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Feature · LAGranada is a coffee shop that is also somebody's home
A house in Angelino Heights that serves coffee from its living room and garden.
Eat · LALos Angeles is better when serious chefs choose to move here
Sean Brock's Darling, Sushi Nakazawa on Robertson and Atlanta's Rumi's Kitchen show what a city built by arrivals gains, and where the claim stops.
Lists · LA15 new Los Angeles restaurants, from a Silver Lake nave to a Chinatown corner
From Aitor Zabala's three-star counter on Nemo Street to Fátima Juárez's masa stall in Mercado La Paloma, by way of a former Pok Pok, a church nave and a Sean Brock listening lounge.
Lists · LALos Angeles's new bars include a ship, a classroom and a pizza bar
From Josh Skenes's pizza and cocktail bar in the Arts District to the bar Christopher Isherwood put into A Single Man, by way of a margarita bar with a centrifuge.
Rumi's Kitchen · Century City · September 23, 2026Rumi's Kitchen brings Atlanta's Persian cooking to Tehrangeles
Chef Ali Mesghali, who first cooked in LA, opens at Westfield Century City with charcoal kabobs, duck fesenjoon and a rooftop pomegranate garden.
Sous Sous · Silver Lake · September 2026At Sous Sous, the stained-glass apostles watch you order a Sazerac
In the 1931 nave of Hotel Lucile, Patrick Costa pairs Marseille with New Orleans, from blackened-polenta trout to a green tomato margarita.
ANIMAL · Arts District · July 2026ANIMAL brings a Brooklyn queer bar to the Arts District, with an Airstream and a disco banana
In the old Resident beer garden, a frozen watermelon margarita, free house and disco, and a forest patio that is the point.
Palomino · Highland Park · July 2026Palomino gives Gold Line's overflow a disco ball and a seat
The Highland Park team behind the Stones Throw hi-fi bar open a moodier, easier sibling across Figueroa.
CineOpera · Arts District · July 2026CineOpera Puts a Maradona Sandwich and a 170-Inch Screen on an Arts District Roof
Muy Salsa's rooftop wine bar pairs Italian aperitivo with Latin cooking and a film every time the sun goes down.
Mish · La Brea · June 2026On La Brea, Mish carves its pastrami by hand and lets the records play to the end
Eric Greenspan's new-school deli sits under hangar-high beams south of Hancock Park, with honey-water bagels, a serious fish platter and a vinyl lounge upstairs.
First Look · LAAt San Damián, Enrique Olvera makes al pastor with kanpachi
The Pujol chef's mariscos restaurant takes the old Atla site on Abbot Kinney, with an uni-topped rockfish ceviche and a Sunday dinner that starts at three.
Bad Roman · Beverly Hills · May 26, 2026Bad Roman puts a neon-collared boar at the door on Canon Drive
Quality Branded's maximalist Italian-American party moves into The Palm's old room, with a flambéed lobster, a raviolo on the steak and a tiramisu ice cream cake.
Bar di Bello · Silver Lake · March 2026Bar di Bello: a Milanese party room behind velvet curtains on Sunset Boulevard
Alex Wilmot and partners bring Bar Basso-style Negronis, red travertine and Italo disco to a Silver Lake strip mall.
Lielle · Pico-Robertson · February 2026Lielle hides a Michelin-starred cellar under a kosher-bakery stretch of Pico
Marcus Jernmark cooks four courses in a cork-vaulted, windowless room, and turns yesterday's bread into tomorrow's miso.
Baldi · Beverly Hills · February 2026Baldi is a Tuscan steakhouse at the Waldorf, and the corn tortellini nearly steals the night
Edo Baldi grills Prime and Japanese beef over olive wood where Wilshire meets Santa Monica Boulevard, with a family name that counts for plenty.
Sid's Bar · South Pasadena · December 2025Sid's Bar pours a whiskey named for a Depression-era muralist
The indie promoters behind Sid the Cat have turned a classroom in South Pasadena's old El Centro school into a neighbourhood bar beside their new concert hall.
Vandell · Los Feliz · December 2025Vandell pours a Negroni with 1970s Campari and a Manhattan with 1960s bourbon, on Hillhurst
Two Republique alumni and the Bar Flores group open a walk-in-friendly Los Feliz cocktail bar with a red back room and a bar burger.
Maydan Market · West Adams · 2025Maydan Market is a covered town square where one fire feeds tlayudas, kebabs and Thai grills
Rose Previte's West Adams market hall puts seven kitchens around a single hearth, a short walk from the E Line, and rewards anyone who wanders.
Super Peach · Century City · October 2025Super Peach brings Momofuku to the mall with a wagyu kimbap and a martini that comes two ways
David Chang's group fills a corner of Westfield Century City with green tile, orange steel and a flap board, and the kimbap is why to go.
Darling · West Hollywood · August 31, 2025Darling is Sean Brock's wood-fire kitchen with a DJ booth and a burger on a strict allowance
Appalachian cooking meets California produce on North Robertson, next to a listening bar with Tannoy speakers and a wall of 45s.
Daisy Margarita Bar · Sherman Oaks · May 2025Daisy is a margarita bar named after its own drink, with a guacamole slushie and a fringed jukebox
Sherman Oaks gets a Norteño cantina from the Mírate team: clarified Clamato, additive-free tequila and a bar lined with glass jugs.
Firstborn · Chinatown · March 28, 2025Firstborn puts mapo tofu inside a steak tartare and a brasserie inside Chinatown
Anthony Wang, never once employed in a Chinese kitchen, cooks the food of his family with French technique in the old Pok Pok corner of Mandarin Plaza.
Alba · West Hollywood · February 6, 2025Alba parks a yellow car on Melrose and sells the first night of a holiday
Adam Leonti's 'vacation Italian' turns a former car park at Melrose and La Cienega into a pink-walled garden, with a chicken dish worth the late table.
Zaytinya · Culver City · December 17, 2024José Andrés brings Zaytinya's halloumi and hearth to a hotel beside the Culver City train
The first West Coast Zaytinya cooks mezze over wood fire at The Shay, with a blue Mediterranean mural, a big patio and a kebab platter for four.