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5706 Santa Monica Blvd (Wilton Pl), Los Angeles, CA
Restaurante Coreano · 28 dicas e avaliações
Amber: This tiny James Beard-nominated restaurant, hidden in a strip mall in East Hollywood, would be voted least likely to succeed on looks alone. Go anyway. Just call ahead to confirm they're open.
Restaurante Italiano · Downtown Los Angeles · 249 dicas e avaliações
Amber: Since its opening in 2012, Bestia's sort of become the definitive LA restaurant. It's no surprise it's one of the few tough reservations in the city.
Amber: The lush environs make for an ideal celebrity spotting restaurant while everything from quality cocktails and comfort fare stand out on the menu.
11925 Santa Monica Blvd (Brockton), Los Angeles, CA
Restaurante Asiático · Westgate · 8 dicas e avaliações
Amber: Humble strip mall restaurant serving inventive Taiwanese and Japanese cuisine. Sure, there are no backs on the chairs, but the price of the menu hovers around $50 and offers up to eight courses.
Amber: While the cocktails are fantastic, the real draw for diners is the spicy Thai-Chinese cooking coming from Crying Tiger, which you can enjoy inside or grab and go from the window outside.
Amber: everything from molecular gastronomy-utilizing amuse bouches to classic cocktails that can be enjoyed alongside anything-but-ordinary bar snacks
370 N LA Cienega Blvd (at Oakwood Ave), Los Angeles, CA
Bar de Coquetéis · Mid-City West · 83 dicas e avaliações
Amber: While difficult to find (just head to the Largo, then spot the neon sign for an old psychic parlor), guests feel instantly at home inside the dim-lit spot for mind-blowing mixology.
Bar Escondido · Wilshire Center - Koreatown · 15 dicas e avaliações
Amber: Inside a room just large enough to seat 27, the menu tackles a new theme every few months. Also introduced omakase cocktails, allowing imbibers to experience a two-cocktail lineup catered to tastes.
Amber: 1886 isn't just the best cocktail bar in Pasadena—it's one of the best in all of L.A. The 21-long menu changes each season and thrives on originality
7465 Melrose Ave (Btwn Vista & Gardner), Los Angeles, CA
Bar de Coquetéis · Mid-City West · 45 dicas e avaliações
Amber: Some of the best drinks in town. What the nine-option menu lacks in quantity, it makes up for in craftsmanship. Strong, sophisticated, shrewdly balanced and accessibly priced swills ($6-$14)
12477 W Washington Blvd (at Wasatch Ave.), Los Angeles, CA
Restaurante Americano · West Los Angeles · 51 dicas e avaliações
Amber: Happy Hour is in swing every day 5-7pm, w cocktails under $10 and glasses of wine for $6. Be sure to stop by for Burger R&D Nights on Sundays: a burger, fries and a beer for $17
Bar de Coquetéis · Downtown Los Angeles · 44 dicas e avaliações
Amber: The Infanté ($12): tequila with lemon, almond, nutmeg and rosewater. Steamed buns ($10), made w pork belly, cucumber pickle and hoisin. Intentionally nondescript exterior, spacious patio out back
Bar Escondido · Fashion District · 124 dicas e avaliações
Amber: Classic craft cocktail aficionado Sasha Petraske launched one of Los Angeles' first sophisticated bars, now considered the godfather of L.A.'s craft cocktail movement.
Bar de Coquetéis · Highland Park · 6 dicas e avaliações
Amber: Stop right there if you are getting even the teeniest inclination that this is a speakeasy; instead, the twinkle-lit courtyard and homey interior combo conveys a downright neighborly feel.