Jonathan Gold 101
Patina Restaurant is one of Jonathan Gold 101.

1. Patina Restaurant

141 S Grand Ave, Los Ángeles, CA
Restaurante francés · Bunker Hill · 24 tips y reseñas

Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles Times: The thick wine list at Patina is rich in hidden treasures if you are willing to consider Corbières or Slovenian Pinot Gris instead of Napa Chardonnay. Leer más.

Mo-chica is one of Jonathan Gold 101.

2. Mo-chica

514 W 7th St (at Grand Ave), Los Ángeles, CA
Restaurante peruano · Financial District · 84 tips y reseñas

Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles Times: If you want a pisco sour, you're in the right place: The foamy, tart, lightly bitter version of the Peruvian national cocktail flows like water. Leer más.

Comme Ça is one of Jonathan Gold 101.

3. Comme Ça

8479 Melrose Ave (at La Cienega Blvd), West Hollywood, CA
Restaurante francés · 61 tips y reseñas

Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles Times: Comme Ça is more or less a classic brasserie, with plateaux of chilled seafood, escargots persillade & sautéed skate Grenoblois, except that you can also get a nicely turned Aviation No. 1. Leer más.

The Apple Pan is one of Jonathan Gold 101.

4. The Apple Pan

8.7
10801 W Pico Blvd (at Glendon Ave), Los Ángeles, CA
Hamburguesería · Westside · 333 tips y reseñas

Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles Times: One of L.A.'s greatest culinary legacies is the California lunchroom burger, the multi-layered composition of iceberg lettuce, pickles and slightly underripe tomatoes. Leer más.

Border Grill Santa Monica is one of Jonathan Gold 101.

5. Border Grill Santa Monica

1445 4th St (at Broadway), Santa Mónica, CA
Restaurante mexicano · Downtown Santa Monica · 80 tips y reseñas

Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles Times: Border Grill is the rare mainstream restaurant whose tacos don't make you yearn for a truck parked by an auto-parts junkyard somewhere in East L.A. Leer más.

Gjelina is one of Jonathan Gold 101.

6. Gjelina

9.2
1429 Abbot Kinney Blvd (at Millwood Ave), Venice, CA
Restaurante de nueva cocina americana · 620 tips y reseñas

Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles Times: Gjelina is cheerful, boozy & known for both its good-looking customers & Travis Lett's decent organic-fetish Italian food. The scene may be as crunchy as the pizza crust, but relax: It's Abbot Kinney. Leer más.

Providence is one of Jonathan Gold 101.

7. Providence

8.7
5955 Melrose Ave, Los Ángeles, CA
Marisquería · Central Hollywood · 94 tips y reseñas

Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles Times: Michael Cimarusti’s raw materials come from all over the world, but his sense of seasonality, his easy multicultural flavor palette and his unfussy use of California produce is solidly L.A. Leer más.

Dae Bok Restaurant is one of Jonathan Gold 101.

8. Dae Bok Restaurant

6.1
2010 James M Wood Blvd, Los Ángeles, CA
Restaurante coreano · Westlake South · 4 tips y reseñas

Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles Times: If you have contemplated a meal of blowfish, your dreams were probably shaped by the popular conception of the notorious fish of death. Here it's the centerpiece of a pleasant evening. Leer más.

Ración is one of Jonathan Gold 101.

9. Ración

119 W Green St (at Delacey Ave), Pasadena, CA
Restaurante español · Old Pasadena · 28 tips y reseñas

Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles Times: A nice place to drop in for Basque-inspired tapas: crisp, gooey chicken croquettes; lamb meatballs glazed with caramelized tomato sauce; tiny squid stuffed with duck sausage; or Spanish cured meats. Leer más.

Mayura Indian Restaurant is one of Jonathan Gold 101.

10. Mayura Indian Restaurant

7.9
10406 Venice Blvd (Motor), Culver City, CA
Restaurante indio · 48 tips y reseñas

Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles Times: Specializes in cooking Kerala: saucer-shaped rice-flour saucers called appam; an obscurely flavored fish curry with undernotes of tamarind and garlic; the peppery, buttery cashew-rice dish ven pongal. Leer más.

Rocio's Mole De Los Dioses is one of Jonathan Gold 101.

