📍 Mid-Wilshire, Los Angeles

Keizo Seki's Hollywood omakase outpost — chef-driven Edomae-style sushi, tight counter, and a pacing format that rewards paying attention. Held a Michelin star for several years be...

An all-day French-inflected cafe and dining room inside Charlie Chaplin's 1929 Mid-Wilshire building — the kind of LA address where the architecture is half the meal. Mornings belo...

Vinny and Mindy Kinne expand their mid-Wilshire orbit with a sleek Asian diasporic restaurant. Tuna crudo, soft shell crab curry, and a crying tiger rib-eye anchor a menu that roam...

Daniel Cutler's Beverly Boulevard pizza-and-pasta destination — a wood-oven bistro that lands somewhere between a Roman pizzeria and a California new-American restaurant. Pies with...

Busan-style pork gukbap — bone broth simmered for a day, shredded pork, rice, green onions, the kind of bowl that cures a Saturday. Jinsol is the K-town entry for this regional spe...

Ginseng chicken soup cooked for the four hours it takes to become medicinal. Jun Won Dak specializes in the Korean idea of cooking-as-health-intervention — samgyetang, bone soups, ...

La Brea-adjacent brewery-bar that punches above the strip-mall address. Extensive beer list, decent cocktails for non-beer drinkers, room big enough to take a group. Weekend-brunch...