Your Los Angeles Restaurant Weekend Guide: September 11
Branzino. | Shelby Moore Every Friday, our editors compile a trusty list of recommendations to answer the most pressing of questions: “Where should I eat?“ Here are four places to check out this weekend in Los Angeles. And if you need some ideas on where to drink, here’s our list of the hottest places to get cocktails in town. For Korean coffee drinks and Spam musubi: Mokja in Highland Park Chef Debbie Lee has teamed up with Be Bright’s Frank La to open Mokja, a Korean cafe and market tucked behind Yi Cha in Highland Park. Just more than a month in, Mokja seems to already be firing on all cylinders, churning out refreshing yuzu cold brews and musubi stacked with salty Spam and a fluffy slab of egg. The mayak egg sando has become an early hit, along with the fall apart tender oxtail handpie. Mokja feels like the type of place that will grow into a neighborhood staple, whether you’re looking to catch up with friends over a cup of coffee or build your own ramen for a quick lunch. Be sure
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The Most Anticipated Los Angeles Restaurant Openings, Fall 2026
An herby roasted trout at Sous Sous. | Patrick Michael Chin for Casetta As summer comes racing to an end (ideally, Southern California’s blisteringly hot weather will do the same), Los Angeles has an exciting roster of new restaurants entering the city this fall. This lineup feels like a welcome sight, especially during a challenging year when longtime favorites continue to close. Starting in mid-September, Los Angeles will welcome a stunning new restaurant inside a nearly 100-year-old Silver Lake church, one within the staggeringly futuristic Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, and a cocktail bar above the ultra-popular Daisy in Sherman Oaks. Sous Sous — Silver Lake Projected opening: September 11Major players: Chef Patrick Costa, Lee Zaremba, Casetta HotelsIn collaboration with Casetta Hotels, the De La Nonna crew will open Sous Sous on September 11, 2026. Sous Sous starts with Southern French cooking as its foundation while combining the traditions of Southern California and the American
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Chef Keith Corbin Gets Experimental with Alta Adam’s New Menu
New dishes at Alta Adams. | Yasara Gunawardena Alta Adams recently went through a months-long metamorphosis, closing from February to May of this year and emerging as a restaurant reimagined. The interior was refreshed while the California Soul menu that put chef Keith Corbin on the map got an infusion of new dishes and inspiration. Corbin told Eater that Alta, “still [has] Southern aspects here,” but the menu is no longer “just based around the same 10 to 15 dishes everyone knows.” Instead, Corbin used his soul cooking chops to shape a hyperseasonal menu influenced by his travels and the different communities of Los Angeles with nods to Mexican, Nigerian, Tunisian, and Japanese cuisines. Whether that be serving mole alongside his duck dish or using miso and koji caramel, the new Alta is an homage to Keith Corbin’s experiences and how he witnesses Los Angeles. What to order The black-eyed pea salad is a crash-course in playful textures with salty pops of meaty ham hock against the nut
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Alto in Studio City Demands Your Attention
Pork txuleta at Alto in Studio City. | Matthew Kang Given the supremacy of Mexican and Central American cuisines in greater Los Angeles, it’s noteworthy when flavors from South American countries make a mark in the city; think Carlitos Gardel’s Argentine steakhouse fare, H&H’s Brazilian barbecue specialties, and now the Argentine-Uruguayan wood-fired dishes from Studio City’s Alto. Coming from chef Esteban Klenzi and Juana Castellanos, the rustic dining room with mottled blue hues, soft white skylights, and dark mahogany beams visually gives way to the lower-level open wood-fired kitchen. The roar of the fires and gentle music render a magical, escapist quality, like you’re pulled into a hidden restaurant inside a five-star hotel in Buenos Aires. Once seated, you’re likely going to start with one of four house breads, like the tapioca cheese bread or torta frita dressed with rosemary honey. From there, you can choose your meat-filled adventure that will progress from charred beef empan
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Where to Eat Big, Juicy Steaks in Los Angeles
Kali Steak. | Wonho Frank Lee A richly marbled, perfectly grilled steak is one of life’s greatest pleasures. Thankfully, Los Angeles has no shortage of feast-worthy steakhouses, with top-tier restaurants serving inventive and classic cocktails and sides, as well as all kinds of expertly rendered red meat. If classic chophouses, modern steak palaces, or lounges that serve dashes of Japanese flavors are objects of your dinner desire, steakhouses in Los Angeles will easily satisfy. Here are the best steakhouses in Los Angeles; for grilling action in Los Angeles’s Koreatown, visit the Korean barbecue map. Changes this round: West Hollywood’s Boa leaves the list, while longtime tiki steakhouse icon Damon’s, tony chain Lucky’s, and Argentine-Uruguayan Alto join. Matthew Kang tries to visit a steakhouse at least once a month because it offers, in some ways, the most accessible kind of upscale dining. His favorite cut of steak might be the bone-in rib-eye, dry-aged at least 35 days, grilled ov