11. Rocio's Mole De Los Dioses

8255 Sunland Blvd, Sun Valley, CA
Restaurante mexicano · 14 tips y reseñas

Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles Times: Get the mole sampler and spend the evening comparing Oaxacan black mole with mellower mole Poblano; with the spicy, smoky mancha manteles; or with the signature mole de los dioses. Leer más.

Nickel Diner is one of Jonathan Gold 101.

12. Nickel Diner

524 S Main St (btwn 5th & 6th St), Los Ángeles, CA
Cafetería · Central City East · 180 tips y reseñas

Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles Times: Nickel Diner bakes its own bread, prepares elaborate cakes and maple-bacon doughnuts and makes delicious fried catfish with corn cakes. Don’t miss the Lowrider Burger. Leer más.

Musso & Frank Grill is one of Jonathan Gold 101.

13. Musso & Frank Grill

9.0
6667 Hollywood Blvd (at N Cherokee Ave), California
Restaurante americano · Hollywood · 130 tips y reseñas

Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles Times: Musso's, if you look at it a certain way, is a living museum of 1920s American cuisine: avocado cocktails, crab Louie, jellied consommé, grilled lamb kidneys and Wednesday sauerbraten. Leer más.

Fab Hot Dogs is one of Jonathan Gold 101.

14. Fab Hot Dogs

8.8
19417 Victory Blvd (at Tampa Ave), Tarzana, CA
Local de Hot Dogs · 79 tips y reseñas

Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles Times: Get your Carolina-style slaw dogs, Italian dogs, rippers, cremators, Hatch chile dogs—made with artisanal, natural-skin, small-production franks imported from New Jersey. Leer más.

Kang Ho Dong Baek Jeong is one of Jonathan Gold 101.

15. Kang Ho Dong Baek Jeong

3465 W 6th St (at Chapman Plaza), Los Ángeles, CA
Restaurante coreano de barbacoa · Wilshire Center - Koreatown · 144 tips y reseñas

Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles Times: The waiter will show you how to mix a soju bomb. Sobriety is not considered a virtue here. Leer más.

Trois Mec is one of Jonathan Gold 101.

16. Trois Mec

716 N Highland Ave,Los Angeles, CA 90038, USA, Los Ángeles, CA
Restaurante americano · 44 tips y reseñas

Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles Times: Ludovic Lefebvre is one of the greatest pure chefs ever to cook in Los Angeles. Trois Mec is the first place that has ever been his own, like a private club that happens to serve delicious cuisine. Leer más.

Chichen Itza Restaurant is one of Jonathan Gold 101.

17. Chichen Itza Restaurant

8.5
3655 S Grand Ave #C6 (inside Mercado La Paloma), Los Ángeles, CA
Restaurante mexicano · South LA · 59 tips y reseñas

Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles Times: Their menu is a living, habanero-intensive thesaurus of the panuchos and codzitos, sopa de lima and papadzules, banana-leaf tamales and shark casseroles that make up one of Mexico's spiciest cuisines. Leer más.

Spice Table is one of Jonathan Gold 101.

18. Spice Table

114 S Central Ave (at E 1st St), Los Ángeles, CA
Restaurante vietnamita · Little Tokyo · 59 tips y reseñas

Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles Times: It feels a bit like a grand steampunk machine dedicated to turning out roasted bone marrow with laksa leaf, kon loh mee noodles with barbecued pork, grilled lamb belly and fried chicken wings. Leer más.

Shunji Japanese Cuisine is one of Jonathan Gold 101.

19. Shunji Japanese Cuisine

8.2
12244 W Pico Blvd (at Bundy Dr), Santa Mónica, CA
Restaurante japonés · 28 tips y reseñas

Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles Times: Not just a sushi bar. You expect expensive wild sea bream to be treated reverently at a sushi bar. You do not expect the same care to be taken with a carrot. Leer más.

Sapp Coffee Shop is one of Jonathan Gold 101.

20. Sapp Coffee Shop

8.6
5183 Hollywood Blvd (at North Kingsley Dr), Los Ángeles, CA
Restaurante tailandés · Los Feliz · 81 tips y reseñas

Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles Times: Sapp's boat noodle soup is magnificent: a musky, blood-thickened beef soup screaming with chile heat; tart lime juice in lockstep with the funkiness of the broth. Leer más.

Jitlada Thai Restaurant is one of Jonathan Gold 101.

