Jon & Vinny’s on Fairfax is an incredible take on American-Italian food, and it’s a place we go back to again and again.

Animal, on Fairfax, is a restaurant that gets almost everything right.

Sqirl is a perpetually-crowded cafe/bakery in Virgil Village and our favorite brunch spot in LA.

In a city increasingly dominated by mega-restaurants from other cities, All Time is a Los Feliz cafe that feels like an LA original.

Salazar in Frogtown is a Mexican BBQ restaurant that’s teaching LA how to be its best self.

This third location of Sichuan Impression in West LA has the same great Chinese food as the original, with a bigger space.

Lunasia’s Alhambra location serves the best dim sum in Los Angeles, and is always worth the hours-long wait.

Destroyer, a futuristic daytime spot in Culver City, has some of the most interesting food coming out of LA right now.

It's not every day you want to drive down to Grand Central Market, but if it's for Wexler's pastrami you simply make the exception.

We don’t use the term “destination restaurant” lightly. But the seafood at Manhattan Beach’s Fishing With Dynamite more than fits the bill.

Phnom Penh Noodle Shack is a Cambodian breakfast spot in Long Beach with incredible noodle dishes and a rice porridge that will cure all ailments.

Sycamore Kitchen might be the most affordable, quality brunch in Los Angeles.

Hatchet Hall is a Southern-leaning small plates restaurant in Culver City where you’ll actually leave full.

Orsa & Winston is an Italian-Japanese restaurant in DTLA that’s just as good for a casual lunch as it is for a special occasion dinner.

Freedman’s is a fantastic comfort food spot in Silver Lake that’s good for everything from a first date to a life-saving reuben with your roommate.

Kismet, the Mediterranean-Middle Eastern restaurant in Los Feliz, is the kind of restaurant all of LA wants to be hanging out in.