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Restaurant News in Los Angeles
Weekly LA Restaurant Openings, Closings, and Dining News!
Food Journal Magazine covers Los Angeles restaurant news every week, with openings, closings, chef moves, pop-ups, and menu changes from across the city. From the San Fernando Valley to the Westside, DTLA to the South Bay, we track what's new in LA dining and publish fresh briefs throughout the week. Use this page as your hub for the latest restaurant openings in Los Angeles, plus our monthly new restaurants in Los Angeles roundup and coverage of food events in Los Angeles around the county.
Bad Roman Took Over the Old Palm on Canon Drive, and It Is Not Being Subtle
Quality Branded's first West Coast restaurant opened in the Beverly Hills space that housed The Palm steakhouse for decades. A boar sculpture named Boris guards the door, the burrata is flown from Puglia weekly, and the lobster arrives on fire.
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3 hours ago3 min read
Boneyard Bistro Serves Its Last Meal September 12 After 21 Years on Ventura
Aaron Robins is closing Boneyard Bistro after 21 years in Sherman Oaks. The smokehouse that helped make Ventura Boulevard a destination for chef-driven barbecue serves its final meal Saturday, September 12, 2026. The chef, the history, and what to order before it goes.
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19 hours ago4 min read
The Tuna King's Only U.S. Restaurant Is in Koreatown, and Dinner for Four Runs About $200
Kiyoshi Kimura, the Tokyo restaurateur who has paid record prices for bluefin at the New Year tuna auction eight of the last nine years, chose Chapman Plaza in Koreatown for his first restaurant outside Japan. Tablet ordering, late-night hours and prices well under what the name suggests.
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2 days ago3 min read
The Brothers Sushi in Culver City, and the Dry-Aged Program That Came With It
Mark Okuda's Michelin-listed sushi operation runs a Downtown Culver City room built on dry-aged fish. Omakase runs from about $95 at lunch to $200 at dinner.
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3 days ago2 min read
Skywalker Grill Opens Atop the Lucas Museum September 22, and You Do Not Need a Ticket
Skywalker Grill, the rooftop restaurant atop George Lucas and Mellody Hobson's new museum in Exposition Park, opens September 22 alongside the museum itself. It is open to the public with no gallery ticket required, and reservations are already live on Resy.
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4 days ago3 min read
Mistral Reopened on Ventura Boulevard, and It Cuts Your Bill 25 Percent After Nine
Restaurateur Jonah Freedman took over Mistral, the French bistro that has anchored Ventura Boulevard in Sherman Oaks since 1988, and reopened it with the Wine Spectator list intact, a new sommelier, and a late-night menu that cuts the bill by a quarter.
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4 days ago3 min read
Phil Rosenthal and Nancy Silverton Opened a Diner on Larchmont, and the Wait Is Real
Max and Helen's is the Larchmont diner from Somebody Feed Phil host Phil Rosenthal with Nancy Silverton, built on a nostalgic 1970s menu with all-day breakfast. Weekend waits have run long enough to become part of the story.
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5 days ago2 min read
Utamaro Serves an $80 Omakase From a Michelin-Recognized Chef on Barrington
Hide Takeda of Michelin-recognized Sushi Takeda opened Utamaro in West Los Angeles, running a roughly ten-course omakase for about $80 alongside an izakaya menu where nearly everything costs under $20. Lunch runs Friday and Saturday only.
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6 days ago2 min read
Osigye Serves Deboned Whole-Chicken Hot Pot on the Third Floor of Madang Mall
A mother and her two daughters opened Osigye in April on the third floor of Madang Mall, specializing in dak han mari whole-chicken hot pot with the poultry deboned, in original, spicy or pesto broth. Three hours of free parking.
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7 days ago2 min read
Sushi Nakazawa Finally Opened on Robertson, Four Years After It Was Announced
Daisuke Nakazawa, the apprentice from Jiro Dreams of Sushi, opened the Los Angeles location of his Michelin-starred Sushi Nakazawa on Robertson Boulevard in May. A 16-seat counter, a $295 chef's menu and what the team says is the most extensive sake list in California.
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Sep 23 min read
Miura Took the Old Urasawa Counter on Rodeo Drive and Won a Michelin Star
Derek Wilcox, the first and only Westerner to complete a full seven-year apprenticeship at Kyoto's three-Michelin-starred Kikunoi, opened Miura in the legendary Rodeo Drive space that once held Urasawa. It earned a Michelin star in its first year.
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Sep 22 min read
Truly Pizza Is Bringing Its Micro-Blistered Crust to Abbot Kinney
Truly Pizza, the Dana Point pizzeria built on three-day fermented dough, is opening its third location at 1239 Abbot Kinney in Venice in late 2026. At 4,655 square feet and roughly 130 seats, it will be one of the larger sit-down rooms on the boulevard.
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Sep 13 min read
The Last Canteen Opens a Post-Apocalyptic Bar and Restaurant on Ventura Blvd
The Last Canteen opens on Ventura Blvd in Studio City with a post-apocalyptic bomb shelter theme, mai tais, burgers, tenders, and sarsaparilla on draft.
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Aug 312 min read
It's Potato Built the Inside of a 747 in North Hollywood and Fills It With Baked Potatoes
It's Potato on Sherman Way is an aviation-themed build-your-own baked potato restaurant, with a dining room designed to look like the cabin of a 747, complete with overhead bins, a cockpit and window ports.
