Openings
The newest hotels, restaurants and bars in London and Los Angeles, month by month.
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Spacca Tutto · Pacific Palisades · 15 October 2026Nancy Silverton opens a steakhouse in the Palisades, and the focaccia comes stuffed with cheese
Spacca Tutto, her first Westside restaurant, opened in Palisades Village on 15 October with Dal Rae-style picanha, a central bar and a patio on the green.
Rumi's Kitchen · Century City · 23 September 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.
Friendship Bar · Santa Monica Canyon · August 2026Friendship Bar is back in the ship-shaped building where Isherwood drank, with soul on Thursdays
Golden Bull bartender Daniel Baker revives Santa Monica Canyon's S.S. Friendship with lantern-lit booths, martinis and a new stage.
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.
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.
Bad Roman · Beverly Hills · 26 May 2026Bad Roman puts a neon-collared boar, a cork ceiling and a limoncello with Diet Coke 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.
Brick Lane · Arts District · 22 May 2026Brick Lane serves a biryani under a naan lid in an Arts District warehouse that used to be Italian
Sanjay Rawat, formerly of Kahani, cooks in a wood-fired tandoor on Sixth Street, with a bar built around jaggery, chyawanprash and cardamom.
Sushi Nakazawa · Beverly Hills · 13 May 2026The sushi counter that began with a Facebook message and Google Translate lands on Robertson
Daisuke Nakazawa, Jiro's apprentice, brings Edomae nigiri, bouncy tamago and a charcoal grill to a sea-cave of a room on the Beverly Hills border.
Jacaranda · Hancock Park · 6 May 2026Jacaranda is a ten-course dinner party in a lilac glass box, hosted by a chef and a former music editor
Daniel Patterson, of Coi, and Sarah Lewitinn, move their Hancock Park supper club to Melrose with soft tofu, stuffed morels and a plate called Fruit Anarchy.
Picala · West Adams · April 2026Picala is a Spanish hearth built by an archaeologist, with a free tapa for every early drink
Luis Sierra studied ancient fires before he cooked over one. Under the E Line on La Cienega he serves sardine escabeche, suckling pig and gin tonicas that reward lingering.
Hôtel Lili · Beverly Hills · April 2026Hôtel Lili is a 1939 Beverly Hills house with a velvet-curtained bar and no restaurant
Palisociety's Avi Brosh dresses a three-storey private residence behind The Peninsula in crimson drapery, stripes and wallpapered ceilings.
The Valorian · West Hollywood · April 2026The Mondrian is now The Valorian, and the 30-foot doors stay on the Sunset Strip
Hilton's Curio Collection takes over a Sunset Strip landmark with an Agam, Starck and Gerber past, an Alice in Wonderland rooftop and Casa Madera downstairs.
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.
The Anthem · Inglewood · February 2026The Anthem wraps its Inglewood pool in a soundwave and gives every season its own suite
A refreshed 1961 hotel on West Century Boulevard, steps from the Intuit Dome and a short walk from SoFi Stadium, with a rooftop stage, Tom's Watch Bar and themed suites.
Cameo Beverly Hills · Beverlywood · 26 January 2026Cameo Beverly Hills gives every room a balcony and the tower a Peruvian-Japanese kitchen
The 1965 tower on Beverwil Drive, once Mr. C, reopens as Hilton's Cameo with Premier interiors, a Nikkei restaurant called Zampo and a 12th-floor ballroom deck.
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 · 31 August 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.
Bar 109 · Melrose Hill · July 2025Bar 109 is a kelp-salted martini and a Tuesday-night burger in a former furniture shop
Brian Baik, of Eleven Madison Park, fronts his Melrose Hill tasting counter with a dim walk-in bar run by a sake sommelier.
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.
AC Hotel Pasadena · Pasadena · 1 April 2025The AC Hotel Pasadena hides its driveway and hands Colorado Boulevard to a lounge and a library
Pasadena's first ground-up hotel in nearly four decades rises in Playhouse Village on the Rose Parade route, with a sixth-floor rooftop from the team behind Yamashiro.
Firstborn · Chinatown · 28 March 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 · 6 February 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.
Restaurant Ki · Little Tokyo · January 2025Restaurant Ki hides a Michelin-starred Korean counter behind a Little Tokyo cocktail bar
Ki Kim's tasting menu serves perilla sorbet, binchotan lobster and an omija granita that is the standout.
Zaytinya · Culver City · 17 December 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.
Night on Earth · Cahuenga Pass · December 2024Night on Earth clarifies the Pornstar Martini and serves it at 16°F, beside the 101
The Thunderbolt team's neon strip-mall bar in the Cahuenga Pass rebuilds the party drinks bartenders once rolled their eyes at, with a teriyaki hot dog on the side.
Seline · Santa Monica · December 2024Seline follows one ingredient all night, from celery root ice cream to a frozen mustard leaf
Dave Beran's Main Street tasting menu behind a garden gate feels like a Midwestern home, and ends in a caramel corn soup.
Somni · West Hollywood · 24 November 2024Somni begins with a giraffe, a courtyard of clouds and a cow-shaped cracker
Aitor Zabala's West Hollywood tasting menu hides its jokes inside caviar meringues and a tempura shiso leaf, and now holds three Michelin stars.
Regent Santa Monica Beach · Santa Monica · October 2024A 300,000-tile octopus sprawls across the floor of Regent's Santa Monica flagship
The former Loews on Ocean Avenue is now Regent Santa Monica Beach, with AvroKO brass arches, Michael Mina's Orla and a Guerlain spa with its own champagne room.
