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🌴 Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles
5 restaurants · 2026
🍽️ 5 Restaurants
✨ Mexican, Cocktails, Sushi
San Fernando Valley dining strip centered on Ventura Boulevard — a residential foodie pocket that punches well above its zip code for cocktails, sushi, and modern Mexican.
Known for: Ventura Boulevard restaurants, Valley foodie scene
Don't miss: Daisy Margarita Bar, Casa Vega, Pineapple Hill Saloon
💡 The Ventura Boulevard stretch between Sepulveda and Van Nuys Blvd is the densest food-and-drink corridor in the Valley.
Top 5 in Sherman Oaks
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Anajak Thai Cuisine
Thai · Eater LA 38 (Spring 2026)
Chef Justin Pichetrungsi took over his father's Sherman Oaks restaurant, adding top-quality seafood and one of the West Coast's best wine lists.
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Daisy Margarita Bar
Mexican / Margarita Bar · North America's 50 Best Bars 2025 (#44)
The Mírate team — proprietor Matt Egan, chef Alan Sanz, and beverage director Max Reis — brought their Mexican hospitality across the hill in June 2025, reworking the old Sherman s...
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3
Uoichiba Handroll Bar
Japanese / Sushi
Tucked behind a dry-aged fish market on Ventura Boulevard, Uoichiba is one of the Valley's most specific sushi bars — a hand-roll-focused omakase where every piece comes off the ma...
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4
BLVD Steak
Steakhouse
The Sherman Oaks steakhouse celebrities pick when they don't want to be seen driving into Beverly Hills. High-end prime cuts, bone marrow as an appetizer, and a dining room designe...
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5
Casa Vega
Mexican
Operating since 1956 and still the Valley's mellow celebrity-sighting Mexican — dim red leather booths, hearty plates, strong margaritas, and regulars who've had the same table sin...
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North America Top 50 Bar (1)
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