Los Angeles City Guide

Los Angeles Travel Guide

F&W’s guide features spectacular Los Angeles restaurants, craft cocktail bars, beach hotels and the city’s best burger. Plus: delicious recipes from L.A.’s greatest chefs.

Top Picks

Los Angeles Restaurants

Insider Picks
- Animal
- A-Frame
- Gjelina
- Pizzeria Mozza
Splurge
- The Bazaar by José Andrés
- WP24
Classic
- Lucques
- Matsuhisa
Best Value
Ice Cream Spots
- Sweet Rose Creamery
- Coolhaus
Bars
- The Edison
- The Varnish

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Editors’ Pick

Hotel Erwin

Rooms at this hip boutique hotel have balcony views of Venice’s Muscle Beach and come with a free supply of surf wax for boarders looking to take advantage of the location 200 feet from the Pacific. There’s also a rooftop lounge. jdvhotels.com

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Los Angeles Restaurants: Pink’s Hot Dogs — **Pink’s Hot Dogs:** This legendary Hollywood hot dog shack has been in business since 1939, but the menu has evolved with pop culture.

Editor’s Pick — **Pink’s Hot Dogs:** This legendary Hollywood hot dog shack has been in business since 1939, but the menu has evolved with pop culture.

Insider’s Guide

Susan Feniger and Mary Sue Milliken Crave Pupusas, Italian Sandwiches

L.A.-based street food experts Susan Feniger and Mary Sue Milliken sell delicious tacos and “churro tots” from a trailer inspired by their flagship Border Grill. Here, the co-chefs share where they eat street food, shop for artsy gifts and tell friends to stay. Read More

Best New Chef 2012

Bryant Ng

Why He Won: Because he uses his custom-made sate grill, the focal point of his restaurant The Spice Table, to cook outstanding dishes inspired by his Singaporean heritage.

Los Angeles Chef Recipes

Deluxe Lobster and Potato Chip Rolls

Son of a Gun chefs, Jon Shook and Vinny Dotolo, serve potato chips on Tabasco-spiked lobster salad tucked into buttery toasted buns.
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Cornmeal-and-Ricotta Waffles

This recipe is as close to the waffles of chef Michael Mina’s childhood as he could get it. Cornmeal makes the waffles crispy; ricotta keeps them moist.
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Kogi Dogs

When Kogi’s truck first Tweeted its stops, no one had heard of Korean short rib tacos. Now hundreds of people line up for them, and for kimchi hot dogs.
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Fried Shrimp Flatbreads with Spicy Cardamom Sauce

Josef Centeno’s creative fillings, like the fried shrimp here with cardamom-chile sauce and herbed crema, are sensational on any kind of flatbread, or even rolled inside flour tortillas.
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