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Aug 302 min read
Eyal Shani Brought Malka to Beverly Hills, and It Is the Kosher Room LA Has Not Had
Malka, the certified-kosher restaurant from Miznon chef Eyal Shani, has opened at SIXTY Beverly Hills. It is the brand's first West Coast location, following Tel Aviv, Manhattan, Brooklyn and West Palm Beach.
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Aug 302 min read
The Tasting Kitchen Is Back on Abbot Kinney, Three Years After the Fire
The Tasting Kitchen reopened at 1633 Abbot Kinney on July 16 with founding chef Casey Lane back in the kitchen, a live-fire menu, a dual tasting and a la carte format, and the original olive tree still standing in the dining room.
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Aug 293 min read
Eyal Shani's Malka Is Open in Beverly Hills, With Kosher Cooking Built on Open Fire
Malka, the kosher restaurant Eyal Shani founded in Tel Aviv in 2018, has opened at SIXTY Beverly Hills in partnership with Pagani Projects. It is the brand's first West Coast location, built around open-fire cooking.
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Aug 283 min read
Abbot Kinney Has Quietly Rebuilt Itself. Here Is Where to Eat on It Now
The Tasting Kitchen is back after a fire, Badmaash opened a dining room, Truly Pizza is taking the old Greenleaf space, and the Abbot Kinney Festival returns September 27 after two years off. A guide to eating on the boulevard right now.
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Aug 273 min read
Kulturas Latin Kitchen & Cantina Celebrates Its West LA Grand Opening on Pico
Kulturas Latin Kitchen & Cantina marks its West LA grand opening Friday, August 28 on Pico Blvd with live harp, boleros and free appetizers. Menu, hours, address.
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Aug 274 min read
Mish Is Eric Greenspan's Deli, and It Turns Into a Vinyl Lounge at Night
Eric Greenspan opened Mish on La Brea in June, a modern Jewish delicatessen with wood-fired Montreal-style bagels, hand-carved pastrami and a babka program from Dara Yu. It runs 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily, then closes and becomes an event space with an upstairs vinyl lounge.
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Aug 263 min read
Gable Opens at the Hollywood Roosevelt With a Live-Fire Hearth and a Bulgogi Pizza
Gable opened August 18 in the Hollywood Roosevelt's ground-floor dining room, an 82-seat restaurant built around a live-fire hearth from culinary director Chris Flint, formerly of Maude and Eleven Madison Park.
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Aug 253 min read
CASA LEO Brings Jose Andres Group Pedigree and Spanish Cocas to Los Feliz
Chef Joshua Whigham's Los Feliz Spanish restaurant is in the MICHELIN Guide, with acorn-fed jamon iberico, Iberian cocas, rabo de toro and a monthly Sunday paella.
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Aug 242 min read
Brick Lane Brings Wood-Fired Modern Indian to a 1920s Arts District Warehouse
Chef Sanjay Rawat opened Brick Lane in May at 1331 E. 6th Street, a modern Indian restaurant built on a wood-fired grill and tandoor inside a renovated 1920s warehouse, with a wine list from Kathryn Coker and Indian single malts behind the bar.
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Aug 232 min read
Alta Adams Reopened With a New Menu and Keith Corbin as Sole Owner
Keith Corbin closed Alta Adams for several months at the start of the year and reopened it in June with refreshed interiors and a reworked menu, now as sole owner of the West Adams restaurant he opened in 2018.
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Aug 222 min read
The Los Angeles Restaurants That Closed This Summer, and What They Left Behind
Connie and Ted's, Crustacean, Cactus Taqueria's Hollywood original and Wolfgang Puck's Merois all served their last meals in 2026. A look at what closed, when, and which locations are still open.
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Aug 223 min read
Marmalade Cafe Has Closed at The Commons at Calabasas After 28 Years
Marmalade Cafe served its last meal at The Commons at Calabasas on Sunday, August 2, ending a 28-year run. The Westlake Village, Malibu, Sherman Oaks and El Segundo locations remain open.
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Aug 211 min read
Where to Eat Live-Fire Food in Los Angeles Right Now
Michelin named char, smoke and flame a defining trend of 2026, and Los Angeles has the rooms to back it up. A guide to the hearths, tandoors, binchotan grills and wood ovens worth planning a night around.
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Aug 213 min read
Ueki Is a 14-Seat Omakase Counter Hidden Inside Blue Ribbon Sushi in the Palisades
Blue Ribbon Sushi returned to Palisades Village with something it did not have before: Ueki, a 14-seat omakase counter tucked behind a handcrafted shibori curtain, with a hinoki wood counter and a cedar-clad room.
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Aug 202 min read
The h.wood Group Traded Velvet Ropes for a Neighborhood Grill in the Palisades
Alphabet Bar and Grill opened August 15 at Palisades Village, the h.wood Group's first neighborhood restaurant, with James Beard Award-winning chef Timothy Hollingsworth running a menu built on rotisserie chicken and the farmers market next door.
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Aug 203 min read
Mitsi Pairs a Late-Night Sushi Counter With a 110-Seat Cocktail Bar in Chinatown
Mitsi opened in April at the edge of Chinatown and Mission Junction, pairing a 110-seat cocktail bar from Mumford and Sons musician Ben Lovett with a late-night sushi counter from chef Jon Kim. The bar runs to 1 a.m., the kitchen closes at 11.
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Aug 184 min read
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