What is the potato dish at Hermon’s?

The Loaded Potato Fritters, $16. Thin layers of potato fried crisp around a cream filling and topped with a dome of shaved parmesan, finished with cream cheese and bacon. The Infatuation calls it the appetizer to get and says it tastes like the best bite of a loaded baked potato in every bite.

What did The Infatuation rate Hermon’s?

8.9 out of 10, in a review by Brant Cox published March 9, 2026. The fritter also appears in the publication’s guide to the greatest potato dishes in LA and in its national potato roundup.

Where is Hermon’s and what are the hours?

5800 Monterey Rd, Los Angeles, CA 90042, in the Hermon neighborhood of Northeast Los Angeles across the 110 from Highland Park. Open 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. daily. Phone (213) 559-0924.

Hermon’s Potato Fritter Named One of LA’s Greatest Potato Dishes

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The loaded potato fritter at Hermon’s has made The Infatuation’s list of the greatest potato dishes in Los Angeles. It also made the national one.

Both lists are part of Potato Week, the week-long celebration The Infatuation is running to spotlight the best potato cooking in the country. Hermon’s is one of 15 Los Angeles entries, and the fritter turns up again in the publication’s roundup of the best potato dishes in America.

Hermon’s sits at 5800 Monterey Road in Hermon, a pocket of roughly 3,500 residents in Northeast Los Angeles. The Infatuation files the restaurant under Highland Park, which sits across the 110 freeway. It opened on December 3, 2025, which makes it one of the newest names on either list.

The Fritter, As The Infatuation Describes It

Brant Cox, the publication’s editorial lead in Los Angeles, gave Hermon’s an 8.9 in his March 9, 2026 review, landing it in the band The Infatuation describes as approaching excellence. He calls the fritter the appetizer to get.

His description is a cream-filled potato fritter under what he labels a Matterhorn dome of shaved parmesan. “It tastes like the best bite of a loaded baked potato, in every bite,” he wrote, warning that anyone who skips it will spend the rest of the night watching it get delivered to every other table in the room.

LAist reported the loaded potato fritters at $16, topped with cream cheese, bacon and parmesan. One Google reviewer calls the dish a potato pavé served with a fluffy cheese cloud, which gets at the method: potato sliced thin, stacked into layers, pressed, then fried so the edges shatter while the middle stays soft.

What Kind Of Room It Is

Cox’s shorthand for Hermon’s is “Hipster Houston’s,” and he means it as a compliment. He traces the restaurant’s DNA to Hillstone, the upscale chain known for chilled glasses, deep booths and staff training manuals he compares to rocket blueprints.

The dining room was a church event hall in a prior life. A big square bar dominates the middle of it, and the booths along the edges are built for four. Cox describes the effect as being whisked into a gin-soaked holiday party that runs every night of the week.

He closes the review this way: “A room that no one wants to leave, a menu of greatest hits done right, and a downright infectious energy. If that’s not a blueprint for a restaurant with staying power, we don’t know what is.”

The People Behind It

Hermon’s comes from Last Word Hospitality, the group Holly Fox and Adam Weisblatt founded in 2014, and shares a family with Found Oyster and Rasarumah. Fox spent about five years working to secure the building. Chef and partner DK Kolender, who has cooked at Tartine and Dudley’s Market, runs the New American bar and grill menu.

The name was not an accident. Hermon was founded in 1903 by a Free Methodist Church group and named for the biblical Mount Hermon, and the neighborhood council took note. “The smartest thing you’ve done is name it Hermon,” the council’s president told LAist, adding that Fox “saw a community” and builds “a reflection of who they are.”

What Else To Order

Two Sheet Vongole, $36. Cox’s pick for the most unique dish on the menu and also the best. A cheesy white sauce lasagna crossed with a thin-crust clam pizza, with blistered pasta edges he compares to a perfectly toasted Pop Tart.
Whole Grilled Branzino. Roasted in the charcoal oven you can see from the dining room, dressed with garlic sauce and roasted tomatoes. He calls it a must-order.
Fried Coconut Tiger Prawns. Coconut-crusted with sweet chili sauce, which he rates the best version of the dish he has had.
Ode To Chez Cheeseburger, $24, or $18 before 6 p.m. Chuck patty, creamy onion sauce, bordelaise onions and a thin spread of dijon, with toasted peppercorns worked into each bite.
Grilled Snapped Peas. From the Salad & Veggies section, with fresh citrus, herbs and a spicy muhammara full of chunky walnuts.
Lemon Baked Alaska. Torched meringue over a lemon tart. Cox wishes the ratio ran closer to even, and orders it anyway.

Getting A Table

Reservations are released two weeks ahead at 10 a.m. through OpenTable. The 18-seat bar is held for walk-ins, though Cox suggests arriving right before the 5 p.m. open to be sure of a seat. The bar is also where the grilled branzino collars and the $9 “Tiny ‘Tinis” live.

The Rest Of The LA Potato List

The guide runs 15 dishes deep across the county. A sample of the company Hermon’s is keeping:

Oy Bar, Studio City. The Joutine, crispy potato chunks with gravy, cheese curds, pickles, green onions and wagyu brisket.
Sqirl, Virgil Village. The Latke Tot, a hash brown roughly eight inches long, offered classic, smoked or with beet-cured lox.
Porto’s Bakery, Burbank. Potato balls with spiced beef picadillo at the center and a fried breadcrumb crust.
Lawry’s The Prime Rib, Beverly Hills. A baked Idaho potato delivered with a ceremonial certification card.
Agnes Restaurant & Cheesery, Pasadena. Loaded baked potato dumplings with bacon lardons, crème fraîche and aged white cheddar.
Kismet Rotisserie, Culver City. Schmaltz potatoes roasted in chicken drippings with roasted garlic.

The full guide, with all 15, is at The Greatest Potato Dishes In LA.

If You Go

Hermon’s, 5800 Monterey Road, Los Angeles, CA 90042
Hours: 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. daily
Phone: (213) 559-0924
Ratings: 8.9 from The Infatuation, 4.4 on 133 Google reviews as of October 16, 2026

Hermon’s own website was not reachable when this piece was filed, so the hours above come from the restaurant’s Google Business Profile rather than the house. The Infatuation lists the open at 5 p.m., which matches. Call ahead if you are planning around the kitchen’s last seating.

Sourcing

Potato Week and the Los Angeles selections were shared with Food Journal Magazine by Frances Cave, account executive at FleishmanHillard, on behalf of The Infatuation. The rating, dish descriptions, quotes and reservation details come from Brant Cox’s review of Hermon’s, published by The Infatuation on March 9, 2026, and from the guide The Greatest Potato Dishes In LA, published October 8, 2026 and credited to Brant Cox, Cathy Park, Sylvio Martins, Andrew Ryce and Garrett Snyder. Opening date, ownership, chef background and the $16 fritter price come from LAist’s reporting. Address, hours, phone and Google rating come from Google Business Profile, checked October 16, 2026.