Events Summer Dine LA 2026: Two Weeks of $15 Menus Across the City For two weeks every summer, Los Angeles makes its best restaurants easy to afford. Dine LA Restaurant Week returns August 14 through August 28, 2026, and it's the simplest excuse you'll get all year to book the table you've been putting off.
Food & Drink Top 5 Michelin-Star Restaurants in Southern California Southern California now holds three of California's eight three-star restaurants, and the gap between a good dinner and one of these has never been wider. Here are five worth planning a month around. Book early. Most of these release tables four to eight weeks out, and weekends go first.
Food & Drink 5 Best Rooftop Venues in Southern California Summer is when these rooms earn their rent. Long sunsets, warm nights, and views that run from the ocean to the mountains.
Food & Drink The Best New Restaurant in Los Angeles Is in a Former Church Hermon's, an American chophouse in a 1903 banquet hall on the edge of Northeast L.A., is doing something almost subversive: it's just very good.
Food & Drink The Best Brunch Patios in Southern California The hard part is picking where to go. Here are nine patios worth the drive, spread from the desert to the coast. For each one, I noted what to order and how to land a good table.
Food & Drink Sit Down. Don't Open the Menu. There Isn't One. Omakase means "I'll leave it to you." The counters across Southern California are worth trusting with that decision.
Food & Drink The Bars You Have to Look For. That's the Whole Point. A short, opinionated tour of Southern California's hidden rooms, the ones behind the bookcase, the kitchen, the unmarked door, the second restaurant.
Food & Drink The Best Meal in Southern California Might Come Through a Window No reservation required. No dress code. Just some of the most extraordinary food in the region, served from the side of a truck by people who mean it.
Pasadena Old Town Pasadena Is Eating Well Right Now A new wave of restaurants is quietly making Colorado Boulevard one of the most interesting dining streets in Southern California. Here's where to pull up a chair.
Food & Drink Southern California Is Having a Moment at the Table The restaurants opening across So Cal right now are the kind that change the conversation. Here's where to make a reservation before everyone else does.
Food & Drink The Table Everyone in Altadena Is Talking About. Some restaurants open quietly and earn their reputation slowly. And then there's Betsy.
Santa Barbara The Table Has Always Been Set in Santa Barbara Santa Barbara doesn't chase trends. It just quietly becomes the place everyone wishes they'd discovered sooner. This year, its dining scene is doing it again.
