Since opening in 2020, Inglewood’s SoFi Stadium has kept a busy calendar. Over the last few years, Beyoncé and Taylor Swift have graced the stadium’s stage, while local teams, the Los Angeles Rams and the Los Angeles Chargers, are gunning for a spot at the Super Bowl. The region’s largest venue, which can seat from 70,000 to 100,000, will […]

Neighbors & Friends, a popular cafe in Old Town Pasadena for pastries, coffee, sandwiches, curated cheese boxes, retail, and home grocery goods, expanded to South Pasadena in May with a new location called Neighbors & Friends Kitchen. Founder and South Pasadena resident Kaiy Smith-Biesman opened the new outpost in the former Communal Food and Drink […]

Yama Sushi Marketplate proves that restaurant-quality sushi doesn’t have to come with a staggering price tag. The casual Japanese marketplace — which operates locations in Koreatown, West Los Angeles, and San Gabriel — fills its shelves with fresh ahi-topped nigiri, spicy tuna tightly rolled with nori and rice, and stuffed-to-the-brim California rolls that taste as […]

The editors at Eater Los Angeles dine out several times a week, if not per day, which means we’re always encountering standout dishes that deserve time in the limelight. Here’s the very best of everything the team has eaten this week. Hand rolls and fatty tuna toast from Ine in Highland Park I almost don’t […]

When Kerline Ordeus launched her cooking class series Haitian Knockout Kitchen in October 2025, she didn’t know it would become one of the most sought-after seats in Los Angeles. The Haitian-born Ordeus moved to Los Angeles from the Midwest in 2020 and found herself yearning for flavors from home, only to find a sparse selection […]

Every Friday, our editors compile a trusty list of recommendations to answer the most pressing of questions: “Where should I eat?“ Here are four places to check out this weekend in Los Angeles. And if you need some ideas on where to drink, here’s our list of the hottest places to get cocktails in town. For a sushi […]

After paying his dues on the line at Atla, Ceviche Project, and a nine-month run as a chef of food truck La Hija del Marondo, chef Saúl Pérez García will finally open his own Hermosillo-style street cart in Silver Lake. Tacos Royale opens Friday, June 5, as a street stand in a parking lot on […]

Chef Enrique Olvera’s hospitality group, Casamata, will head to the Westside again with a new seafood-focused sister restaurant to its Arts District modern Mexican destination, Damián. San Damián opens on Thursday, June 4, in the former Venice Atla space (a short-lived Olvera outpost of his New York restaurant of the same name). It brings a […]

After more than a decade with the José Andrés Group — first joining Minibar’s opening team in Washington D.C, and later as the Bazaar’s chef de cuisine and the group’s corporate research and development chef — Joshua Whigham set out on his own in 2025 to open Los Feliz’s charming Casa Leo. Tucked under Messhall […]

For fine-dining restaurants in Los Angeles, the opening process often looks like this: an up-and-coming chef branches out from the restaurant where they cut their teeth to offer their own more personal tasting menu. It’s a bold gamble with high stakes, especially when charging from $195 to $700 per person. That was the case with […]

Though City of West Hollywood remains known for its glamorous celebrity hot spots, far more lies beneath the surface. This is one of Southern California’s best neighborhoods to find an impressive range of restaurants at many price points, including one of the hottest (and most expensive) tasting menus in town, casual and refined seafood destinations, […]

Although I’m from the San Gabriel Valley and love living here, I used to begrudge it due to its lackluster Thai food. Thankfully, times have changed — and the addition of Kwan Kitchen two years ago is partially responsible. This casual strip mall joint from a brother-and-sister team is lit with bamboo lanterns and adorned […]

In 1967, the Black Cat was the site of a demonstration against police brutality targeting gay patrons that predated the historic Stonewall riots by two years. Los Angeles’s local queer community has continued to flourish in the years since. From Santa Monica to East Los Angeles and down to Long Beach, queer bars are just […]

The editors at Eater Los Angeles dine out several times a week, if not per day, which means we’re always encountering standout dishes that deserve time in the limelight. Here’s the very best of everything the team has eaten this week. Panqueques from Broken Spanish Comedor in Culver City I’m not a consistent bruncher but, […]

Los Angeles is no stranger to restaurant openings, whether debuts in iconic buildings helmed by big-name chefs, humble neighborhood haunts, or pop-ups leaping into permanent spaces. The city’s dining scene continues to grow even as operators face stunning challenges related to ongoing impacts from the 2020 coronavirus pandemic, the 2023 Hollywood labor strikes, the 2025 Palisades and […]

