Michelin-starred restaurants in Los Angeles

Kato

Asian · Arts District / Row DTLA · $$$$

Chef Jonathan Yao

Chef Jon Yao cooks the Taiwanese flavors of his childhood in a seafood-focused tasting menu, drawing on family recipes and San Gabriel Valley meals. It opens with pinpán, cold bites inspired by banquet Lazy Susans. The Row DTLA room has concrete, high ceilings and an open kitchen, and the bar offers a shorter tasting menu.

4.5·432 Google reviews

Corridor 109

Asian Contemporary · Melrose Hill · $$$$

Chef Brian Baik

Chef Brian Baik's seafood-focused chef's counter in Melrose Hill grew from a pop-up into a permanent home. The 11-course tasting menu leans on ingredients sourced mainly from Japan, balancing bold and subtle flavors. Look for the katsuo with pesto spaghetti, and enter through Bar 109.

4.9·26 Google reviews

KOJIMA

Japanese · Sawtelle · $$$$

Chef Hayato Kojima

Chef Hayato Kojima, who ran an izakaya in Tokyo for a decade, cooks a kappo-style omakase at an eight-seat counter above a Sawtelle mini mall. There's no set menu, so a dozen or so courses follow the day's ingredients, including charcoal skewers and fish from Toyosu Market.

4.9·55 Google reviews

Lielle

Californian · Pico-Robertson · $$$$

Chef Marcus Jernmark

Swedish chef Marcus Jernmark, formerly of Frantzén, Aquavit and Per Se, cooks a market-led four-course prix fixe that changes every five weeks. Expect dishes like kombujime-cured fish and squab with hazelnut miso, served in a cozy, dressed-down room with lively music.

4.6·64 Google reviews

Miura

Beverly Hills · $$$$

Chef Derek Wilcox, who apprenticed seven years at Kyoto's Kikunoi, leads this intimate Edomae sushi counter in the former Urasawa space on Rodeo Drive. The omakase is an 18-course tasting menu rooted in sushi and kaiseki, with wild seafood flown in from Japan and no farmed fish.

5.0·12 Google reviews

Seline

Santa Monica · $$$$

Chef Dave Beran, the James Beard award-winning chef behind Pasjoli, serves a seasonal tasting menu of 14 to 17 courses at this 38-seat Santa Monica dining room, with the kitchen open to the room. The cooking draws on Southern California produce and surprising pairings like leek with banana and eucalyptus, or coffee with caviar.

4.8·81 Google reviews

Lapaba

$$$

A Koreatown pasta bar from chefs McKenna Lelah and Matthew Kim, both Mozza alumni. Italian classics are folded together with Korean ingredients, served à la carte around a marble bar and open kitchen. Go for the handmade pastas, the kimchi and Spam supplì, and share several plates.

4.1·74 Google reviews

Little Fish Melrose Hill

Melrose Hill · $$$

Anna Sonenshein and Niki Vahle's seafood-focused restaurant grew out of fish-fry pop-ups and an Echo Park original. Lunch centers on the signature fried fish sandwich, with counter seats kept for walk-ins. Dinner turns more composed: seasonal crudo, roast chicken, baked-to-order masa cake, and natural-leaning wines.

4.2·67 Google reviews

Lugya'h

$$

Chef Alfonso Martinez cooks Oaxacan food over live fire at Maydan Market, with tortillas pressed to order on a comal and chorizo grilled over mesquite. Order at the counter, then try the tlayudas, housemade moronga and moles. Lunch, dinner and weekend breakfast menus are served.

4.5·119 Google reviews

LYNX

Chef Joshua Skenes and beverage director Brandyn Tepper run this low-lit, red-washed pizza and cocktail bar in the Arts District. The thin, crackly, puffy-crusted pizzas come from a conveyor oven, alongside inventive $20 cocktails made with a rotovap and centrifuge in full view. Reserve ahead.

4.4·24 Google reviews

Sonoratown

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Downtown LA counter-service taqueria devoted to Sonoran-style Northern Mexican cooking: tacos, quesadillas and chivis, with grilled meats and house salsas. The thin, lard-infused flour tortillas are the draw, hand-stretched and grilled over mesquite. Start with the costilla taco.

4.5·3,415 Google reviews