📍 West LA, Los Angeles
3 restaurants · 2026
🍽️ 3 Restaurants
A quiet pocket of Sawtelle-adjacent Japanese precision: chef-driven omakase counters and a decades-old diner counter that outlasted every trend around it.
Top 3 in West LA
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Sushi Ginza Onodera
An omakase-only counter on the West LA stretch where Tokyo-trained itamae work fish flown in from Toyosu the same way they would in Ginza. The chef's progression moves from otoro t...
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2
Mori Nozomi
Nozomi Mori's West LA omakase counter borrows the cadence of a tea ceremony and applies it to a $280 progression of Toyosu Market fish. Hairy crab in season, bluefin worked through...
95
3
The Apple Pan
Operating since 1947 — a horseshoe counter, paper-plates-and-wax-paper service, and burgers cooked on the same griddle the Oppenheimer family has used for three generations. The Hi...
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