Longtime Downtown Santa Monica bar and restaurant the Misfit will close on Saturday, April 18, after 15 years in the neighborhood. LGO Hospitality, the group behind the Misfit, confirmed the closure in a statement to Eater, writing that they decided not to extend the lease at the current location. LGO is currently searching for a new home for […]

One of the most seemingly simplest drinks, bartenders have been trying to perfect the martini since the beginning of time (or at least since the 1800s when the cocktail was allegedly invented). The cocktail has a storied history, from its turn as a favorite of Winston Churchill to its starring role in the James Bond […]

Two popular breweries — Monkish Brewing Co. and Everywhere Beer — are expanding their presence in Southern California with new Los Angeles taprooms. Torrance-based Monkish’s outpost along Sunset Boulevard in Echo Park is now open, while a new location for Everywhere will debut in the former Fred Harvey space at Union Station this summer. Sour […]

After more than a year of anticipation, Los Angeles’s most successful higher-end Indian restaurant, Badmaash, opened in late March at a prime Abbot Kinney location that had been vacant for years (it was most recently Yours Truly and Piccolo). Contrasted with Santa Monica’s more upscale Fitoor, Badmaash definitely feels more Venetian (Venice-level cool, that is), though both add something…

The American obsession with steakhouses dates back to before the Gilded Age with the New York debuts of Delmonico’s in 1837 and the Old Homestead Steakhouse in 1868. A novelty at the time, the new restaurant genre was born as an American response to British chophouses and beefsteak buffets. More than a century later, in the […]

Los Angeles does Old Hollywood well, but it rarely does it cheaply. Taylor’s Steak House in Koreatown is a notable exception: a red-vinyl-booth time capsule where you can cosplay midcentury glamor without spending triple digits or feeling weird about showing up in sneakers. (There is, technically, a dress code — an ominous little sign near […]

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. Chicken burger and tenders from Mixtape at Neighborly (multiple locations) Mixtape, a vendor inside […]

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 nostalgic […]

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. Fish tacos from Playita Mariscos in Silver Lake A lack of traffic in Los […]

In 2023, Linden landed on Sunset Boulevard in the middle of Hollywood. The operators were mostly unknowns in the Los Angeles food scene, but they quickly established a bustling restaurant that captures the spirit of Caribbean diasporic communities in New York on Sunset Boulevard and Tamarind Avenue. Linden’s sleekly modern dining room, thoughtful cocktails, and […]

There is magic in a sidewalk taco stand — ephemerality, serendipity, synergy — that can be hard to replicate in a brick-and-mortar restaurant. Going stationary can sometimes seem like going from the early days of a relationship to moving in together: trading thrill for dependability, a late night meet-up after the bar for an early […]

There’s an expression (I believe it was originally derived from this clever 2018 tweet) that Los Angeles is “shitty heaven” and New York is “fun hell.” As someone who’s lived in both cities for significant periods of time, I strongly agree with this neo-Dickensian comparison. But if there’s anything that can be both shitty heaven and fun hell, […]

From a cameo on Mad Men to a roster of legendary celebrity clientele, including Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, HMS Bounty has become a legend in its own right. It’s not just the decades of stories that make this nautical-themed Koreatown bar great. Some type of bar has stood on the ground-level space of the […]

Those familiar with Palm Springs culture know that poolside hangouts and outdoor explorations are essential daytime activities. At any hour, the region is known for cocktailing. Whether at brunch or a dark cocktail lounge, Palm Springs has plenty of spots serving inventive or classic cocktails surrounded by desert views. If stationed at the right place […]

The team behind Lake Tahoe’s Smoke Door opens its newest and first Los Angeles restaurant on Friday, April 17. Bengara debuts in the Arts District’s former Taberu space, with a menu centered on Japan’s binchotan charcoal, but genshiyaki-style with meats cooked slowly over low heat. Smoke Door chef and owner Tyler Burges and lead chef […]

Grammy Award–winning musician Ben Lovett and his hospitality group, Tvg, just opened a sleek new cocktail and sushi destination in Chinatown. Mitsi — set right next door to Lovett’s new venue, Pacific Electric — serves a menu of sashimi, sushi, and temaki alongside twists on classic cocktails such as a 50/50 martini with tomato, as […]