Companion · Venice · September 2024Companion is a Venice coffee shop that turns into a Cal-Italian trattoria with a record player
On Lincoln Boulevard, the Gnarwhal Coffee owners and chef Jack Goode serve thin New Haven-style pizza, a hand-rolled weekend pasta and orange wine.
Komal · Historic South-Central · September 2024Komal makes Mercado La Paloma a temple to heirloom corn
Fátima Juárez and Conrado Rivera's stall nixtamalises native Mexican maize daily and turns it into tlacoyos, molotes and a taco named Sonia.
Udatsu Sushi · Hollywood · September 2024Udatsu Sushi hides a Tokyo counter behind a Meiji-era door above Sunset
Hisashi Udatsu's Michelin-starred Nakameguro omakase has landed in a former Hollywood recording studio, with hay-smoked tuna and two coasts of uni.
September 2026
Rumi's Kitchen · Century City · 23 September 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.
Stay · Silver Lake · 14 September 2026Hotel Lucile
Casetta keeps the stained glass and the lit rooftop cross, puts the rooms in the old church school and sends a martini cart round the halls each evening.
Stay · Downtown · September 2026Hotel Clark
A 1914 Beaux-Arts building, without paying guests for more than 30 years, reopens as a hotel.
July 2026
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.
June 2026
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.
Eat · Venice · 4 June 2026San Damián
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.
May 2026
Bad Roman · Beverly Hills · 26 May 2026Bad Roman puts a neon-collared boar, a cork ceiling and a limoncello with Diet Coke 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.
Brick Lane · Arts District · 22 May 2026Brick Lane serves a biryani under a naan lid in an Arts District warehouse that used to be Italian
Sanjay Rawat, formerly of Kahani, cooks in a wood-fired tandoor on Sixth Street, with a bar built around jaggery, chyawanprash and cardamom.
Sushi Nakazawa · Beverly Hills · 13 May 2026The sushi counter that began with a Facebook message and Google Translate lands on Robertson
Daisuke Nakazawa, Jiro's apprentice, brings Edomae nigiri, bouncy tamago and a charcoal grill to a sea-cave of a room on the Beverly Hills border.
Jacaranda · Hancock Park · 6 May 2026Jacaranda is a ten-course dinner party in a lilac glass box, hosted by a chef and a former music editor
Daniel Patterson, of Coi, and Sarah Lewitinn, move their Hancock Park supper club to Melrose with soft tofu, stuffed morels and a plate called Fruit Anarchy.
April 2026
Picala · West Adams · April 2026Picala is a Spanish hearth built by an archaeologist, with a free tapa for every early drink
Luis Sierra studied ancient fires before he cooked over one. Under the E Line on La Cienega he serves sardine escabeche, suckling pig and gin tonicas that reward lingering.
Hôtel Lili · Beverly Hills · April 2026Hôtel Lili is a 1939 Beverly Hills house with a velvet-curtained bar and no restaurant
Palisociety's Avi Brosh dresses a three-storey private residence behind The Peninsula in crimson drapery, stripes and wallpapered ceilings.
The Valorian · West Hollywood · April 2026The Mondrian is now The Valorian, and the 30-foot doors stay on the Sunset Strip
Hilton's Curio Collection takes over a Sunset Strip landmark with an Agam, Starck and Gerber past, an Alice in Wonderland rooftop and Casa Madera downstairs.
March 2026
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.
Drink · Arts District · March 2026Lynx
The Saison chef and his bar director Brandyn Tepper won a Bib Gourmand two months into this Arts District bar, where the Sudachi daiquiri uses no lime.
February 2026
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.
The Anthem · Inglewood · February 2026The Anthem wraps its Inglewood pool in a soundwave and gives every season its own suite
A refreshed 1961 hotel on West Century Boulevard, steps from the Intuit Dome and a short walk from SoFi Stadium, with a rooftop stage, Tom's Watch Bar and themed suites.
December 2025
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.
October 2025
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.
March 2025
Firstborn · Chinatown · 28 March 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.
Stay · Hollywood · March 2025Whisky Hotel
Adolfo Suaya's first US hotel: 132 adults-only rooms and a rooftop.
December 2024
Zaytinya · Culver City · 17 December 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.
Night on Earth · Cahuenga Pass · December 2024Night on Earth clarifies the Pornstar Martini and serves it at 16°F, beside the 101
The Thunderbolt team's neon strip-mall bar in the Cahuenga Pass rebuilds the party drinks bartenders once rolled their eyes at, with a teriyaki hot dog on the side.
Seline · Santa Monica · December 2024Seline follows one ingredient all night, from celery root ice cream to a frozen mustard leaf
Dave Beran's Main Street tasting menu behind a garden gate feels like a Midwestern home, and ends in a caramel corn soup.
September 2024
Companion · Venice · September 2024Companion is a Venice coffee shop that turns into a Cal-Italian trattoria with a record player
On Lincoln Boulevard, the Gnarwhal Coffee owners and chef Jack Goode serve thin New Haven-style pizza, a hand-rolled weekend pasta and orange wine.
Komal · Historic South-Central · September 2024Komal makes Mercado La Paloma a temple to heirloom corn
Fátima Juárez and Conrado Rivera's stall nixtamalises native Mexican maize daily and turns it into tlacoyos, molotes and a taco named Sonia.
Udatsu Sushi · Hollywood · September 2024Udatsu Sushi hides a Tokyo counter behind a Meiji-era door above Sunset
Hisashi Udatsu's Michelin-starred Nakameguro omakase has landed in a former Hollywood recording studio, with hay-smoked tuna and two coasts of uni.
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