anajak
antico nuovo
bavel
birdie g’s
found oyster
holbox
holy basil
ipoh kopitiam
kato
lasita
macheen
moo’s
morihiro
needle
pasjoli
perilla
pine & crane
ponchos tlayudas
quarter sheets
replublique
the ruby fruit
tsubaki
yangban
yang’s kitchen
yess
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What is ‘the ruby fruit’?
lesbian bar
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Bar/Restaurant in the former Eszett space, and before that it was Allegria.
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I thought this list was really boring. It’s basically 25 restaurants in LA everyone already knows about or has been written about/talked about - would have been nice to see more outliers.
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That’s fair, but if I were making reccos to someone visiting LA who is a NYtimes reader this is spot on.
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Other than the fact that this list doesn’t include my four favorite restaurants—Maude, Hayato, Providence, and Sushi Ginza Onodera—I think it’s not a bad list.
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Have you been to Maude recently? Curious how did the menu is. I went shortly after the reopen and it was…fine! And service was spotty.
Peony: please see pictures from our recent visit below. The food was really impressive! We feel Maude has elevated so much especially since last year!
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nice! looks like no repeats from the time I went. For a while I was keeping up with recent instas and such and 80% of the menu was the same sans some seasonal adjustments but it looks like they’re branching out. I’m excited to do a revisit. Thank you for posting these.
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What would be the outliers? I get the feeling LA food and media have reached a level where anything that is great is already known and written about and there are no secrets anymore.
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Macheen’s not one of the usual suspects for such lists.
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Seemed to be a conscience effort to spread out the cuisine and areas.
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Antico Nuovo??? LMAOOO
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The NY Times comment section cracks me up. So much bitching and whining.
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If I had the time to find those outliers I could be the columnist 
. I think I would just like to know about new restaurants a la Jonathan Gold vs. a regurgitation of the same places that are hard to get into/everyone knows about
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isn’t that what ftc is for?
get into baroo now before the nyt blows it up.
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OMG have you ever read the comment section when Eric Asimov writes a column. So much whining
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Sure but I feel like I read food media to find out about new places and read criticism/someone who spends 5-6 days a week eating out (which I don’t). I feel like the current food media is starting to all resemble one another: LATimes, NYTimes, Eater, Infatuation etc. Though I think Bill Addison at LAT tries to do the JGold approach and also find hidden gems in LA.
I mean there are thousands of restaurants in LA not including everything within a short drive from LA. I’d imagine there’s lots of hidden spots that don’t get written about enough.
A good example would be LATaco which I feel like goes out of its way to find very out of the radar restaurants/taquerias.
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