Restaurants
Vibrato
2930 Beverly Glen Cir., Los Angeles, CA, 90077
310-474-9400
This jazz club boasts Herb Alpert as a founder. A quartet starts playing at 6:30, and the food hits all the right notes…
Website: http://vibratogrilljazz.com
Neighborhood: Bel-Air, Los Angeles
Category: American, Restaurants
Viet Noodle Bar
3133 Glendale Blvd., Los Angeles, CA, 90039
323-906-1575
Where other neo-Vietnamese restaurants dumb down the traditional, this swank little joint riffs, adding complexity to some standards while nudging the emphasis in others…
Website: http://vietnoodlebar.com
Neighborhood: Atwater Village, Los Angeles, Silver Lake
Category: Restaurants, Vietnamese
Vietnam Restaurant
340 W. Las Tunas Dr., Los Angeles, CA, 91776
626-281-5577
The generically named Vietnam Restaurant in San Gabriel is equal to anything the O.C. has to offer…
Neighborhood: Los Angeles, San Gabriel
Category: Restaurants, Vietnamese
Villa Piacere
22160 Ventura Blvd., Los Angeles, CA, 91364
818-704-1185
This elegant hideout with a romantic garden specializes in California cuisine, including seared ahi, duck, pastas, giant salads…
Website: http://villapiacere.com
Neighborhood: Los Angeles, Woodland Hills
Category: Californian, Restaurants
Villains Tavern
1356 Palmetto Street, Los Angeles, CA, 90013
(213) 613-0766
Big top-striped curtains, colored-glass medicine bottles, gothic wooden arches, and pew seating give a carny-church quality to Villains Tavern. Bluesy-folksy bands take the stage on the patio every night, and seasonal drinks are strong and come by the mason jar.
Website: https://villainstavern.com
Neighborhood: Downtown
Category: Arts & Entertainment, Bars
Vincenti Ristorante
11930 San Vicente Blvd., Los Angeles, CA, 90049
310-207-0127
Nicola Mastronardi’s cooking is intelligently robust. He muscles up butter lettuce with warm polenta croutons or bastes a spit-roasted pork shoulder as it slowly turns.
Website: http://vincentiristorante.com
Neighborhood: Brentwood, Los Angeles
Category: Italian, Restaurants
Vinotéque
7469 Melrose Ave, Los Angeles, CA, 90046
310-860-6060
It was a hit in Culver City, and now Vinotéque has reopened on a food-centric stretch of Melrose Avenue…
Website: http://vinotequela.com
Neighborhood: Hollywood, Los Angeles
Category: Restaurants, Small Plates
Vitello’s
4349 Tujunga Ave., Los Angeles, CA, 91604
818-769-0905
It’s a restaurant; it’s a social club; it’s got a life-size model of Vito Corleone…
Website: http://vitellosrestaurant.com
Neighborhood: Los Angeles, Studio City
Category: Italian, Restaurants
Vito’s Pizza
846 N. La Cienega Blvd., Beverly Grove, CA
310-652-6859
Sometimes a whole pie is too much to manage, ya know what we’re sayin’?
Website: http://vitopizza.com
Neighborhood: Beverly Grove
Category: Best of LA, Best of LA 2014: Eat, Best of LA: 2014, Best of LA: Eat, Pizza, Restaurants
Wa Sushi & Bistro
1106 N. La Cienega Blvd., Ste. 201, Los Angeles, CA, 90069
310-854-7285
Neighborhood: Los Angeles, West Hollywood
Category: Restaurants, Sushi
Wabi Sabi
1635 Abbot Kinney Blvd., Los Angeles, CA, 90291
310-396-8857
This is a neighborhood restaurant with an extensive sushi menu…
Neighborhood: Los Angeles, Venice
Category: Japanese, Restaurants
Wako Donkasu
2904 West Olympic Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA, 90006
(213) 387-9256
Little wire stands are placed beneath panko-crusted cutlets to drain any specks of grease, but they are for form’s sake only. There isn’t any oiliness.
Neighborhood: Westlake
Category: Japanese, Restaurants
Wako Donkasu
3377 Wilshire Blvd., Ste. 112, Los Angeles, CA, 90010
213-381-9256
Wako’s specialty is shaggy-coated, deep-fried everything: pork cutlets, chicken, shrimp, fish, beef…
Neighborhood: Koreatown, Los Angeles
Category: Korean, Restaurants
Warszawa
1414 Lincoln Blvd., Los Angeles, CA, 90401
310-393-8831
The boxy facade suggests a backcountry bar, but inside is a romantic jumble of charm…
Website: http://warszawarestaurant.com
Neighborhood: Los Angeles, Santa Monica
Category: Polish, Restaurants
Water Grill
544 S. Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, 90071
(213) 891-0900
The tablecloths are gone, beer comes by the pitcher, and nautical bric-a-brac adorns the walls at the completely revamped Water Grill…
Website: http://www.watergrill.com/santamonica/
Neighborhood: Santa Monica
Category: Restaurants, Seafood
Water Grill
1401 Ocean Ave., Los Angeles, CA, 90401
310-394-5669
This is one of the best formal fish houses on the Westside…
Website: http://oceanave.com
Neighborhood: Los Angeles, Santa Monica
Category: American, Restaurants, Seafood
Water Grill
544 S. Grand Ave., Los Angeles, CA, 90071
213-891-0900
The seafood platter with a lip of iced Wellfleets, the aproned garçon pouring sauvignon blanc.
Website: http://watergrill.com
Neighborhood: Downtown, Los Angeles
Category: Restaurants, Seafood
