Food Scene Los Angeles
Beneath the Los Angeles sunshine, the city’s dining scene in 2025 feels less like a restaurant roster and more like a constantly evolving tasting menu, where every neighborhood gets its own course. Listeners strolling into Corridor 109 in Melrose Hill find chef Brian Baik, formerly of Eleven Madison Park, quietly turning pristine seafood and market produce into minimalist, high‑impact plates that taste like LA’s love letter to the Pacific, wrapped in a speakeasy vibe behind Bar 109, as described by Wallpaper’s recent guide to new Los Angeles restaurants.
On the Sunset Strip, Galerie channels art‑world glamour into its menu, while over in Brentwood, The Wilke’s updates the classic neighborhood brasserie model with polished comfort cooking and a see‑and‑be‑seen bar, according to Wallpaper’s December 2025 openings roundup. Century City, once an office‑park afterthought, is now a dining destination where Casa Dani by chef Dani García and Katsuya by chef Katsuya Uechi share one expansive, design‑forward space, pairing saffron‑stained seafood paella and Ibérico ham croquetas with toro tartare and A5 wagyu tataki; Wallpaper notes the complex can seat around 400, proof that LA can do scale without sacrificing finesse.
Innovation here rarely comes without playfulness. The Infatuation’s list of LA’s best new restaurants of 2025 spotlights spots like Somni, where chef Aitor Zabala resurrects his two‑Michelin‑starred, Catalan‑inspired tasting menu in an intimate West Hollywood hideaway, and Baby Bistro in Echo Park, which turns a bungalow into a candlelit, neighborhood‑cool dining room fuelled by buttery sauces and crisp natural wine. At 88 Club in Beverly Hills, Top Chef winner Mei Lin folds the Chinese flavors she grew up with into a sleek fine‑dining format that feels both deeply personal and thoroughly modern, according to Wallpaper’s May 2025 coverage.
LA’s culinary personality still rests on its pantry: Santa Monica Farmers Market produce, Channel Islands sea urchin, and Baja‑adjacent seafood inform everything from the seafood towers at Cento Raw Bar in West Adams to the coastal Mexican tacos at La Nena Cantina in Hollywood, where lobster and chicken mole share menu space with molcajete‑ground, tableside guacamole, as detailed by Wallpaper. Colombian and Mexican influences mix at Café Tondo in Chinatown, while Oaxacan and Afro‑Mexican Guerrerense flavors surface at Lugya’h and Maléna inside David Chang’s Super Peach food‑hall‑style project in Century City, reported by Wallpaper, underscoring how immigrant traditions drive the city’s most exciting cooking.
What makes Los Angeles singular is this frictionless blend of global technique, local harvests, and casual attitude: a city where a two‑star tasting menu, a bagel pop‑up from The Infatuation’s hit list, and a taco counter shaped by generations of migration all feel like equally essential stops for anyone who cares where food is going next..
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