Los Angeles Restaurants

I am a person who likes to eat and knows a fair bit about food. Los Angeles can be a great experience of a really lousy one. For sure, there are a million high style, high concept expensive and good... more

I am a person who likes to eat and knows a fair bit about food. Los Angeles can be a great experience of a really lousy one. For sure, there are a million high style, high concept expensive and good restaurants in LA. The problem is that it's all a little overwrought and over thought. They have to turn those tables over and make a lot of money, so you'll get high quality food, but it will be expensive and it will be like any meal you can have at any big city. I have had MUCH better super fine dining experiences in Walla Walla, Washington. The other thing that's not great is the service. The person serving you will be less interested in the food than their audition or screenplay and will probably be hustling hard to turn over tables. So you need to slow them down. ON THE OTHER HAND - Los Angeles is an absolute treasure for world dining. In LA, you can get the most down home - often super authentic food from around the world serving the various diasporas here. Persian food, Ramen, Korean BBQ, Vietnamese, Cambodian, Chinese - all regions - you name it. South Indian, Caribbean, Mexican, Salvadoran, Peruvian. You could travel to a different country every day and have an incredible, authentic and inexpensive meal. So...yeah there are a lot of hipster restaurants in LA - if you got the cash you'll eat well - but you can do that everywhere. For a real inside view to restaurants - go local and go find some world food.