San Francisco before landing at the Platform development in Culver City in 2016, then migrating further west to…

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Based on 219 reviews

Italian•Culver City•moderate

Nardò Culver City

Nardò arrives in Culver City carrying something most Italian restaurants on the Westside only approximate: actual regional specificity.

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Brazilian•West Hollywood•moderate

SUSHISAMBA Los Angeles

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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Philippe The Original

Philippe The Original is one of the better-known chinese spots in Chinatown in Los Angeles, which makes it a practical place to start.

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Based on 12137 reviews

German•Arts District•moderate

Wurstküche

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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Based on 5354 reviews

Steakhouse•Hollywood•moderate

Musso & Frank Grill

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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Based on 3810 reviews

Middle Eastern•Arts District•moderate

Bavel

Ori Menashe and Genevieve Gergis built something in the Arts District that the Los Angeles dining conversation has not been able to stop referencing since it opened — a soaring, high-ceilinged room that photographers and date-planners re…

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Based on 1900 reviews

American•Arts District•moderate

Redbird

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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Based on 1811 reviews

Majordomo

David Chang's Los Angeles outpost lands in Chinatown with a concept that is structurally, almost philosophically, a group-dining proposition.

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Based on 1367 reviews

Cafe Vida

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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Based on 1317 reviews

Contemporary•West Hollywood•moderate

Soho House West Hollywood

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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Based on 1117 reviews

Mexican•Highland Park•value

BIB GOURMAND

Villa's Tacos Los Angeles

There is a particular irony in a critic who measures tasting menus against the cheque finding himself at a picnic table outside a Highland Park taqueria.

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Based on 1096 reviews

Italian•Playa Vista•value

Bacari PDR

Bacari PDR is a italian restaurant in Playa Vista in Los Angeles that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.

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Based on 1025 reviews

Tasty Dining

Tasty Dining is a chinese restaurant in San Gabriel Valley in Los Angeles that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.

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Based on 914 reviews

Contemporary•Hollywood•moderate

Running Goose

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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Awash

Awash is a ethiopian 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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Based on 365 reviews

Contemporary•Highland Park•value

Checker Hall

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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Based on 350 reviews

Californian•Hollywood•moderate

The Rooftop at The Sun Rose

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.

Italian•Hollywood•moderate

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Jemma Hollywood

Jemma Hollywood suits a night out in Hollywood when you want italian that feels grown-up without getting stiff.

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Meals By Genet

Meals By Genet is an easy ethiopian option in Fairfax in Los Angeles to suggest without needing a long explanation.

Contemporary•Playa Vista•value

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Playa Vista House | P.V. House

Playa Vista House | P.V. House is an easy contemporary option in Playa Vista in Los Angeles to suggest without needing a long explanation.

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Raffi's Place

Raffi's Place has held its ground as a Glendale institution long enough that regulars measure newcomers against it — and by most accounts, the comparison lands in Raffi's favor.

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Based on 6498 reviews

Italian•Arts District•moderate

Bestia

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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Based on 4027 reviews

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Hae Jang Chon Korean BBQ Restaurant

Hae Jang Chon Korean BBQ Restaurant is an easy korean option in Koreatown in Los Angeles to suggest without needing a long explanation.

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Based on 3456 reviews

Park's BBQ

Park's BBQ is an easy korean option in Koreatown in Los Angeles to suggest without needing a long explanation.

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Based on 2246 reviews

Italian•Culver City•moderate

Pasta Sisters

Pasta Sisters suits a night out in Culver City when you want italian that feels grown-up without getting stiff.

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Based on 2227 reviews

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L’Antica Pizzeria da Michele

L’Antica Pizzeria da Michele is a italian restaurant in Los Angeles that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.

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Based on 2065 reviews

Yang Chow Restaurant

Yang Chow Restaurant is a sensible chinese call in Chinatown in Los Angeles when you want something that usually lands well.

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Based on 1571 reviews

American•West Hollywood•moderate

GRANVILLE

GRANVILLE suits a night out in West Hollywood when you want american that feels grown-up without getting stiff.

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Based on 1553 reviews

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American•Arts District•moderate

Manuela

Manuela suits a night out in Arts District when you want american that feels grown-up without getting stiff.

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Based on 1486 reviews

Contemporary•Playa Vista•value

Runway Playa Vista

Runway Playa Vista is a contemporary restaurant in Playa Vista in Los Angeles that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.

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Based on 1485 reviews

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Elena's Greek Armenian Restaurant

Elena's Greek Armenian Restaurant is an easy armenian option in Glendale in Los Angeles to suggest without needing a long explanation.

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Based on 1253 reviews

Foo-Chow Restaurant

Foo-Chow Restaurant is a chinese restaurant in Chinatown in Los Angeles that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.

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Based on 1249 reviews

Italian•Arts District•moderate

BIB GOURMAND

The Factory Kitchen

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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Based on 1071 reviews

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Kobawoo House

Kobawoo House is a korean 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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Lalibela

Lalibela is a ethiopian 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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Hui Tou Xiang

Hui Tou Xiang is an easy chinese option in San Gabriel Valley in Los Angeles to suggest without needing a long explanation.

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Rosalind's

Rosalind's is an easy ethiopian option in Fairfax in Los Angeles to suggest without needing a long explanation.

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Based on 346 reviews

Laurel Grill

Laurel Grill is a contemporary pick in Culver City in Los Angeles when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.

Contemporary•Hollywood•moderate

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The Hollywood Rooftop Restaurant & Bar by Madame Tussauds

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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Based on 242 reviews

Contemporary•Highland Park•value

Amiga Amore

Amiga Amore is an easy contemporary option in Highland Park in Los Angeles to suggest without needing a long explanation.

