Small Plates restaurants in Los Angeles

Father's Office

1018 Montana Ave., Santa Monica, CA 90403

Creator of the most-imitated Los Angeles dish since Nancy Silverton reinvented an obscure Piedmontese dessert called panna cotta, Sang Yoon is the baron of the... More »
Dakota Music Lounge

1026 Wilshire Blvd., Santa Monica, CA 90401

Formerly known as Temple Bar, this joint is back in business with a new name.
Eva Restaurant

7458 Beverly Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90036

Occupying what until recently housed Hatfield's, Eva is the creation of Mark Gold (no relation), a veteran of Joachim Splichal's armies of the night, who dreams of a... More »

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Recent Critic Reviews

Besha Rodell writes for LA Weekly on Allumette

An entree of turnips and brown rice sounds vaguely like something you'd get for lunch at a very austere, vegan yoga retreat. It does not sound like the basis for a dish that's capable of stunning a pair of seasoned restaurant writers. Yet there I was with a fellow food writer, sitting in front of a plate of turnips and brown rice, slightly awestruck. Ten minutes later, we were still talking...
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Patrick Comiskey writes for LA Weekly on Bottle Rock

Like so many trends in Los Angeles, the wine bar scene here seemingly took forever to develop. But in the last decade, it has burst into bloom with energy and creativity. Wine bars have become part of the city's vinous fabric, places to try new wines (or beers), to learn about wine, to nosh and, as often as not, eat a full meal, too. There are wine bar restaurants, wine bar jazz clubs, wine...
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Besha Rodell writes for LA Weekly on Father's Office

You tend to hear two things about Father's Office, Sang Yoon's beer bar and gastropub (some say the original L.A. gastropub): The burger is good and the seating system is bad. Both of these things are true. The burger, with its caramelized onions, Gruyere and Maytag blue cheese, bacon, arugula and tomato compote, is a meaty boom of flavor. The seating system, in which you...
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