25 great wine bars and wine restaurants in Los Angeles 2025
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Phone: +1 (213) 784-7930
Address: 1360 Allison Avenue, Los Angeles
It took a couple of years for LA to get hip to the delectable wonders of Courney Kaplan and Charles Namba’s groundbreaking LA neo-izakaya, Tsubaki (another Red Star venue), but as soon as the word got out, reservations became a scarce and highly-prized commodity. Thankfully, a solution was right around the corner, both literally and figuratively. When a small space became available just adjacent to Tsubaki, Kaplan and Namba leapt into action, and two years later, in 2019, Ototo was born. Conceived as the hipper, more casual sibling to their grown-up restaurant next door, it staked an immedia...
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Phone: +1 (213) 900-4900
Address: 1356 Allison Avenue, Los Angeles
Partners in both business and life, Charles Namba and Courtney Kaplan opened Tsubaki in 2017 with the modest ambition of creating a small, neighbourhood restaurant based on their shared vision of a modern izakaya. Each brought their own sensibilities to the table. Charles was born in LA to Japanese-American parents and, though he grew up eating his mother’s traditional Japanese cooking, his culinary path veered in a decidedly European direction, with several formative years spent in resolutely French kitchens with chefs like David Waltuck (at Chanterelle) and and Thomas Keller (at Bouchon). Co...
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Phone: +1 (323) 460-4170
Address: 5955 Melrose Avenue, Los Angeles
Los Angeles is a city famously short on truly fancy, dress-up-and-splurge fine dining restaurants, though whenever such a statement is uttered, it’s generally quickly qualified by something like, “except Providence.” For nearly 20 years, Chef Michael Cimarusti and Co-Owner (and front-of-house wizard) Donato Poto have been among the very few restaurateurs in LA – even, at times, the only ones – executing the type of grown-up fine dining found in other cities across the globe. Providence is a restaurant that exists apart from (perhaps in parallel to?) most if not all the prevailing trends of...
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Address: 3501 Eagle Rock Boulevard, Los Angeles
Chef Brian Dunsmoor opened his eponymous restaurant in 2022, just as the city was emerging from the depths of the Covid pandemic. His intention was simple: to create a comforting, approachable neighbourhood restaurant that could serve as a new stage for what he calls “American heritage cookery,” an iterative evolution of the Southern-rooted food he became known for during a years-long run at West LA’s Hatchet Hall. And when Dunsmoor says “heritage,” he really means it – aside from a single four-burner French top stove used for making stocks and some light sautée work, the kitchen is run entire...
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Phone: +1 (562) 342-6557
Address: 1147 Loma Avenue, Long Beach
Depending on where you find yourself in LA, and what time of day it is, getting to Long Beach can be a breezy 30-ish-minute drive or a brutal, hour-plus slog. Even the worst of Southern California’s notorious traffic is a small price to pay, though, for a visit to Buvons, a wine bar and retail shop tucked away on a quiet stretch of Long Beach’s trendy Zaferia district. The business is the brainchild of Alicia Kemper, a longtime fixture in LA’s wine scene who made the move south in the midst of the city’s pandemic lockdowns, with the intention of setting up a neighbourhood wine shop in an eme...
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Phone: +1 (310) 859-9859
Address: 8700 West 3rd Street, Los Angeles
There isn’t another chef-sommelier partnership anywhere in California that comes close to matching the longevity or successful track record of Suzanne Goin and Caroline Styne. For over 25 years, the two have been an inseparable force on LA’s dining scene, opening game-changing restaurants, writing instant-classic cookbooks, spearheading one of the country’s most effective food-driven charities (Alex Loves Lemonade), managing food and drink at the iconic Hollywood Bowl, and racking up award after award in the process. The duo originally opened a.o.c. in 2002, intending it to be a wine bar and...
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Phone: +1 (323) 510-3093
Address: 4653 Beverly Boulevard, Los Angeles
Chad Colby first popped up on the collective radar of LA’s dining conoscenti with the culinary classes he taught (on pizza-making, whole hog butchery, charcuterie and more) in a small test kitchen wedged between Nancy Silverton’s Mozza2Go storefront and her flagship Osteria Mozza. Eventually, Silverton turned the test kitchen into a real one, made Colby the chef and helped him create a jewel box of an Italian restaurant that in short order became one of the city’s preeminent temples of wood-fired meats. Colby’s kinship with fire became the cornerstone of his own restaurant, Antico, which he...
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Phone: +1 (818) 501-4201
Address: 14704 Ventura Boulevard, Sherman Oaks
For most of its 43-year history, Anajak Thai served as a dependable, straightforward Thai restaurant serving the community of Sherman Oaks, in the San Fernando Valley. That all changed in 2019, when Justin Pichetrungsi, son of the founder-owners, took over the management of the restaurant and began to make some changes. The playlist was modernised (and turned way up), the Pichetrungsi family recipes were retooled using California’s stellar farmer’s market produce, caviar supplements were made available and, most significantly, a proper wine program was created to complement the newfound finess...
