Found Oyster is one of the best seafood restaurants in LA. We love this East Hollywood spot so much, we wish we didn’t have to tell you about it.

Bloom & Plume is a very colorful, very vibrant coffee shop in Historic Filipinotown.

Bar Avalon is an all-day wine bar/restaurant in Echo Park that’s one of the best-kept secrets in town.

Tilda is a wine bar in Echo Park that has everything - bottles of natural wines, French-ish snacks, and a room full of people way cooler than you.

Bar Restaurant might have a boring name, but the French food at this Silver Lake spot is anything but.

Colapasta in Santa Monica is your new spot for affordable pastas - because everyone needs one.

Yapa is a very good Peruvian-Japanese restaurant in Little Tokyo that’s perfect for any kind of date night.

Eszett is an Austrian-ish spot on Sunset in Silver Lake, and an ideal place when you want to do date night a little differently.

Grá is a cozy new spot in Historic Filipinotown that’s serving sourdough pizzas.

Malibu’s Broad Street Oyster Company is the grown-up version of a pop-up, and the ultimate LA seafood destination.

Chao Krung is one of the oldest Thai restaurants in LA with a newly revamped menu that’s tremendous.

Lolo in East Hollywood is the perfect wine bar to get cozy with a date.

Thunderbolt in Echo Park is a fairly new bar, but it already feels like a neighborhood institution.

A big Mexican restaurant on with four locations around Inglewood, Fiesta Martin on La Brea is an excellent place to come with a big group.

Bar Flores is the exotic, low-key cocktail bar Echo Park deserves. It’s very fragrant inside, too.

Fia in Santa Monica serves a wide menu of Italian-ish dishes, has a gorgeous patio, and will probably be a location in a rom-com one day.