21. Jitlada Thai Restaurant

9.0
5233 W Sunset Blvd, Los Ángeles, CA
Restaurante tailandés · Little Armenia · 130 tips y reseñas

Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles Times: Try the crunchy fried fish with homegrown turmeric, mango salad lightened with coconut water or soft-shell crab with the legendarily stinky sataw bean. Leer más.

CUT by Wolfgang Puck is one of Jonathan Gold 101.

22. CUT by Wolfgang Puck

8.6
9500 Wilshire Blvd ((at the Beverly Wilshire, A Four Seasons Hotel)), Beverly Hills, CA
Steakhouse · 84 tips y reseñas

Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles Times: There’s some delicious meat and seafood here: Wagyu sashimi, bone marrow flan, thinly sliced veal tongue in salsa verde, and real Kyushu beef. Leer más.

Spago Beverly Hills is one of Jonathan Gold 101.

23. Spago Beverly Hills

8.7
176 N Canon Dr (at Wilshire Blvd.), Beverly Hills, CA
Restaurante de nueva cocina americana · 123 tips y reseñas

Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles Times: The most famous restaurant in the observable universe, reinvented by Wolfgang Puck and his new chef, Tetsu Yahagi. The thick prime rib steak sings with the flavors of blood, age and char. Leer más.

Guelaguetza Restaurant is one of Jonathan Gold 101.

24. Guelaguetza Restaurant

8.7
3014 W Olympic Blvd (at Normandie Ave), Los Ángeles, CA
Restaurante mexicano · Wilshire Center - Koreatown · 94 tips y reseñas

Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles Times: At Guelaguetza, you'll find tlayudas, like bean-smeared Oaxacan pizzas, the size of manhole covers; thick tortillas called memelas; and delicious, mole-drenched tamales. Leer más.

A.O.C. is one of Jonathan Gold 101.

25. A.O.C.

8.8
8700 W 3rd St (at S Hamel Rd), Los Ángeles, CA
Bar de vinos · Mid-City West · 123 tips y reseñas

Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles Times: Try the Spanish fried chicken with cumin, pappardelle with nettles and asparagus with lemongrass, and don’t forget the glass of Sancerre. Leer más.

Salt's Cure is one of Jonathan Gold 101.

26. Salt's Cure

8.3
1155 N Highland Ave (at Lexington Ave), West Hollywood, CA
Restaurante americano · 88 tips y reseñas

Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles Times: You’re here for an astonishing quantity of meat, charcuterie ranging from potted duck with blueberries to the intense house-cured bacon, and a menu of simple, butcher’s food. Leer más.

Red Medicine is one of Jonathan Gold 101.

27. Red Medicine

8400 Wilshire Blvd (at Gale Dr.), Beverly Hills, CA
Restaurante vietnamita · 90 tips y reseñas

Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles Times: Chef Jordan Kahn keeps it weird and proud with nominally Vietnamese-based cuisine, and the results are often as delicious as they are startling. Leer más.

Jar Restaurant is one of Jonathan Gold 101.

28. Jar Restaurant

8.0
8225 Beverly Blvd (at Harper Ave), Los Ángeles, CA
Steakhouse · Mid-City West · 50 tips y reseñas

Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles Times: Specialties include pot roast, Kansas City steaks and an iceberg wedge salad frosted with blue cheese. Don’t forget to try the chicken with kaffir lime leaf, either. Leer más.

Mariscos Jalisco is one of Jonathan Gold 101.

29. Mariscos Jalisco

8.5
3040 E Olympic Blvd (at Dacotah St), Los Ángeles, CA
Carrito de comida · 46 tips y reseñas

Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles Times: Raul Ortega might personally hand you a taco, ask if you want to try a plate of ceviche or aguachile. His signature tacos dorados de camaron, fried tacos with shrimp, are just too formidable. Leer más.

Hinoki & The Bird is one of Jonathan Gold 101.

30. Hinoki & The Bird

8.3
10 W Century Dr, Los Ángeles, CA
Restaurante japonés · Century City · 89 tips y reseñas

Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles Times: A fusion of complex, ritualized Japanese kaiseki cuisine with modern California small-plates cooking, like the black cod served under smoldering sheets of the Japanese cedar hinoki. Leer más.

Mélisse is one of Jonathan Gold 101.

