101 Best Restaurants in L.A. (2025)

Los Angeles Times · 2025 · 101 restaurants. Read the original list.

Restaurants on this list

• Al Baraka Restaurant — Little Arabia, Anaheim
• Alta Adams — West Adams, Los Angeles
• ALTO Fire to Table — Studio City, Los Angeles
• Ammatolí — Downtown Long Beach, Long Beach
• Anajak Thai Cuisine — Sherman Oaks
• Antico Nuovo — Larchmont, Los Angeles
• Azizam — Silver Lake, Los Angeles
• Baby Bistro — Victor Heights, Los Angeles
• Backbone — Montrose, Glendale, CA
• Bar Amá — Downtown, Los Angeles
• Bar Etoile — Melrose Hill, Los Angeles
• Barbacoa Ramirez — Arleta, Los Angeles
• Baroo — Arts District, Los Angeles
• Barsha — Hermosa Beach
• Bavel — Arts District, Los Angeles
• Biriyani Kabob House — Koreatown, Los Angeles
• Bistro Na's — Temple City
• Borit Gogae — Koreatown, Los Angeles
• Bridgetown Roti — East Hollywood, Los Angeles
• Budonoki — Virgil Village, Los Angeles
• Cafe 2001 — Arts District, Los Angeles
• Camélia — Arts District, Los Angeles
• Casa Gish Bac — Pico-Union, Los Angeles
• Chi Spacca — Hancock Park, Los Angeles
• Cosetta — Ocean Park, Santa Monica
• Damian — Arts District, Los Angeles
• Darkroom — Santa Ana
• Delmy's Pupusas — Los Angeles
• Destroyer — Hayden Tract, Culver City
• Dolan's Uyghur Cuisine — Alhambra
• Dulan's on Crenshaw — Crenshaw, Los Angeles
• Dunsmoor — Glassell Park, Los Angeles
• El Bacano — North Hollywood, Los Angeles
• Evil Cooks — El Sereno, Los Angeles
• Fat + Flour — Culver City
• Found Oyster — East Hollywood, Los Angeles
• Funke — Beverly Hills
• Hakata Izakaya HERO — West Los Angeles, Los Angeles
• Hayato — Downtown, Los Angeles
• Henry's Cuisine — Downtown Alhambra, Alhambra
• Heritage Barbecue — San Juan Capistrano
• Kang Kang Food Court — Alhambra
• Kato — Downtown (ROW DTLA), Los Angeles
• Kismet — Los Feliz, Los Angeles
• Knife Pleat — South Coast Plaza, Costa Mesa
• Kuya Lord — Melrose Hill, Los Angeles
• Lalibela — Little Ethiopia, Los Angeles
• Las Segovias — Huntington Park
• Lorenzo California — Golden Triangle, Beverly Hills
• Los Sabrosos Al Horno — Cudahy
• Lum Ka Naad — Northridge, Los Angeles
• M Joy — San Gabriel
• Macheen — Boyle Heights, Los Angeles
• Mae Malai Thai House of Noodles — Thai Town, Los Angeles
• Majordōmo — Chinatown, Los Angeles
• Mario's Butcher Shop — Newport Beach
• Mélisse — Midtown Santa Monica, Santa Monica
• Mercado La Paloma — Historic South-Central, Los Angeles
• Mini Kabob — Downtown Glendale, Glendale, CA
• Moo's Craft Barbecue — Lincoln Heights, Los Angeles
• Morihiro — Atwater Village, Los Angeles
• n/naka — Palms, Los Angeles
• Orsa & Winston — Downtown, Los Angeles
• Osteria Mozza — Hancock Park, Los Angeles
• Panda Inn — East Pasadena, Pasadena
• Pasjoli — Ocean Park, Santa Monica
• Perilla LA — Chinatown, Los Angeles
• Perle — Old Pasadena, Pasadena
• Petit Trois — Hollywood, Los Angeles
• Phởholic — Little Saigon, Westminster, CA
• Pine & Crane DTLA — South Park, Los Angeles
• Pizzeria Bianco — Downtown, Los Angeles
• Pizzeria Sei — Pico-Robertson, Los Angeles
• Providence — Hollywood, Los Angeles
• Quarter Sheets — Echo Park, Los Angeles
• R+D Kitchen — Montana Avenue, Santa Monica
• République — Hancock Park, Los Angeles
• Restaurant Ki — Little Tokyo, Los Angeles
• Rustic Canyon — Downtown Santa Monica, Santa Monica
• RVR — Venice, Los Angeles
• Saffy's — East Hollywood, Los Angeles
• Seline — Ocean Park, Santa Monica
• Si! Mon — Venice
• Sincerely Syria — Hollywood, Los Angeles
• Somerville — View Park-Windsor Hills, Los Angeles
• Somni — West Hollywood
• Sonoratown — Downtown, Los Angeles
• Soowon Galbi — Koreatown, Los Angeles
• SORA Craft Kitchen — Downtown, Los Angeles
• Stir Crazy — Melrose, Los Angeles
• Surawon Tofu House — Koreatown, Los Angeles
• Sushi I-naba — Torrance
• Sushi Kaneyoshi — Little Tokyo, Los Angeles
• Tacos Los Cholos — Huntington Park
• Tomat — Westchester, Los Angeles
• Tsubaki — Echo Park, Los Angeles
• Tun Lahmajo — Burbank
• Two Hommés — Inglewood
• Vespertine — Hayden Tract, Culver City
• Vin Folk — Downtown, Hermosa Beach
• Yang's Kitchen — Alhambra

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