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Best Los Angeles Restaurants for Takeout and Delivery, According to Eater Editors
Top Restaurant's fried chicken. | Wonho Frank Lee Over the past few years, almost every restaurant has had to figure out a way to offer some version of takeout and delivery food, but that does not mean that everyone has mastered the craft. There are definitely certain kinds of food that can work well after a few minutes of sitting in to-go containers, like Filipino rice dishes or Thai curries, and sometimes restaurants do an exemplary job of preparing foods so they can be thoughtfully reheated without changing the integrity of the flavors — or eaten on the spot inside a car. It’s no easy task to sort through the middling takeout options, though, so best to leave it to the professionals. Here are the best restaurants that have perfected takeout and delivery in Los Angeles. New this update: This update adds a handful of picks to the list, including Valley vegan restaurant El Cocinero, Caribbean restaurant Bridgetown Roti, and Persian restaurants Kuku Cafe and Taste of Tehran. Leaving the
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Rossoblu and Employees Only Are Los Angeles’s Latest Brutal Restaurant Closures
Rossoblu, Downtown Los Angeles | Wonho Frank Lee Over Labor Day weekend, a locally loved Downtown Los Angeles Italian restaurant and West Hollywood bar, the latter originally a transplant from New York, separately announced they would cease operations in 2026. The nearly 10-year-old Rossoblu, chef Steve Samson and wife–business partner Dina Samson’s Northern Italian restaurant, will close on Sunday, November 1, 2026; the Samsons tell Eater they recently sold the business. West Hollywood’s Employees Only, which debuted in 2018 on Santa Monica Boulevard slightly west of Fairfax Avenue, will serve its final cocktail on Sunday, September 27. Both business owners echoed similar challenges surrounding the general dining slowdown in Los Angeles, plus cost increases with labor, rent, ingredients, and more. Employees Only managing partner Tom Sopit says that the current business and consumer climate made it difficult to stay open. “It wasn’t really one thing that killed us,” says Sopit. “It was
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The Best French Restaurants in Los Angeles
Camélia. | Wonho Frank Lee For those seeking French fare across the city, look no further than these charming, California-coded bistros and brasseries. Each place fits the bill for romantic date nights or casual lunches with friends over classics like steak frites, croque monsieurs, and escargot, all washed down with a bottle of Bordeaux, of course. The cuisine has proliferated in Los Angeles over the last two years, making it even more exciting to go out and say “oui” to that third glass of wine as the parade of French favorites marches out. Here are the best French bistros and brasseries in Los Angeles. New this update: Electric Bleu joins the list, while the now-closed Amour leaves. Rebecca Roland is a devoted fan of steak frites (always cooked to medium rare), and will always be chasing that perfect baguette and butter. Matthew Kang considers Paris one of the world’s greatest cities and loves the bistro fare at Josephine Chez Dumonet, a restaurant that probably cannot be replicated
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The Best Caribbean Restaurants in Los Angeles, According to Eater Editors
Bridgetown Roti. | Wonho Frank Lee Los Angeles’s small-but-mighty Caribbean diasporic restaurant scene includes compelling community destinations specializing in Jamaican, Cuban, Trinidadian, Puerto Rican, Belizean, Dominican, Haitian, and Garifuna cuisines. Influenced by Indigenous traditions, the Transatlantic Slave Trade and other colonizing forces, immigrants from India, and local tropical ingredients, the Caribbean’s flavors are as vast as the region itself, which includes two dozen island nations. The results are unique and flavorful dishes like Jamaican jerk chicken, Dominican pernil, and Belizean panades. Without further ado, here are the best Caribbean restaurants to try right now in Los Angeles. In this update, Eater adds Jamaican-Chinese restaurant ABL Hollywood and Silver Lake’s Afro-Caribbean spot, Amiguita. Trinistyle Cuisine was removed this round.
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All the New Restaurant Openings to Know in Los Angeles
General Tso’s chicken. | Stan Lee Los Angeles is no stranger to restaurant openings, whether debuts in iconic buildings helmed by big-name chefs, humble neighborhood haunts, or pop-ups leaping into permanent spaces. The city’s dining scene continues to grow even as operators face stunning challenges related to ongoing impacts from the 2020 coronavirus pandemic, the 2023 Hollywood labor strikes, the 2025 Palisades and Eaton fires, and systemic slowdowns affecting the entire global food supply. This roundup features a running list of all the latest openings you should know about across the Southland. For Eater editors’ curation of the best new restaurants in Los Angeles, check out the heatmap, and for a guide to the best restaurants in the city, look to the Eater 38.
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