31. Mélisse

1104 Wilshire Blvd (at 11th St), Santa Mónica, CA
Restaurante francés · 45 tips y reseñas

Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles Times: The luxury ingredients and luxury prices seem not to dissuade diners who are happy to face down $175 asparagus dinners, showers of truffles and caviar, and even the standard $125 prix fixe. Leer más.

Sqirl Kitchen is one of Jonathan Gold 101.

32. Sqirl Kitchen

9.0
720 N Virgil Ave (at Marathon St), Los Ángeles, CA
Restaurante de nueva cocina americana · East Hollywood · 203 tips y reseñas

Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles Times: We recommend the astonishing "Hamembert" plate with Mangalitsa ham, oozing wedges of Camembert cheese, and an artfully charred length of baguette. Leer más.

Bestia is one of Jonathan Gold 101.

33. Bestia

9.3
2121 E 7th Pl (at Santa Fe Ave), Los Ángeles, CA
Restaurante italiano · Downtown Los Angeles · 248 tips y reseñas

Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles Times: A restaurant that makes beef-heart tartare seem not only possible but desirable; that makes a craveable specialty of pork boiled with cabbage. Leer más.

ink. is one of Jonathan Gold 101.

34. ink.

8360 Melrose Ave (at Kings Rd), Los Ángeles, CA
Restaurante americano · Mid-City West · 186 tips y reseñas

Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles Times: Michael Voltaggio agonizes over every gram of sea-bean chimichurri on the beef tartare, every plate of potato charcoal with crème fraîche and every scoop of wood-smoke ice cream that leaves the line. Leer más.

Sea Harbour Seafood Restaurant is one of Jonathan Gold 101.

35. Sea Harbour Seafood Restaurant

7.2
3939 Rosemead Blvd (Valley Blvd), Rosemead, CA
Restaurante de Dim Sum · 39 tips y reseñas

Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles Times: Delivers in every way a seafood house can deliver, with tanks full of spider crabs, exotic reef fish and Santa Barbara spot prawns, and a kitchen prepared to braise sea cucumber and sun-dried abalone. Leer más.

Hannosuke is one of Jonathan Gold 101.

36. Hannosuke

8.7
3760 S Centinela Ave, Los Ángeles, CA
Restaurante japonés · Mar Vista · 23 tips y reseñas

Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles Times: We recommend the tendon, rice bowl with tempura, expressive of the roasty, nutty flavors of the expensive sesame frying oil, of the subtle sweetness of prawns and Tokyo eel. Leer más.

Night + Market is one of Jonathan Gold 101.

37. Night + Market

8.8
9043 W Sunset Blvd (at N Doheny Dr), West Hollywood, CA
Restaurante asiático · 72 tips y reseñas

Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles Times: Try the Rotgut Mekong whisky, stinky natural Gamays from the Loire, fearsome yet delicious nam prik, or pounded salads from the area around Chiang Mai. Leer más.

Hunan Mao Restaurant is one of Jonathan Gold 101.

38. Hunan Mao Restaurant

7.5
8728 Valley Blvd (Walnut Grove), Rosemead, CA
Restaurante chino · 9 tips y reseñas

Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles Times: The house-smoked Hunan ham has the smoky punch of first-rate barbecue, coarsely chopped and sautéed with dried long beans, garlic cloves, chopped chiles. Leer más.

The Tasting Kitchen is one of Jonathan Gold 101.

39. The Tasting Kitchen

8.3
1633 Abbot Kinney Blvd, Venice, CA
Restaurante de nueva cocina americana · 180 tips y reseñas

Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles Times: The basic impression is of Italian cooking translated into an odd American dialect, in which grilled anchovies are laid so beautifully on the plate that you suspect there's an art director. Leer más.

Urasawa is one of Jonathan Gold 101.

40. Urasawa

8.1
218 N Rodeo Dr, Beverly Hills, CA
Restaurante de sushi · 21 tips y reseñas

Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles Times: You will eat beef and chawan mushi and other things you may not associate with sushi because this is less a sushi bar than a kind of kaiseki restaurant, exquisitely seasonal, exquisitely Japanese. Leer más.

Corazon Y Miel is one of Jonathan Gold 101.

41. Corazon Y Miel

6626 Atlantic Ave, Bell, CA
Restaurante latinoamericano · 31 tips y reseñas

Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles Times: Try the chefly interpretation of Mexican bar snacks, including seared slices of carnitas terrine with cubes of Coca-Cola gelee and pigskin two ways. Leer más.