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Veranda Restaurant

Veranda Restaurant is a sensible armenian call in Glendale in Los Angeles when you want something that usually lands well.

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Based on 202 reviews

Bacari Culver City

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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Based on 159 reviews

Korean•Highland Park•value

YICHA

YICHA is a korean 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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Sun Nong Dan

Sun Nong Dan has been a fixture on Western Avenue for over a decade, and its around-the-clock hours have made it one of Koreatown's defining late-night destinations.

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Based on 2488 reviews

Newport Seafood Restaurant

Newport Seafood Restaurant is a sensible chinese call in San Gabriel Valley in Los Angeles when you want something that usually lands well.

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Based on 2298 reviews

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Dan Sung Sa

Dan Sung Sa is a korean 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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Based on 2175 reviews

Contemporary•West Hollywood•moderate

Cecconi's West Hollywood

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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Based on 1551 reviews

Hangari Kalguksu

Hangari Kalguksu is a sensible korean call in Koreatown in Los Angeles when you want something that usually lands well.

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Based on 1487 reviews

Destroyer

Destroyer suits a night out in Culver City when you want contemporary that feels grown-up without getting stiff.

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Based on 1414 reviews

Full House Seafood

Full House Seafood is an easy chinese option in Chinatown in Los Angeles to suggest without needing a long explanation.

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Based on 1345 reviews

Italian•West Hollywood•moderate

Bottega Louie WEHO

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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Based on 1234 reviews

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Khinkali House

Khinkali House is a armenian restaurant in Glendale in Los Angeles that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.

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Based on 1091 reviews

Merkato

Merkato is a sensible ethiopian call in Fairfax in Los Angeles when you want something that usually lands well.

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Chong Qing Special Noodles

Chong Qing Special Noodles is a sensible chinese call in San Gabriel Valley in Los Angeles when you want something that usually lands well.

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Golden Tree Restaurant

Golden Tree Restaurant is a chinese restaurant in Chinatown in Los Angeles that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.

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Diplomat Restaurant

Diplomat Restaurant is an easy persian option in Westwood in Los Angeles to suggest without needing a long explanation.

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Based on 322 reviews

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Settecento DTLA

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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Broadway Cuisine

Broadway Cuisine is a sensible chinese call in Chinatown in Los Angeles when you want something that usually lands well.

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HanEuem by Chef Kang

HanEuem by Chef Kang is a sensible korean call in Koreatown in Los Angeles when you want something that usually lands well.

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JAAAAAN RESTAURANT

JAAAAAN RESTAURANT is a sensible armenian call in Glendale in Los Angeles when you want something that usually lands well.

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Perse Restaurant

Perse Restaurant is a persian 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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BCD Tofu House

BCD Tofu House is a dependable korean option in Koreatown that a lot of diners already know and return to.

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Based on 6354 reviews

104

Japanese•Hollywood•moderate

Yamashiro Hollywood

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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Based on 5746 reviews

105

Mexican•Playa Vista•value

SOL Mexican Cocina

SOL Mexican Cocina is a mexican restaurant in Playa Vista in Los Angeles that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.

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Based on 1963 reviews

106

Messob Ethiopian Restaurant

Messob Ethiopian Restaurant is an easy ethiopian option in Fairfax in Los Angeles to suggest without needing a long explanation.

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Based on 1200 reviews

107

Chengdu Taste

Chengdu Taste is an easy chinese option in San Gabriel Valley in Los Angeles to suggest without needing a long explanation.

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MIAN

MIAN is an easy chinese option in San Gabriel Valley in Los Angeles to suggest without needing a long explanation.

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Taste of Tehran Restaurant

Taste of Tehran Restaurant is a sensible persian call in Westwood in Los Angeles when you want something that usually lands well.

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Karas Dine-In

Karas Dine-In is an easy armenian option in Glendale in Los Angeles to suggest without needing a long explanation.

French•Culver City•moderate

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Simonette Restaurant

Simonette Restaurant is a french pick in Culver City in Los Angeles when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.

Burgers•Hollywood•moderate

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Mel's Drive-In Hollywood

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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4.2

Based on 4277 reviews

113

American•West Hollywood•moderate

SUR Restaurant and Lounge

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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4.2

Based on 3726 reviews

114

American•Playa Vista•value

Gulp Restaurant & Brew Co

Gulp Restaurant & Brew Co is a american restaurant in Playa Vista in Los Angeles that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.

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Xiang La Hui

Xiang La Hui is a chinese restaurant in San Gabriel Valley in Los Angeles that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.

Contemporary•Highland Park•value

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Highly Likely Highland Park

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.

Seafood•West Hollywood•moderate

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Catch

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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4.1

Based on 3370 reviews

118

Won Kok Restaurant

Won Kok Restaurant is a sensible chinese call in Chinatown in Los Angeles when you want something that usually lands well.

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4.1

Based on 3253 reviews

119

Toranj Restaurant

Toranj Restaurant is an easy persian option in Westwood in Los Angeles to suggest without needing a long explanation.

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JULIET

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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Golden Dragon Restaurant

Golden Dragon Restaurant is a chinese restaurant in Chinatown in Los Angeles that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.

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4.0

Based on 1598 reviews

122

Five Star Seafood Restaurant

Five Star Seafood Restaurant is a sensible chinese call in San Gabriel Valley in Los Angeles when you want something that usually lands well.

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3.9

Based on 1571 reviews

123

Shaherzad Restaurant

Shaherzad Restaurant is a persian 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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Lu's Garden

Lu's Garden is a sensible chinese call in San Gabriel Valley in Los Angeles when you want something that usually lands well.

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3.8

Based on 708 reviews