LA restaurant reviews: Where to eat in Los Angeles
Time Out dishes on the latest restaurants in Los Angeles trying to make their mark. Read our LA restaurant reviews to find out if they hit the spot.
Chirashi sushi at Spago Photograph: VIctor Leung
In a city where restaurants are as varied as its neighborhoods, there's never a shortage of places to dine in LA. From rustic, seasonal cooking on Abbot Kinney to special occasion dinners at luxe hotels, check out our LA restaurant reviews to discover the city's newest and best places to eat.
LA restaurant reviews
Littlefork
- Rated as: 4/5
- Price band: 2/4
Hollywood gets a breath of fresh air with chef Jason Travi's inspired ode to seafood dishes of the Atlantic Northeast.
- Hollywood
Bar Amá
- Rated as: 3/5
- Price band: 2/4
Josef Centeno, the top-notch toque of the popular Bäco Mercat, upgrades down-home Tex-Mex dishes.
- Downtown
Coco Laurent
- Price band: 3/4
This lofty Downtown French bistro disappoints with flavorless food and an underwhelming dining experience.
- Downtown
Yamakase
- Rated as: 5/5
- Price band: 4/4
- Critics choice
Dive into this eight-seat, invite-only sushi restaurant, a Japanese omakase experience unlike any other.
- Palms
Bestia
- Rated as: 4/5
- Price band: 2/4
- Critics choice
Ori Menashe's Arts District ristorante is white-hot hit.
- Downtown
Alma
- Rated as: 4/5
- Price band: 3/4
- Critics choice
Chef Ari Taymor combines hyper-seasonality and modernism, which works startlingly well.
- Downtown
Le Comptoir
- Rated as: 2/5
- Price band: 3/4
Gary Menes offers a five-course, $55 prix-fixe menu of ingredients sourced from local farms.
- Glendale
Spago of Beverly Hills
- Rated as: 3/5
- Price band: 4/4
With a cross-cultural bill of fare and modernized dining room, this is the new Spago.
- Beverly Hills
Osteria Drago
- Rated as: 3/5
- Price band: 3/4
Sunset Boulevard's fresh and modernized take on chef Celestino Drago's now shuttered Enoteca Drago
- West Hollywood
Nobu Malibu
- Rated as: 4/5
- Price band: 3/4
- Critics choice
Nobu's new Malibu outpost wins for Best Ocean View, Best Romantic Getaway, Best City Escape...
- Malibu
The Hart and the Hunter
- Rated as: 3/5
- Price band: 2/4
Inside the Palihotel, the Hart and Hunter's menu suggests an entirely different place: the South.
- West Hollywood
Laurel Hardware
- Rated as: 1/5
- Price band: 3/4
Laurel Hardware is beautiful, but like the blonde bombshell who looks good in a bikini, there isn't much going on upstairs.
- West Hollywood
MessHall
- Rated as: 2/5
- Price band: 3/4
The theme here is glorified summer camp food, improving upon All-American comfort favorites.
- Los Feliz
The Parish
- Rated as: 3/5
- Price band: 2/4
- Critics choice
The Parish is one of the latest additions to Downtown’s already white-hot dining scene.
- Downtown
n/naka
- Rated as: 2/5
- Price band: 4/4
N/naka has settled into a low-key groove while becoming one of the most difficult reservations in town.
- Culver City
L & E Oyster Bar
- Rated as: 3/5
- Price band: 2/4
L&E Oyster Bar channels the spirit of an old-school oyster shack.
- Silver Lake
Superba Snack Bar
- Rated as: 3/5
- Price band: 3/4
Chef Jason Neroni lands in Venice at's Superba Snack Bar, a self-defined “modern pastaria.”
- Venice
Tom Bergin's Tavern
- Rated as: 3/5
- Price band: 2/4
The revamped, 63-year-old Tom Bergin's maintain the tavern's history while modernizing its experience.
- Mid-City West
Salt's Cure
- Rated as: 3/5
- Critics choice
The idea behind Salt’s Cure: use ingredients grown and raised in California.
