Top Restaurants: Los Angeles
Tacos, kaiseki, and Wolfgang Puck. 10 places, mapped and ready to build a trip around.
Plan a trip on Trailwind →Howlin' Ray's
Los Angeles, CAClimate46–90°FLA's Nashville-hot-chicken obsession: hour-plus lines in Chinatown for the "howlin'" heat.
Providence
Los Angeles, CA2★ MichelinClimate45–88°FMichael Cimarusti's two-Michelin-star seafood tasting menu: the best fine dining in LA.
n/naka
Los Angeles, CA2★ MichelinClimate46–79°FNiki Nakayama's intimate modern kaiseki: a two-Michelin-star seasonal Japanese journey.
Bestia
Los Angeles, CAClimate46–90°FThe Arts District blockbuster: house charcuterie, blistered pizzas, and bone-marrow pasta.
Republique
Los Angeles, CAClimate45–88°FGrand French bistro and bakery in a historic Chaplin-era building on La Brea.
Guelaguetza
Los Angeles, CAJames BeardClimate45–88°FJames Beard-honored Oaxacan cooking: moles, tlayudas, and mezcal in Koreatown.
Langer's Delicatessen
Los Angeles, CAEst. 1947IconicClimate46–90°FSince 1947. The #19 hot pastrami is, to many, the best pastrami sandwich anywhere.
Gjelina
Los Angeles, CAClimate46–79°FVenice's see-and-be-seen canteen: wood-fired vegetables and pizzas on Abbot Kinney.
Spago
Los Angeles, CAClimate45–88°FWolfgang Puck's Beverly Hills flagship that reinvented California fine dining.
Musso & Frank Grill
Hollywood, CAEst. 1919IconicHollywood's oldest restaurant, open on the Boulevard since 1919, red leather booths and martinis mixed the same way they were for Chaplin and Faulkner. Order the flannel cakes or a steak off the flattop.