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Address: 6903 Melrose Avenue, Los Angeles
For decades, Stir Crazy was just another Hollywood-adjacent coffee house – or, in LA terms, a co-working spot for aspiring screenwriters. It had grown tired over the years and seemed destined for closure until an unlikely trio of young operators took over in 2023, when the original owner decided to retire. The new trio kept both the name and the rough bones of the small space, but updated the worn finishes, made the tiny kitchen more serviceable and jettisoned the coffee and scones in lieu of a produce-driven menu of small plates and one of the city’s best wine programs. This new Stir Crazy...
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Phone: +1 310 643 5853
Address: 8888 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CA 90232
Best Long List of the Year International Open 2025
Juliet opened in early 2023 in the Platform development, a massive mixed-use complex on the eastern side of Culver City. It billed itself as a restaurant inspired by the contemporary dining scene in Paris, which in this case seems to mean more fresh vegetables and raw fish, less béarnaise and duck confit. And whether or not it’s truly reflective of the reality on the streets of Belleville or Le Marais, the food feels both fresh and French. There are fresh oysters, of course, alongside a tartelette of chicken liver mousse, assorted variations of crudo and salad, the obligatory poulet rôti and...
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Phone: +1 (213) 797-5770
Address: 777 South Alameda Street Building 1, Suite 114, Los Angeles
There was a moment, sometime just before 2018, when the hottest ticket in the city was for an $85 tasting menu served by a chef who had just crossed the threshold into his mid-twenties. The restaurant was Kato, the chef was Jon Yao, and the food he was serving at a tiny counter tucked away in a West LA strip mall — anchored in his Taiwanese roots but liberally accented by the kaleidoscope of flavours he experienced growing up in Southern California’s San Gabriel Valley – was the talk of the town. Yao’s refined cooking was identifiably Taiwanese at its core, with artful and precociously soph...
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Phone: (213) 232-4966
Address: 500 Mateo Street, Los Angeles
A lot of people forget that Bavel opened up around the same time as many other hyped and over-anticipated new restaurants. The difference between it and those others… it is now one of (if not the actual) busiest restaurants in the city, and with great reason. Bavel’s format is relatively simple: serve delicious food, in a alluring space, and fill glasses with great drinks.
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Phone: +1 323 522-6106
Address: 1620 Silver Lake Boulevard, Los Angeles
A place, in all honesty, I could spend an entire day at, Botanica is always on top of my list for places to eat breakfast or brunch on the eastside of Los Angeles. The Silverlake space is bright, open, and airy, creating an inviting atmosphere for afternoon meetings, a snack, or most importantly, day drinking. In the evening, the vegetable forward menu sets the stage as a solid date spot and over-performs as a neighborhood restaurant. It is one of LA's healthiest restaurants, but I somehow cannot escape their thick cut bacon after a walk around the reservoir.
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Phone: +1 323 660-4400
Address: 4628 Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles
When Bar Covell opened nearly 15 years ago, on a sleepy stretch of Hollywood Boulevard bordering eternally-hip Los Feliz, most LA wine bars were, with a couple of notable exceptions (looking at you, Lou Amdur!), sad clichés full of bad cheese boards, themed flights and card-reading Enomatic machines. Covell changed all that. It felt raw, intimate and real. Sommeliers from several of the city’s best restaurants pulled shifts behind the bar. There was no list; the day’s selections were scrawled in chalk pencil on reclaimed windows hanging from the ceiling. Candles offered the vast majority of...
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Phone: +1 310 899-6900
Address: 1314 7th Street, Santa Monica
International Sustainable Wine List of the Year, presented by Oddbird 2024
In a city that hasn’t quite adopted the wine bar culture, Esters has been able to resonate not only to the locals of Santa Monica but to all of LA. Whether you’re there to buy a bottle to take home, have a glass at the bar, or taste through a line of a visiting winemaker, Esters over delivers on all accounts. Note the perfect ratio of indoor to outdoor seating, a casual menu that features visiting chefs on certain nights, and a knowledgeable and welcoming staff. This sentiment is universally agreed upon as well, with the LA Times naming it the best wine bar in Southern California in 2017.
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Phone: +1 424 387-8622
Address: 1023 Abbot Kinney Boulevard, Venice
Best Medium-Sized List of the Year International Open 2025
It is truly fitting that ‘felix' is latin for lucky or happy, because that’s what you are when dining at this incredible trattoria. The dining room has a level of energy that is second to none in LA, vibrating around a central glassed-in kitchen where Chef Evan Funke passionately executes his art of pasta making. The dining experience could not be any more straight forward—sit down, order a negroni, and immerse yourself in the best focaccia your mind could conceive. Move on to a bottle of Champagne (Bereche seems to be a staple), then antipasti and pastas, followed with, say a bottle of Radiko...
