📍 Chinatown, Los Angeles

David Chang's LA outpost, parked in a converted Chinatown warehouse, blends Korean and Chinese pantries with a Momofuku instinct for hitting hard on a few specific dishes. The whol...

Anthony Wang took over the former Pok Pok space in Chinatown and built a Chinese American kitchen that treats both halves of that hyphen with equal seriousness. The menu moves betw...

Perilla is a Korean restaurant tucked into a Chinatown building on Alpine Street, away from the Koreatown core where most of the city's Korean dining clusters. It serves a sit-down...

The restaurant that put Nashville-style hot chicken on the LA map, operating out of Chinatown. Pick your heat level from Country to Howlin' and plan accordingly. The mac and cheese...

The French Dip sandwich was invented here in 1918 when Philippe Mathieu accidentally dropped a roll into a roasting pan. Still in the same Alameda Street space, still with sawdust ...

Highland Park Brewery's Chinatown taproom is where the LA underdog turned national contender does its loudest experimenting. The warehouse pours crisp lagers, hop-saturated IPAs, a...

Wes Avila's Chinatown dinette serves sandwiches with flavor combinations that sound unhinged on paper and work perfectly on the plate. House-baked bread, aggressive seasoning, and ...

Howlin' Ray's serves Nashville-style hot chicken from its counter in Chinatown, Los Angeles. The kitchen runs heat levels from mild to its notorious top tier, plating fried chicken...

Apothecary-themed Chinatown bar where the drinks menu reads as prescriptions and the ingredients are actual herbs, spices, tinctures. Could be cringe; isn't, because they follow th...

Operating since 1934 on Olvera Street — the walk-up stand that claims to have invented the hard-shell taquito drowned in avocado sauce. Cash only, counter-service only, lunch line ...