Dine and dance

Restaurants that host DJs allow you to binge with guilt-free abandon. The knowledge that you can dance away the calories minutes later will make ordering dessert a no-brainer.

Joseph’s Café

This Hollywood taverna cum rockin’ nightclub gets booties shaking with Greek and Mediterranean fare including tender lamb loin Dijon. Nothing says “Let’s dance” like a hearty serving of salmon roe caviar and warm pita bread.

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* Lamb loin Dijon, $16

1775 N. Ivar Ave.

(323) 462-8697

Tatou Supper Club

Is that a disco ball in your belly or are you just full of spicy garlic shrimp? The menu for this 35,000-square-foot club with VIP booths and a giant dance floor is Asian-fusion and “Hell’s Kitchen” winner Michael Wray was the original executive chef. The idea for Tatou came from former Studio 54 owner Mark Fleischman.

* Spicy garlic shrimp, $13

333 S. Boylston St.

(213) 482-2000

Hush Lounge at Rambutan Thai

Hush gets transcendental on Friday and Saturday nights with ambient electronica and deep house music. This lounge is accessible through a “secret door” next to the Buddha in Silver Lake’s Rambutan Thai. Order small bites such as shrimp and scallop curry dumplings in Hush or nosh on an entrée such as Crying Tiger beef in Rambutan.

* Curry dumplings, $8

2835 W. Sunset Blvd.

(213) 273-8424

e3rd Steakhouse & Lounge

Let your hair down Thursday through Saturday at this swank downtown Arts District meatery. Just try not to let it fall into the Asian pears and honey on your tender pork steak. If you’re too full of sizzling beef to shake your groove thing, you’ll find happiness bobbing your head to hip-hop, house and Top 40 tunes.

* Pork lovers’ steak, $15.95

734 E. 3rd St.

(213) 680-3003

Tengu

Music gets eclectic Wednesdays through Saturdays at Tengu, where patrons bob and sway to whatever the DJ feels like playing. Expect house, dance, Top 40 and hip-hop along with soft-shell crab sushi rolls and lemon-grass grilled Alaskan halibut.

* Alaskan halibut, $25

1541 Ocean Ave.,

Santa Monica,

(310) 587-2222

-- Jessica Gelt