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Phone: +1 323 334-3369
Address: 412 North Fairfax Avenue, Los Angeles
Just down the street from the original Animal, is the immensely popular all-day hub, Jon and Vinny’s. Known for its straight forward menu of salad, pizza, and pastas, the casual approach, yet utterly delicious food, makes it family friendly and sociable. It manages to be an atmosphere that invites a visit no matter the time of day or day of the week, keeping the dining room full of buzz at seemly every time slot.
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Phone: +1 323 545-4880
Address: 1725 Naud Street, Los Angeles
With restaurants in Canada, Australia, Las Vegas and all over New York City, its perhaps crazy to say this, but David Chang’s Majordomo is definitely his best. Landing in North Chinatown in an area surrounded by warehouses, many worried if the achievements of the other concepts would translate to LA—especially with the recent lack of West Coast success from other New York hospitality groups. But the opening timing of Majordomo could not have been any better with the premier of Ugly Delicious on Netflix, causing his popularity to hit whole new level. The menu, to simply put it, is so freaking...
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Phone: +1 323 466-8812
Address: 6001 Melrose Avenue, Los Angeles
Marino is to Hollywood dining, and even to Los Angeles, as Rao’s is to New York. A family-run spot that to this day feels like your being invited over to someone’s home for dinner. See there’s soul, history, and true hospitality that is cemented into the wall at Marino’s that just can’t be replicated by this generation. When Sal comes out from the kitchen it’s not just to shave truffles over your perfect pasta, but to give you a welcoming hug or help you pick out the perfect bottle of wine for the night. Family-run restaurants like Marino’s are a living testament to why people all over the wo...
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Phone: +1 323 297-0100
Address: 6602 Melrose Avenue, Los Angeles
Osteria Mozza (and its sister restaurants) feel like one of those places that seems to have been a part of Los Angeles forever. More importantly, it would be nearly impossible to find a chef that has done more for this city than Nancy Silverton. Whether she’s behind the Mozzarella bar, baking pizzas, or putting together small plates for one of the many charities she works with, every bite she creates feels so right. The menu appears so simple, but the three or four ingredients listed on a given dish display an unusual combinations that exhibit precision and intention.
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Phone: +1 310 362-6115
Address: 624 South La Brea Avenue, Los Angeles
For the past decade the terms 'farm to table', 'seasonal menu', and 'market vegetables', all have been inappropriately applied or overused to the point that they are simply marketing tools. Some diners have begun to lose hope in the portrayals, but please reconsider for Walter & Margarita Manzke and the celebrated Republique! If you’re wondering what new dishes will hit the menu the upcoming week, simply head down to the weekend farmer's market to see Walter picking out some of the most incredible produce you’ve laid your eyes on, even for California standards.
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Phone: +1 310 393-7050
Address: 1119 Wilshire Boulevard, Santa Monica
From plate to glass, Rustic Canyon is here to truly embody the West Coast lifestyle. Chef/Owner, (not to mention author) Jeremy Fox is back in the kitchen at Rustic Canyon. He's more inspired than ever, creating beautiful new dishes from exceptional farmer's market produce, with his motto ever present: simple ain't easy. As the market is always changing, so is his menu. The culinary menu changes a little each day, so every time you come you can experience something new. The constantly evolving menu is highlighted with dishes such as farmer's cheese gnocchi with peas & green garlic, and petal...
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Phone: +1 310 385-0880
Address: 176 North Canon Drive, Beverly Hills
If you are looking for somewhere special to embrace an occasion for dressing up, celebrate at Spago. The flagship restaurant of internationally-known chef Wolfgang Puck has been a pillar of dining in Los Angeles for several decades. Dishes such house-curedsmoked salmon pizza and Maine lobster salad speak to the palates of Angelinos of a certain time of the past. These dishes have clearly have been the staples to thousands of Beverly Hills power lunches, along with a cold glass of Chardonnay, of course.
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Phone: +1 213 290-6309
Address: 5125 Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles
Tabula Rasa is housed in a dimly lit space where Los Feliz and East Hollywood adjoin, and quite simply brings a lot of fun to the Los Angeles wine scene. The team takes programing to a whole new level with food trucks, pop ups, guest DJ sets, and industry nights rotating just about every night. This continuous energy keeps one coming back regularly to open bottles with friends and experience the array of events. The minuscule kitchen manages to dish out everything from a cubano to an octopus salad to pair with your glass of orange wine or bottle of Champagne.
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Phone: +1 323 954-0300
Address: 7605 Beverly Boulevard, Los Angeles
Terroni was birthed in the early 1990’s from a long history of a family importing business that specialized in the staples of Southern Italy. The menu is accumulation of Italian classics such as Carpaccio di Manzo, Linguine alle Vongole e Bottarga, and Capunti al Ragu’ d’Agnello. The corner restaurant invites you into a timeless space that feels like the ultimate neighborhood spot, that just happens to have a back room filled with thousands of bottles.
