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These are the 101 best restaurants in Los Angeles

Restaurant critic Bill Addison and columnist Jenn Harris rank the 101 best restaurants in Los Angeles.

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LOS ANGELES -- MARCH 24, 2025: Ari Kolender in the walk in with a Halibut at Queen Street Raw Bar & Grill on Tuesday, March 24, 2025. (Yasara Gunawardena / For The Times)

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101 Best Tacos

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These are the 101 best tacos in Los Angeles

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Restaurant critic Bill Addison’s list of best tacos in L.A.

Los Angeles, CA - July 14: A plate of tacos is displayed from at the Industrial Downtown Night Market on Sunday, July 14, 2024 in Los Angeles, CA. (Dania Maxwell / Los Angeles Times)

How L.A. reached peak taco

Scenes and tacos at Evil Cooks, photographed for the 101 Best Tacos 2024 on Friday, July 12th, 2024 in Los Angeles, CA. (Andrea D'Agosto / For The Times)

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Behind the scenes of the Food team devouring tons of tacos.

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An Arts District hub redefines the bistro for Los Angeles
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L.A.’s most polarizing restaurant returns. Is its outlandishness worth the splurge?
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Our L.A. Guides

Scenes and tacos at Bandito Taqueria, photographed for the 101 Best Tacos on Tuesday, July 16th, 2024 in Santa Ana, CA. (Andrea D'Agosto / For The Times)

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LOS ANGELES, CA - OCTOBER 4, 2022: Burrito 2.0 with Grilled Steak at Sonoratown in Los Angeles. (Ron De Angelis / For The Times)

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The signature flatbread from Zhengyalov Hatz.

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Customers order at the blue front counter of whimsical Korean cafe Gong Gan in Silver Lake.

14 nouveau L.A. cafes for a chic coffee or matcha break

LOS ANGELES, CA - OCTOBER 01: A plate of zaru soba noodles with yuzu and matcha salt and traditional tsuyu dipping sauce with kakiage - shrimp and mixed vegetable fritter at Sobar in Los Angeles, CA on Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2024. (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times)

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LONG BEACH, CA - OCTOBER 30, 2024: Family Mashawi Feast at Ammatoli in Long Beach with 6 kebabs and grilled veggies. Served with vermicelli rice, two sides, and one large salad (fattoush, greek, tabbouleh) (Ron De Angelis / For The Times)

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14 unique martinis redefining the classic cocktail in L.A.

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A selection of sweet and savory pies from Crustees, a family-owned bakery in View Park-Windsor Hills, including key lime pie, peach and apple cobbler and a curry chicken pot pie. (Rebecca Peloquin / For The Times)

10 Black-owned dessert spots in L.A. for a little something sweet

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Coffee City

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19 cafes that make L.A. a world-class coffee destination

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INGLEWOOD , CA - FEBRUARY 14: From Left - Shanita Nicholas and Amanda-Jane Thomas owners of Sip & Sonder coffee shop on Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2023 in Inglewood , CA. (Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times)

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Pasadena's Mandarin Coffee Stand specializes in China-grown coffee beans and tea-infused lattes.

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The Kitchen

Chef That! Pickley Cheesy Greens!

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L.A. Dreams of Sushi

This South Bay sushi shop has been serving the same six items for decades — and wants to keep it that way

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Should we be eating bluefin tuna?

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SHERMAN OAKS, CA - APRIL 7, 2023 - Portrait of Liwei Liao, the founder of The Joint Tea/Seafood market, posing behind display counter, with a Dry aging Chamber on the right, April 7, 2023, Sherman Oaks, CA. (Ricardo DeAratanha / Los Angeles Times)

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TORRANCE, CA - APRIL 18: Seiwa Premium Nigiri from chef Shin Nagata at Seiwa Market on Tuesday, April 18, 2023 in Torrance, CA. (Mariah Tauger / Los Angeles Times)

Supermarket sushi you’ll actually want to eat

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Grab quick, affordable sushi at 11 of the best hand roll bars in L.A.

SAN GABRIEL, CA - APRIL 12, 2023 - The best California Roll at Yama Seafood, San Gabriel, CA, on Thursday, April 12, 2023. (Ricardo DeAratanha / Los Angeles Times)

The ultimate California roll lives on at this SGV fish market. (Fights at the sushi case prove it.)

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Morihiro resturant in Atwater Village, California.

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Gizzard shad / kohada nigiri, photographed at Morihiro in Los Angeles

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Cooking

LOS ANGELES, CA -- APRIL 1, 2025: Lemon Lavender Cookies from Nicole Rucker's new cookbook "Fat & Flour," at Fat & Flour in Mar Vista, California on Wednesday, April 2, 2025. (Christine Dzilenski / For The Times)

Fat + Flour’s Vegan Lemon Lavender Cookies

Some of Nicole Rucker’s bestselling cookies at Fat + Flour are vegan. Here’s how to make her light, citrusy, plant-based lemon-and-lavender cookies.

Brown Butter Banana Cookies from the "Sift" cookbook by Nicola Lamb. the credit is a doozy: "Sift" Copyright © 2024 by Nicola Lamb. Photographs copyright © 2024 by Sam A Harris. Illustrations copyright © 2024 by Nueker. Published in the United States by Clarkson Potter/ Publishers, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York.

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Los Angeles Times Food Videos

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, Feb. 3, 2022: A simple guacamole recipe by Ben Mims, photographed on Thursday, February 3, 2022, at Proplink Studios in the Arts District in Downtown Los Angeles. (Silvia Razgova / For The Times, Prop and Food Styling / Jennifer Sacks)

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