Chef Curtis Stone’s decade-old restaurant, Gwen, has aged as well as its famous steaks. Set in an Art Deco room that radiates Hollywood glamor, the Michelin-starred restaurant fits the bill for special occasion dining that’s far more chill than a multi-course tasting menu. Still, personalized touches — like choosing one’s steak knife from a velvet-lined […]

For the owners of La Copine, the lines and loops underneath the restaurant’s logo facing Old Woman Springs Road — a whimsical flourish by artist Kris Chau — mean “A Happy Place in the Universe.” This earnest spirit permeates the decade-old Yucca Valley restaurant founded by partners Claire Wadsworth and Nikki Hill. The two left […]

As one of Los Angeles’s oldest steakhouses, Colombo’s Italian Steakhouse and Jazz Club stays busy with regulars from across the Southland who reserve a table for cuts of steak, prime rib, chicken, seafood, and pastas served on white tablecloths in burgundy leather booths, surrounded by retro chandeliers and painted artwork from the 1950s and beyond. […]

Tyler Wells, the restaurateur behind live-fire restaurant Betsy in Altadena (named one of Eater’s Best New Restaurants in 2025), will open cafe-slash-wine-bar Bar Betsy on Monday, April 13. Located off Lake Avenue in Altadena, one door down from Betsy, the all-day Bar Betsy serves coffee, pastries, and snacks from morning until mid-afternoon before flipping into […]

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 weekend pastries: […]

Amid Los Angeles’s ever-expanding landscape of corn tortilla–clad tacos, Sonoratown roots itself in the flour-based traditions of the Northern Mexico town of San Luis Río Colorado, Sonora. The pliant, lard-laden flour tortillas remain the heart of Teodoro Diaz-Rodriguez, Jr. and Jennifer Feltham’s restaurant, which has expanded to three locations since opening in 2016 in Downtown […]

In the late 2010s, the City of West Hollywood positioned itself as California’s budding destination for cannabis consumption lounges. A cohort of fully licensed and legal restaurants, cafes, and consumption lounges cropped up, including the Original Cannabis Cafe and the Woods, and became in-demand destinations where patrons could smoke, vape, dab, drink, or eat edibles […]

When Andy Wysocki and Bill Sanderson opened Townie Bagels, they had one goal in mind: to bring great East Coast–style bagels to Palm Springs. As first-time cafe owners and fairly new to the bagel craft (lead baker Wysocki tested variations from his home kitchen before opening the shop in 2015), Townie Bagels has proved that […]

Los Angeles’s restaurants continue to face difficult headwinds, starting in 2020 with the onset of a global pandemic and exacerbating with the Hollywood labor strikes in 2023, which led to an industry-wide slowdown that’s continued into 2026. From the lingering effects of the Hollywood strikes to rising costs (labor, rent, ingredients, etc.), many factors continue to […]

When the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) reopens this spring after its multi-year renovation, it will feature an unexpected new installation: an Erewhon. On April 14, LACMA and Erewhon announced that an outpost of the high-end grocer will open on April 19 for museum members attending previews of the new David Geffen galleries, […]

The team behind Santa Monica fine dining destination Muse will open a new restaurant in West Hollywood in summer 2027 in the former Olivetta space on Melrose Avenue. The new project, which will be a new restaurant rather than a second location of Muse, will see chef-owner Fardad Khayami’s brother, Nikdad, at the helm of a pastry […]

Pasta pomodoro seems like a simple thing. It’s a dish I’ve made at home and ordered in Italian restaurants countless times with varying results: The cherry tomatoes that pop pleasingly in a salad might suffocate in a sauce; the canned Italian San Marzanos that cost several dollars more than their domestic counterpart might lose their […]

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 spring […]

Top Chef winner and Los Angeles chef Mei Lin announced on Instagram that she has left her two Los Angeles restaurants, Daybird and 88 Club. Daybird opened in Silver Lake in 2021 amid the pandemic fried chicken boom and immediately became a bona fide Los Angeles chicken destination for its massive, sometimes caviar-topped, Schezwan-spiced fried […]