After Fat + Flour closed its Grand Central Market location following a seven-year run, a new question emerged: who would replace the prominent stall inside the popular Downtown bazaar? That newcomer is Cinnies, the barely year-old cinnamon roll pop-up that has made its way through farmers’ markets in and around Southern California, partnered for collaborations […]

An Indonesian restaurant called Padi quietly opened on Sunset Boulevard and has quickly become a favorite among Indonesians living in Los Angeles. Unlike most of the mom-and-pop Indonesian restaurants around the area, Padi feels built by and for the younger generation: During the day, it runs as a cafe with coffee and matcha served alongside […]

Every Friday, our editors compile a trusty list of recommendations to answer the most pressing of questions: “Where should I eat?“ Here are four places to check out this weekend in Los Angeles. And if you need some ideas on where to drink, here’s our list of the hottest places to get cocktails in town. For strawberry season […]

Alta Adams is back. Chef and owner Keith Corbin closed his celebrated restaurant on February 26, 2026, only to reopen on May 27 with a reimagined Alta menu that represents his evolution as a chef. Alta is no longer solely Corbin’s brand of California soul, which incorporated his Southern and Los Angeles roots with West Coast […]

New York’s irreverent, maximalist Italian destination, Bad Roman, just made its Los Angeles debut with a new outpost in Beverly Hills. Quality Branded Hospitality, the group behind Don Angie, San Sabino, Limusina, and Quality Italian, opened the restaurant in the former Palm Steakhouse space on May 26. Bad Roman made its New York debut in […]

Every big city has its popular road trip destinations, and Los Angeles remains blessed to have Santa Barbara, an hour and 40 minutes driving distance from Downtown and just under three hours by Amtrak. Though both routes offer stunning views on the way, Santa Barbara’s landscape is even more breathtaking: The Pacific Ocean is never far from […]

For almost a decade, Honey Hi has embodied a particular wave of Los Angeles eating — and has commanded a cult following for it. The daytime-only Echo Park cafe built itself on the bricks of colorful macronutrient-dense, greens-loaded bowls using local produce and an entirely gluten-free menu that still has plenty of sandwiches. At times, […]

Seedy, a pop-up built on Mexican American comfort cooking, finally has a permanent home in Lincoln Heights. Partners in business and life Raquel Rodriguez and Nikko Cruz opened the restaurant in a pint-sized space along North Broadway in April with a menu that draws on the memories of what they grew up eating in Southern […]

When I was a kid, I thought nothing seemed cooler than being a regular at a restaurant, except the way Ken Griffey Jr. swung a baseball bat. When I realized I was never going to casually mash 400-foot home runs with a backwards hat on (despite my best efforts that continue to this day), I resolved […]

When restaurants claim to have the world’s best blank — pancakes, coffee, cookies — it almost always suggests hyperbole. The one instance where this would ring true to me is at Taco Nazo, the Los Angeles microchain that purports to sell the world’s best fish taco. In this case, I can believe them — the […]

The mother-daughter team behind Little Tokyo’s popular Jamaican restaurant, A Beautiful Life, opened a new destination for Jamaican-Chinese cooking in Hollywood on April 22. At ABL Hollywood, Aja Dawson and her mother, Barbara, explore their family’s heritage in dishes such as jerk fried egg rolls and chen pi ji–style chicken wings in an intimate 35-seat space […]

Every Friday, our editors compile a trusty list of recommendations to answer the most pressing of questions: “Where should I eat?“ Here are four places to check out this weekend in Los Angeles. And if you need some ideas on where to drink, here’s our list of the hottest places to get cocktails in town. For a view […]

Some restaurant locations seem damned to eternal turnover. The stretch of Echo Park Avenue just north of Sunset Boulevard has proven to be one of these haunted destinations — new independent restaurants have struggled to take root despite appearing ripe for success, including Red Hill, Allston Yacht Club, Alumette, and the Whisperer, as well as […]

Just in time for the long holiday weekend comes Brick Lane, the first independent restaurant by chef Sanjay Rawat, formerly of Kahani at the Ritz-Carlton Laguna Niguel in Dana Point, a landmark wedding destination in the South Asian diasporic community. Rawat’s modern Indian restaurant debuts in the Arts District on Friday, May 22, as Southern […]

Natsumi Saeki was 7 years old when her parents, Midori and Shojiro, took over an Indian restaurant called Silver Spoons and opened Japanese American Ducks in 1995. The restaurant began with a small menu of Japanese homestyle dishes such as warm bowls of fried pork cutlet and curry, broiled unagi served over rice, and soba […]