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Small Plates
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Justine’s Wine Bar
Justine's Wine Bar is a fun, campy wine bar in Frogtown with great vegan Italian food. Get the mushroom calamari.
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Peking Tavern
Peking Tavern is a Little Tokyo bar where you should drink delicious baijiu cocktails and split dim sum and hand-pulled noodles.
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Xuntos
Xuntos is a northern Spanish tapas restaurant in Santa Monica that works well for a date with someone you'd like to ideally see again.
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The Ruby Fruit
The Ruby Fruit is more than just a Silver Lake wine bar. It's a community center, a queer space, and a daytime diner with excellent comfort food.
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Isla
Isla is a bright, breezy California-ish restaurant in Santa Monica with excellent cocktails and skewers.
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Mezzanine Sushi
Mezzanine Sushi is an upscale izakaya in Beverly Grove and a good spot for drinks and small plates before going out.
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Dunsmoor
Dunsmoor is an upscale, Southern-leaning restaurant in Glassell Park that cooks almost everything over wood fire.
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Lunasia Dim Sum House Pasadena
Over-ordering at Lunasia Dim Sum House in Pasadena is not so much a problem as it is a necessity.
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Son of A Gun
Son Of A Gun is a seafood restaurant in Beverly Grove that’s one of the most consistent places to eat in Los Angeles.
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La Paella
La Paella is a Spanish restaurant in Beverly Grove with a big tapas menu and great paella.
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Marvin
Marvin is a neighborhood French restaurant/wine bar where you’ll want to hang out all night.
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Aburiya Raku
The LA outpost of this off-the-strip Vegas favorite is overpriced, bland, and boring.
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Shandong Dumplings
Shandong Dumplings in Pasadena serves good noodle dishes, a few great dumplings, and a fantastic scallion pancake.
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Le Comptoir
Le Comptoir is a tiny prix-fixe restaurant in Koreatown that feels like a dinner party with friends.
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Bar Amá
A casual, neighborhood-y Tex-Mex restaurant from DTLA’s best chef. This is a spot Downtown needs.