Bar di Bello, a new Milan-inspired bar and restaurant, has landed at Silver Lake’s Sunset Row development. The sleek new restaurant comes from a partnership between industry veterans Alex Wilmot (Gigi’s), Michael Kassar (Wexler’s Deli), Kristin Olszewski (Nomadic Wines), and Mike Moonves. Bar di Bello is the latest addition to the Neman brothers’ development, which […]
Noma will bring Noma Projects, the retail arm of the restaurant that specializes in fermentation-based pantry products, to Los Angeles at a pop-up store opening on Thursday, April 9 at Sunset Row in Silver Lake. This will be the first U.S. location for the shop; Noma also operates a Noma Projects store in Copenhagen. Set […]
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. Suadero tacos from Komal in Historic South Central In a landscape filled with incredible […]
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 Japanese […]
In the former Jean-Georges at the Waldorf Astoria in Beverly Hills, find sumptuous Italian steakhouse Baldi, which opened in February 2026 with soaring ceilings and a sprawling midcentury modern dining room. The restaurant comes from scion Edoardo “Edo” Baldi, son of the celebrity-favorite restaurateur Giorgio Baldi, who also operates Hollywood elite magnet e.baldi. Here, the scent of olive wood…
The James Beard Foundation Awards announced the line-up of 2026 finalists for the restaurant and chef awards categories on Wednesday, January 21. The list of nominees was trimmed down from a long list of semi finalists, which was announced in January. Winners will be announced at the James Beard Award ceremony on June 15 in […]
Twenty-five years in and the energy inside chef Gino Angelini’s Italian stalwart Angelini Osteria still pulses like that of a hot new restaurant. The restaurant’s designer-clad crowd — a mix of date-night couples and boisterous mixed company — files in early and stays late. Everyone’s sips bubbles to start before sharing bottles of reds; the […]
On March 25, 2026, Michelin announced six Los Angeles restaurants, as well as one Montecito, California contender, as new additions to its California Michelin Guide. The spring guide update typically precedes a larger Michelin star-awarding ceremony in June, although the tire company has not yet announced dates for its 2026 ceremony. New Southern California additions […]
Burritos La Palma opened its first U.S.-based location in El Monte in 2012, but the Bañuelos Lugo family that operates the burrito empire has been in the taqueria game since the ‘80s in Zacatecas, Mexico. Their experience shows in the food: The simplicity of the Zacatecan-style burrito belies its high-quality ingredients — especially when it […]
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 lively […]
Find chef Phillip Frankland Lee’s Michelin-starred Pasta Bar (stylized as Pasta|Bar) hidden on the second floor of a sprawling Encino megaplex anchored by a California Pizza Kitchen and a Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf. Diners are whisked into a moody bar and treated to savory canapes and an elaborate cocktail made using a Japanese cold […]
Jyan Isaac Bread just expanded operations to serve weekend brunch and weekday lunch menus at its Santa Monica outpost on Ocean Park Boulevard. The results? Tremendous. This may be the best new brunch on the Westside, which means something because Westsiders still consider brunching a serious pastime, not a relic of the 2010s. On weekends, […]
It’s incredible to see how the Los Angeles pizza scene has grown and flourished over the decades, starting in the ’80s with Wolfgang Puck’s smoked salmon creation at Spago and the birth of mega-chain California Pizza Kitchen. In recent years, Nancy Silverton’s Pizzeria Mozza ushered in a new wave of wood-fired pizza-making throughout the Southland […]
When El Moro opened in January 2026, long queues for its shatteringly crisp, cinnamon-sifted churros immediately formed in Echo Park. After all, this is the first Los Angeles location for the legendary churro maker, having become firmly entrenched in Mexico City culture almost 100 years ago. While this is the second Southern California location (the […]
As new restaurants continue to bloom in Los Angeles, longtime staples for the city’s diasporic Jewish community are presenting dine-in and to-go Passover menus that fit the needs of family seder gatherings of any size. The holiday, which commemorates the Israelite exodus from ancient Egypt, spans over a week, starting this year at sundown on […]
