Food & Drink
Your guide to dining and drinking in Los Angeles, including restaurant and bar reviews, restaurant openings, and lists of LA's best restaurants & bars.
- First Look: Fishing With Dynamite
- First Look: Sticky Rice
- Restaurant review: Circa
- Bar review: Public School 310
- Best beer bars
First Look: Fishing With Dynamite
Next door to the neighborhood favorite MB Post, Fishing with Dynamite is chef David LeFevre's ode to the ocean.
First Look: Sticky Rice
Take a look at the newest addition to LA's oldest, open-air market.
Restaurant review: Circa
Manhattan Beach's newest restaurant from chef Octavio Becerra and mixologist Julian Cox.
Rated as: 1/5
Bar review: Public School 310
This education-themed gastropub is the latest addition to Culver City's new wave of bar-restaurants.
Rated as: 3/5
Best beer bars
From biergartens to brew-pubs, here are LA's best beer bars for local and international craft brews.
Recent restaurant and bar reviews
Rustic Canyon
- Rated as: 4/5
- Price band: 3/4
- Critics choice
With new chef Jeremy Fox, the neighborhood favorite is now the best it’s ever been.
- Santa Monica
AOC
- Rated as: 3/5
- Price band: 2/4
- Critics choice
The neighborhood wine bar is back in the limelight with a charming relocated home.
- Mid-City West
Allumette
- Rated as: 3/5
- Critics choice
Chef Miles Thompson offers beautiful, small-portion plates with unexpected flavor pairings.
- Echo Park
Angel City Brewery
- Rated as: 4/5
- Critics choice
The local brewery finds a new home in Downtown's Arts District.
- Downtown
Hinoki & the Bird
- Rated as: 3/5
David Myers' stunning, new restaurant is a welcome addition to Century City.
- Century City
- Koreatown
RivaBella
- Rated as: 3/5
With a Tuscan-inspired patio and Italian plates from Gino Angelini, this eatery is easy to like.
- West Hollywood
- Atwater Village
Black Hogg
- Rated as: 2/5
The chef-driven restaurant offers a short but inspired menu and a newly added full bar.
- Silver Lake
The Black Cat
- Rated as: 4/5
- Critics choice
This Silver Lake makes its resurrection as an upscale, polished gastropub.
- Silver Lake
Restaurants and bars on the Eastside
Beer Belly
- Price band: 2/4
Expect ear-splitting rock-n-roll, grease-dripping grilled cheese and a well-curated craft beer list.
- Koreatown
Umamicatessen
- Price band: 2/4
Umamicastessen is a sprawl, both in space and conceit with five different kitchens and menus.
- Downtown
Red Hill
- Price band: 2/4
Echo Park's answer to a well-priced, casual, neighborhood restaurant with friendly service.
- Echo Park
Good Girl Dinette
- Price band: 2/4
Good Girl Dinette is where Vietnamese comfort food meets a somewhat refined diner experience.
- Highland Park
Bar Stella
- Price band: 3/4
Café Stella mix craft cocktails in a Baja-Californian guesthouse decked in Caribbean-style furniture.
- Silver Lake
Las Perlas
- Price band: 2/4
At this Downtown den, Mexican kitsch meets psychedelic rabbit murals with an impressive list of tequilas and mescals.
- Downtown
Thirsty Crow
- Price band: 2/4
Veterans of the city's cocktail scene 1933 Group run this Sunset Blvd saloon that whiskey lovers like to call home.
- Silver Lake
Mohawk Bend
- Price band: 2/4
Beer enthusiasts can choose from 72 California beers on tap at this vegan-friendly gasto pub in Echo Park.
- Echo Park
Restaurants and bars on the Westside
Cooks County
- Price band: 3/4
Every neighborhood needs a low-key, unpretentious, farm-to-table cafe like Cooks County.
- Mid-City West
The Tasting Kitchen
- Price band: 3/4
Casey Lane's Abbot Kinney restaurant focuses on a tight menu of seasonal dishes.
- Venice
Lukshon
- Price band: 2/4
Sang Yoon's Lukshon is an upscale and polished restaurant that reinterprets Southeast Asian flavors.
- Culver City
Wolfgang Puck at Hotel Bel-Air
- Price band: 4/4
The restaurant at Hotel Bel-Air is once again, finally, the most glamorous in town.
- Bel Air
Shorebar
- Price band: 2/4
If Cape Cod was the epicenter of craft cocktails, Shorebar would be its premier yacht club.
- Santa Monica
Blind Barber
- Price band: 2/4
Joshua Boyd, Adam Kirsch and Jeff Laub take their NYC barbershop/cocktail show to Culver City.
- Culver City
Corner Door
- Price band: 2/4
- Critics choice
A neighborhood place where everybody knows—or should know—your name.
- Culver City
- Culver City
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