Industrial-chic Arts District Italian powerhouse known for house-made pastas, wood-fired pizzas, and inventive salumi. A perennial reservation chase.
95
2
Osteria Mozza
Italian · Hollywood · James Beard Award
Nancy Silverton's mozzarella-worshipping Italian fine dining room. The celebrated mozzarella bar and handmade pastas are extraordinary.
95
3
Pizzeria Mozza
Italian · Hollywood · James Beard Award
Nancy Silverton's acclaimed pizzeria serving beautifully blistered pies and impeccable antipasti. The gold standard for LA pizza since 2006.
94
4
Chi Spacca
Italian / Steakhouse · Hollywood · LA Times 101 Best Restaurants
Nancy Silverton's carnivore's paradise next door to Mozza — whole animal roasts, bistecca Fiorentina, and salumi platters.
93
5
Orsa & Winston
Contemporary / Japanese-Italian · Downtown LA · Michelin 1-Star
Chef Josef Centeno's Downtown tasting-menu room — the one Michelin remembered before everyone else did. Ten-course Japanese-Italian hybrid, intimate counter seating, and the kind of restraint that sep...
93
6
Funke
Italian / Pasta · Beverly Hills
Evan Funke's multi-level Beverly Hills headquarters for handmade pasta — the fresh-pasta temple he's spent a career building, now with a rooftop bar and prices to match the zip code. Rigatoni vodka, c...
93
7
Mother Wolf
Roman Italian · Hollywood
Evan Funke's Hollywood Roman-pasta temple and one of the hardest reservations to land in LA. The room is cinematic — velvet booths, Roman statuary, a pasta station in the dining room — and the four bi...
93
8
Felix Trattoria
Italian / Roman / Neapolitan · Venice
Evan Funke's original pasta temple on Abbot Kinney — the Venice room that reset LA's pasta conversation when it opened. Handmade pasta station visible from the dining room, pizza from a Naples-certifi...
93
9
Antico Nuovo
Italian / Pasta · East Hollywood · LA Times 101 Best Restaurants
Chef Chad Colby's handmade pasta destination with a wood-fired oven, impeccably sourced produce, and legendary fresh pastas.
92
10
Marea
Coastal Italian / Seafood · Beverly Hills
NYC's two-Michelin-star Marea transplanted to Beverly Hills with the pasta-program signatures intact. The fusilli with red-wine-braised octopus and bone marrow — the Michael White classic — reads the ...