Everything on the menu has garlic. Very casual. It has a bistro feel. Food is really good. -Tracey Bloom, Top Chef
My favorite stop before or after a flight to load up on Dungeness crab & oysters. A classic west coast oyster bar. -Ana Sortun, Top Chef
Mid-sized concert venue that has the best of the new music coming through. Get tickets when you can. Don’t worry who is playing, it will be great. -Mark Peel, Top Chef
Walk through the door straight to 1948, very cool, and the drinks are fine. -Mark Peel, Top Chef
For the perfect L. A./Palm Springs look this is it. You must be thin and no more than a B+ cup. -Mark Peel, Top Chef
Veronica M has an unassuming storefront. My wife swears they buy just for her. She never leaves without something stunning and at prices that should scare Target. -Mark Peel, Top Chef
Veronica M has an unassuming storefront. My wife swears they buy just for her. She never leaves without something stunning and at prices that should scare Target. -Mark Peel, Top Chef
My favorite place for breakfast. Have the ricotta pancakes or anything with eggs. -Mark Peel, Top Chef
Cedd Moses owns a number of bars downtown. The best one, The Doheny, you can’t go to because it’s private. This one is among of the best of the rest. Ask the bartenders what to drink, they will tell y
Delicious and delicate individual pies. Toughest reservation in the city, it won’t help to use my name. -Mark Peel, Top Chef
Mostly a seafood restaurant that is fast and delicious and has some of the best cocktails in town. -Mark Peel, Top Chef
Cedd Moses owns a number of bars downtown. The best one, The Doheny, you can’t go to because it’s private. This one is among of the best of the rest. -Mark Peel, Top Chef
This should be a restaurant but it’s not. Best beer selection in the world. The burger is made one way and one way only. -Mark Peel, Top Chef
For the perfect L. A./Palm Springs look this is it. You must be thin and no more than a B+ cup. -Mark Peel, Top Chef
Veronica M has an unassuming storefront. My wife swears they buy just for her. She never leaves without something stunning and at prices that should scare Target. -Mark Peel, Top Chef
Veronica M has an unassuming storefront. My wife swears they buy just for her. She never leaves without something stunning and at prices that should scare Target. -Mark Peel, Top Chef
A great bistro with a lively ambiance and terrific menu. The wines are all on the walls and counters so there is immediate service. I could easily go there once a week if I lived in LA. -Rick Moonen,
Quite possibly my favorite restaurant in the country. Humble family recipes from Vietnamese Chef Charles Phan, made exceptional with locally-sourced ingredients, all overlooking the San Francisco Bay.
Judy Rodgers’ iconic San Francisco restaurant has had a significant influence on me as a chef and restaurateur. -Monica Pope, Top Chef
REALLY great food – listed as Italian but really seasonal, local, fresh and extremely well-executed. They have an adorable little pizza place right next door. -Monica Pope, Top Chef
REALLY great food – listed as Italian but really seasonal, local, fresh and extremely well-executed. They have an adorable little pizza place right next door. -Monica Pope, Top Chef
Make a meal of their multitude of small plates to go with their fantastic cocktails-with-attitude. -Monica Pope, Top Chef
An intimate, teeny-tiny restaurant with an equally teeny-tiny menu. -Monica Pope, Top Chef
The setting is serene, the food very sophisticated & delicious, the service of outmost grandeur. Overall it's a very unique experience from a very caring team guided by one of the world's leading chef
This is a place that I’ve gone to for 25 years for late, late night breakfast…like 1am. It's perfect for eggs, sausage, and a cup of coffee and total people watching. -Susan Feniger, Top Chef
Chef Josiah Citron is a master in the kitchen and has earned Top Chef in LA for some years with very well deserved accolades. Josiah shows his professionalism with all his local ingredients, French co
This great old place has tons of character and great dirty martinis. We always meet friends here for a bite! Totally a neighborhood hang. -Susan Feniger, Top Chef
