📍 Echo Park, Los Angeles

Chef Morihiro Onodera's Echo Park condo-tower sushi counter — the sushi-equivalent of a private jazz club. $400 omakase pacing, suit-wearing service, and cocktails poured at the le...

Charles Namba and Courtney Kaplan's Echo Park izakaya runs seasonal small plates and Japanese drinking food. The kitchen treats izakaya as a format, not a formula — dishes shift wi...

Detroit-style square pizza in Echo Park that made the Bib Gourmand list on the strength of the crust. Crispy-bottomed edge, cheese pulled to the pan walls, toppings layered with th...

Echo Park's East-Coast-Italian-American cult favorite — red-sauce classics cooked with enough restraint to feel like an updated Marco Polo. Spaghetti and meatballs are on every tab...

Chef Charles Namba and sommelier Courtney Kaplan's second Echo Park room — an izakaya whose sake list is routinely called one of the three best in the US. Japanese curry, karaage, ...

Echo Park's 350-capacity indie-rock anchor — sister venue The Echoplex below. Programming runs from LA buzz bands to touring indie acts, and the bar crowd is a cross-section of eas...

Ricardo Zarate and Diego Argoti's Echo Park Peruvian — ceviche, causa, and a cocktail program treating Peruvian ingredients as bar staples rather than novelties. Pairing them gives...

Ricardo Zarate (Mo-Chica, Picca) opened one of LA's most specific ceviche programs inside an Echo Park dining room that feels transplanted from Lima. Peruvian-Japanese Nikkei hand ...

The Echo Park original — Armando De La Torre's braised-meat taco shop that turned the homestyle Mexican stew-on-a-tortilla formula into a multi-LA chain. The sampler plate is the w...

The former Cosa Buona space reopened as a modern Chinese room with a vegan-leaning menu that carnivores still put on their best-of lists. Pan-fried dumplings, seasonal vegetable pr...