For drinks and small plates in the Arts District, Simone is a good choice.

Viale Dei Romani is a hotel restaurant that happens to serve very good food.

Atrium is a beautiful restaurant in Los Feliz with a menu that feels all over the place.

Chi Spacca in Hollywood is one of our favorite places to get excessive in LA.

AOC is a small plates restaurant that’s one of LA’s most reliable crowd pleasers.

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

Kasih is an Indonesian restaurant in Little Tokyo that works well for a nice casual dinner you don’t have to plan in advance.

Spartina, a casual Italian restaurant on Melrose, is one of West Hollywood’s better backup restaurants.

Roberta’s has very good pizzas, but hasn’t realized that pizzas are the thing this Culver City spot should stick to.

Sushi note is part sushi spot, part wine bar, and unlike any other place to eat raw fish in the city.

The food at Triniti in Echo Park is like what you’d find in a fancy restaurant. Except you’re eating it in a coffee shop.

Bell's is a casual French bistro in Los Alamos and the kind of place that makes you want to leave your city life behind and move to wine country.

Ronan is casual pizzeria on Melrose that serves some of our favorite pizza in West Hollywood.

The Restaurant at The NoMad in DTLA is a uniquely LA casual-feeling fancy restaurant.

Fish Eight is a sushi bar on Melrose in West Hollywood with extremely high-quality fish at affordable prices.

Castaway is a Burbank classic with mediocre food and a fantastic view.