Amara Chocolate & Coffee is a low-key Pasadena spot with excellent Venezuelan arepas.

Wine + Eggs is a color-bombed provisions store in Atwater Village. It's great for picking up a bottle of wine and cheese.

Steep is a modern teahouse in Chinatown with a prolific selection of teas and Chinese/Taiwanese dishes.

Seongbukdong is a casual restaurant in Koreatown serving one of our favorite bibimbaps in town.

We love Yu Chun in Koreatown for their fantastic naengmyeon noodles and traditional bibimbap.

Hangari Bajirak Kalguksoo is a Ktown restaurant that specializes in knife-cut noodles an excellent bibimbap.

Gozen is a high-end kaiseki restaurant on La Cienega with excellent sushi, sake, and other small plates.

Kagura in Torrance is a laidback izakaya serving a powerful tonkatsu.

Fukugawa is a hidden restaurant in Gardena that serves one of the best Japanese breakfast sets around.

Silog in the South Bay is serving fusion Filipino rice bowls that will bring you comfort on even the hardest of days.

Soo Good Lutong Pinoy is a restaurant in Glendale that’s serving excellent classic Filipino dishes.

Bamboo Bistro is an Filipino restaurant in the Valley that serves excellent home-style cooking.

Adana in Glendale makes some of the best chicken kababs in town.

Pearl River Deli is known for their Hainan chicken, but don’t be fooled - there’s so much more going on at this to-go window in Chinatown.

Hyesung Noodle House in Koreatown is the first U.S. outpost of a Seoul institution where ordering is simple - you get the kalguksu.

Sogo Roll Bar in Los Feliz rolls up some of highest quality and most interesting fish in LA.