The best way to explore a place is through its food. A culinary mecca,
Los Angeles is renowned for its restaurants, has become the ultimate gastronomic destination of the world and has managed to bring out the city's best culinary art. L.A.'s sophisticated restaurants have already set a benchmark in cosmopolitan dining experience. You cannot afford to give a miss, the city's street food fiesta. Whether you seek a fine dining experience, a modest and tasty treat or a vegan outing, L.A. delivers everything at its best.
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Lobster Roll at Connie and Ted's
Connie and Ted's is located in the heart of West Hollywood serves some of the best lobster roll in L.A. The restaurant's raw bar gives you a close up view f the kitchen and enjoy its delicacies, such as oysters, lobsters, shrimp, crabs, clams and spot prawns. The cocktail list is limited, but the few available ones are excellent.
Must try seaside plates: Grilled or steamed lobster served with drawn butter, fried clams served with tartar sauce and fries, and a clam bake of mussels, steamer clams, lobster, linguica (Portuguese sausage) and steamed potatoes and corn.
Address: 8171 Santa Monica Blvd
Los Angeles
Website: www.connieandteds.comOpening hours: Mon-Tue 4-10pm; Wed-Sat 11:30am-11pm; Sun 11:30am-10pm
Looking for the Best Burgers! Step in 25 Degrees
This is the city's swanky burger joints, which serves one of the best burgers - juicy patties piled with delicious toppings. You can customize and order your own creation or you can try out the
famous ones like Number Four, made with yellow fin tuna, butter lettuce and crispy fried onions. And make sure you gulp it down with its delicious milkshake.
Address: Roosevelt
Hotel 7000 Hollywood Blvd
Los Angeles
Website: www.25degreesrestaurant.com
Opening hours: Daily 24/7
Italian Cuisine at its Best! Bestia
The new trend setter in fine dining experience is the Bestia. This classy Italian joint serves beautiful house cure salumi with perfectly-crafted cocktails and great selection of wines.
Highlights of the restaurant include, house salad and crudo, pizzas out of the wood-burning oven, spicy pomodoro sauced with buttery uni, superb pastas, braised beef cheek-filled agnolotti and spaghetti rustichella.
Address: 2121 E 7th Pl
Los Angeles
Website: www.bestiala.comOpening hours: Sun,Tue-Thur 5-11pm; Fri, Sat 6pm-midnight
Relish the Best Plate of Oyster at Blue Plate Oysterette
The best place to treat you with oysters on half shell and seafood platters.
Must try here- fish tacos and lobster mac and cheese, crab cakes and fish and chips, strip steak and grilled chicken.
Address: 8048 W 3rd Street
Los Angeles
Website: www.blueplatesantamonica.comOpening hours: Sun-Thu Noon-10pm; Fri, Sat Noon-Midnight
Choi Fan's Retreat! Chego
Famous for its rice bowls, stuffed with delicious heavy meat toppings like pork belly, rib and chicarrones, Chego is a home for Choi fans. The dedicated kimchi lovers from across the city come here to enjoy this bowl of rice.
Address: 727 North Broadway
Los Angeles
Website: www.eatchego.com
Opening hours: 11-11pm Tue-Sat; 11am-9pm Sun
Authentic Thai Cuisine at Wat Dong Moon Lek
If you are looking for some awesome, ordinary Thai food, Wat Dong Moon Lek is the right stop. The restaurant's focal point is on noodle, with varieties to choose from. Must try dish are - the namesake beef noodle soup, kow soi, Japanese fusion — tom yum udon. You must ask for the off-menu, to try something special, like Laarb tod, prepared of crispy deep fried balls of Northeastern-style minced meat and herbs.
Address: 4356 Fountain Ave
Los Angeles
Website: www.watdongmoonlek.comOpening hours: Daily 11am-10pm
Best budget Indulgent! A-Frame's all you can eat fried chicken
This a Hawain centric eatery that offers numerous delicacies. The all you can eat fried chicken feast is a $18 per person platter that includes crispy fried meat, chile, sweet potato salad, garlic dipping sauce and cole slaw. You can feast more with bottomless pitchers of Hite Lager, for an extra $10.
Other delicacies you can try: Loco Moco: Hambagu steak, the ribs doused in a hoisin chili glaze, dried Korean shortrib, Big John Chili Rice Cakes, tropical flair Cocktails.
Address: 12565 Washington Blvd
Los Angeles
Opening hours: Mon-Thu, Sun 5-11pm; Fri-Sat 5pm-midnight. Lunch Sat-Sun noon-3pm
The Best Cut of Steak at Cut
Cut
has won many accolades , Michelin star and several 'Best New
Restaurant' awards winner restaurant is located inside the
Beverly-Wilshire
hotel. Steak lovers from across the city and beyond,
come hunting for this place, which serves the best steak in its
artistically decked up dining rooms. Cut is unique because here, diners
not just choose the type of steak, but they also get to choose where the
steak came from.
Address: Beverly Wilshire Hotel
9500 Wilshire Boulevard
Los Angeles
Website: www.wolfgangpuck.comOpening hours: Mon-Thu 6pm-10pm; Fri 6pm-11pm; Sat 5:30pm-11pm
Chinese Food? Stop at Elite Restaurant
As the name suggests, the restaurant showcases it elite touches by abstaining from the traditional pushcarts seen in many other dim sum restaurants. The restaurant serves some heavenly dim dum, crystal shrimp dumplings, almond-filled snow buns and the star of the restaurant - egg tarts.
Address: 700 S Atlantic Blvd
Los Angeles
Website: www.elitechineserestaurant.comOpening hours: 10am-3pm, 5-10pm Mon-Fri; 9am-3pm, 5-10pm Sat-Sun
Paru's Indian Vegetarian Restaurant
Are you looking for a pure vegetarian restaurant? Paru is the one. The locals usually describes this restaurant as an oasis in the middle of a nondescript stretch of Sunset. The restaurant serves scrumptious South Indian food, that engulfs you with a warmth smell of herbs as you enter the dining room.
Menu's choice: Indian Thali, Queen Paru, idli
Address: 5140 W Sunset Blvd
Los Angeles
Website: www.parusrestaurant.comOpening hours: Mon-Fri 5-11pm; Sat, Sun 3-11pm
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