- West Los Angeles
- Downtown
- Downtown
Plan Check
- Rated as: 3/5
- Price band: 2/4
Go for salty beer nuts, fried chicken served with sweet yam preserves and burgers.
- West Los Angeles
Red Hill
- Rated as: 2/5
- Price band: 2/4
Echo Park's properly casual Red Hill might be everything the neighborhood wants it to be.
- Echo Park
Tar & Roses
- Rated as: 4/5
- Critics choice
You can smell the wood-fired grill from a block away. It’s an irresistible siren call.
- Santa Monica
BierBeisl
- Rated as: 4/5
- Price band: 3/4
A cozy, unassuming Beverly Hills restaurant serving Austrian fare from Bernhard Mairinger.
- Beverly Hills
Bäco Mercat
- Rated as: 4/5
- Critics choice
What started as a happy-hour snack has grown into one of the hottest restaurants in town.
- Downtown
Fundamental LA
- Rated as: 3/5
- Price band: 2/4
Fundamental LA makes the sort of sandwich that you wish you could make at home.
- Westwood
Freddy Smalls
- Rated as: 3/5
- Price band: 2/4
West LA's Freddy Smalls is a neighborhood bar and kitchen, in that order.
- West Los Angeles
Cooks County
- Rated as: 3/5
Every neighborhood needs a low-key, unpretentious, farm-to-table cafe like Cooks County.
- Mid-City West
The Spice Table
- Rated as: 3/5
- Price band: 2/4
Bryan Ng’s ode to Singaporean and Vietnamese street food in Downtown.
- Downtown
Eveleigh
- Rated as: 3/5
- Critics choice
The Sunset Strip's newest restaurant that's actually really good.
- West Hollywood
- Koreatown
Sotto
- Rated as: 3/5
The wood-burning oven is the heart and soul of this basement Italian restaurant.
- West Los Angeles
Tsujita
- Rated as: 4/5
- Price band: 2/4
- Critics choice
Join the lunchtime crowd for some of the best tsukemen ramen in town.
- West Los Angeles
Good Girl Dinette
- Rated as: 3/5
- Price band: 2/4
Vietnamese comfort food meets a somewhat refined diner experience.
- Highland Park
Playa
- Rated as: 4/5
- Price band: 2/4
Master of Southwestern American cuisine Chef John Sedlar offers a casual, playful spot.
- Mid-City West
ink.
- Rated as: 4/5
- Critics choice
Eating at Michael Voltaggio's Ink is a riot of fun and almost always stunningly delicious.
- West Hollywood
Lukshon
- Rated as: 4/5
Sang Yoon's Lukshon is an upscale and polished restaurant that reinterprets Southeast Asian flavors.
- Culver City
- West Hollywood
Red Medicine
- Rated as: 3/5
Jordan Kahn's, one of the city's most inventive chefs, Vietnamese-inspired eatery.
- Beverly Hills
Tasting Kitchen
- Rated as: 4/5
- Price band: 3/4
Casey Lane's restaurant focuses on a tight menu of seasonal dishes.
- Venice
Providence
- Rated as: 5/5
- Critics choice
Very few restaurants achieve the level of grace shown at Providence.
- Mid-City West
Son of a Gun
- Rated as: 4/5
Walking into Vinny Dotolo and Jon Shook’s sophomore restaurant feels like walking into a sea captain’s quarters.
- Mid-City West
Picca
- Rated as: 3/5
- Price band: 3/4
Peruvian food is the new black, and nobody wears it better than Ricardo Zarate, who serves a sophisticated interpretation.
- West Los Angeles
Wolfgang Puck at Hotel Bel-Air
- Rated as: 4/5
- Critics choice
The restaurant at the Bel-Air is once again, finally, the most glamorous restaurant in town.
- Bel Air
Susan Feniger's STREET
- Rated as: 3/5
Megastar chef Susan Feniger brings the whole world together one plate at a time.
- Mid-City West
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