Chad Colby's East Hollywood pasta room runs on a wood-fired oven, a serious produce program, and the conviction that handmade pasta deserves a venue of its own. The rigatoni vacca ...
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Saffy's
Middle Eastern / Kebab House
The Bavel/Bestia team's East Hollywood kebab house — big-format skewers grilled over fire, hummus that deserves its own supply chain, and a dining room scaled for the tagines that ...
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Azizam
Persian · LA Times 101 Best Restaurants
Chef Andy Kabbash runs a small East Hollywood restaurant with Persian-leaning dishes built around fesenjoon, saffron rice, and well-spiced koobideh kebabs. The room is compact, the...
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Found Oyster
Seafood / Oyster Bar
30-seat East Hollywood seafood spot that turned Fountain Ave into an oyster destination. Disco ball overhead, wall of natural wine, daily-handwritten specials card, shellfish tower...
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Kuya Lord
Filipino
LA's definitive Filipino restaurant from James Beard-nominated chef Nico Vera — soulful traditional dishes like kare-kare, sisig, and lechon kawali served in a bright, welcoming Ea...
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Budonoki
Japanese / Bistro
A Japanese-run wine bistro in Virgil Village that looks exactly like what you hope to find at 8 p.m. on a Tuesday. The steak frites is aggressively great — cooked over charcoal, sa...
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The Virgil
Cocktail Bar / Live Music
East Hollywood cocktail bar that alternates live DJs and live bands across Afro-Cuban, funk, hip-hop soul. Velvet-and-gold interior, dance floor in the back, drinks better than the...
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Harvard & Stone
Cocktail Bar · Houston Hospitality concept
Houston Hospitality's Hollywood Boulevard industrial cocktail room — a rotating guest-bartender program, a late-night crowd, and a burlesque-and-live-music schedule that keeps the ...
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Fountain Grains & Greens
Healthy / Salads
East Hollywood's produce-forward bowl shop, pulling from the kind of farmers' market sources that make a $16 salad actually feel earned. Bright, fast, a Silver Lake-adjacent remind...