The quintessential Southern California brewery experience involves a long drive to a nondescript industrial park, followed by an extended hunt to figure out precisely which roll-up warehouse door will reveal the cavernous taproom you’re looking for. This is how you visit Monkish, Green Cheek, Alesmith, and so many others. But to find the best beer […]
Tev’s & Family Kitchen, a virally popular Vermont Square Jamaican soul food restaurant, just expanded with a second location in Gardena. Located on a stretch of South Figueroa Street off the 110, Tev’s second location will be open Tuesday to Sunday serving its famous macaroni and cheese and jerk salmon. Owner Tevin Love opened the […]
Echo Park residents are about to get a dose of déjà vu as the Holloway, a sports bar that closed in 2021, reopens in its former Echo Park Avenue home on Thursday, March 26; the building last housed the Lonely Oyster until its quiet closure at the end of 2025. Don Andes and Jena Corbin, […]
The San Gabriel Valley, colloquially known as the 626, has long been Southern California’s undisputed boba capital. Many shopping plazas host four or five tea shops in a single complex; trendy new boba haunts still open every few weeks, often drawing two-hour lines out the door. Specialty coffee, in this region, has historically taken a […]
The editors at Eater LA 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. Dating Tahini shake from Meymuni Cafe in West Los Angeles Newish Persian cafe Meymuni (“party” […]
Acclaimed Thai Japanese kaiseki restaurant Kinkan will end its five-year run in Virgil Village at the end of this month. After the closure, chef Nan Yimcharoen will take her restaurant on the road with pop-ups in Kyoto in April and May while working on the next iteration of Kinkan, which is set to open at West […]
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 bo […]
Los Angeles may not boast a highly concentrated Irish population like the East Coast or San Francisco, but don’t be discouraged when looking for an stellar Irish pub. Southern California’s options are still a vibrant part of the region with taverns that host live music, serve traditional pints, and cook up pub fare with modern […]
Nearly 200,000 members of the Iranian diaspora call Los Angeles home, earning parts of the city the moniker Tehrangeles as a nod to Iran’s capital. While many young Iranians from prosperous families established roots in the U.S. following their college studies in the 1940s, the largest wave of Iranians immigrated in 1979, seeking asylum after […]
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. Panang Bolognese from Kinkan in Virgil Village Thai-Japanese kaiseki restaurant Kinkan just wrapped a […]
Prime Pizza opened in 2014 on Fairfax and now — more than a decade later — has 10 locations spread across Los Angeles and Orange County, with six more impending openings that will reach the Inland Empire. It’s not hard to understand the rapid growth of this Southern California pizza empire; the pies at Prime […]
Noma chef René Redzepi just announced he will step away from his role at the restaurant. The move comes after the New York Times published a report detailing emotional and physical abuse allegations from dozens of former Noma employees against Redzepi and the restaurant. “After more than two decades of building and leading this restaurant, […]
Sports writers called the 2025 World Series one of the best in Major League Baseball history. Seven games of the Los Angeles Dodgers against the Toronto Blue Jays were full-on nail-biters: one with 18 innings; a near collision between Kiké Hernández and Andy Pages that could have sealed the Canadian team as the winner; pitcher […]
Jeremy Fox’s beloved Santa Monica restaurant, Birdie G’s, will come back to life at the Fairmont Century Plaza hotel in Century City. The Midwestern and Jewish–inspired restaurant, which closed at the end of 2025, is set to reopen at the hotel in summer 2026. Lumière, the Fairmont’s current restaurant, will close at the end of […]
It matters little what other cities and their “superior” tap water have to say (a long-debunked myth, by the way). Los Angeles is a serious pizza town. Take its recent obsession with sfincione, the square-shaped, Sicilian-style pizzas brought to America in the mid-20th century, primarily through New York, as proof. Those thick crusts — spongy and pliable, […]