Meals By Genet is one of Jonathan Gold 101.

42. Meals By Genet

8.9
1053 S Fairfax Ave (btwn W Olympic & Witworth Dr), Los Ángeles, CA
Restaurante etíope · PICO · 37 tips y reseñas

Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles Times: The dorowot, a two-day chicken stew vibrating with what must be ginger and black pepper and bishop's weed and clove, cuts straight through to the Ethiopian soul. Leer más.

Animal is one of Jonathan Gold 101.

43. Animal

435 N Fairfax Ave, Los Ángeles, CA
Restaurante de nueva cocina americana · Mid-City West · 233 tips y reseñas

Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles Times: John Shook and Vinny Dotolo have a pretty good sense of what tastes good, be it melted cheese with chorizo or calves' brains with the French curry vadouvan Leer más.

Pizzeria Mozza is one of Jonathan Gold 101.

44. Pizzeria Mozza

9.1
641 N Highland Ave, Los Ángeles, CA
Pizzería · Hancock Park · 292 tips y reseñas

Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles Times: The cooking—the puffy pies at Pizzeria Mozza, perfected northern Italian dishes at Osteria Mozza, charcuterie and grilled meats at Chi'Spacca or focaccia at Mozza2Go—comes from an Italy of the mind. Leer más.

Vincenti Ristorante is one of Jonathan Gold 101.

45. Vincenti Ristorante

7.9
11930 San Vicente Blvd (at Montana Ave), Los Ángeles, CA
Restaurante italiano · Brentwood · 18 tips y reseñas

Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles Times: The chef, Nicola Mastronardi, is a master of the big, hardwood-burning ovens, of roast porchetta and cuttlefish salad, of the flavors of salt, clean ocean and smoke. Leer más.

Shanghai No. 1 Seafood Village is one of Jonathan Gold 101.

46. Shanghai No. 1 Seafood Village

6.7
250 W Valley Blvd (btwn Abbot & Prospect Ave), San Gabriel, CA
Restaurante chino · 30 tips y reseñas

Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles Times: Go straight for the crabs fried with chile and garlic; the crocks of Old Alley Pork, braised into pig candy; the smoked fish; the stone-pot fried rice; or the pan-fried pork buns. Leer más.

Church & State is one of Jonathan Gold 101.

47. Church & State

1850 Industrial St Apt 100 (at Mateo St), Los Ángeles, CA
Restaurante francés · Arts District · 92 tips y reseñas

Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles Times: Stunning bistro cooking: braised pork belly with favas and polenta, a gorgeous ballotine of rabbit with sprigs of fresh tarragon, tarte flambé, fried pig's ears, roasted marrowbone with radish. Leer más.

Drago Centro is one of Jonathan Gold 101.

48. Drago Centro

8.5
525 S Flower St (at 4th St), Los Ángeles, CA
Restaurante italiano · Financial District · 89 tips y reseñas

Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles Times: The cooking here includes both handcrafted pasta — the pappardelle with pheasant and the handmade spaghetti with Sicilian almond pesto are wonderful — and steak, fish and duck. Leer más.

Sotto is one of Jonathan Gold 101.

49. Sotto

9575 W Pico Blvd (at Edris Dr), Los Ángeles, CA
Restaurante italiano · South Robertson · 82 tips y reseñas

Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles Times: If you should happen across a special of lamb innards or one of the gigantic sweet-sour braised pork shanks, make sure to order one the second you sit down. Leer más.

Park's BBQ is one of Jonathan Gold 101.

50. Park's BBQ

9.0
955 S Vermont Ave (at W Olympic Blvd), Los Ángeles, CA
Restaurante coreano de barbacoa · Wilshire Center - Koreatown · 83 tips y reseñas

Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles Times: Park's pretty much has the top end of K-Town barbecue to itself. The quality of the galbi, the pork belly and the spicy galbi soup is superb. Leer más.

Kiriko Sushi is one of Jonathan Gold 101.

51. Kiriko Sushi

11301 W Olympic Blvd, Los Ángeles, CA
Restaurante de sushi · West Los Angeles · 27 tips y reseñas

Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles Times: The great specialty is cherrywood-smoked Copper River salmon with mango, a dish that certain local sushi masters would rather die than serve. (It's their loss: The dish is stunningly good.) Leer más.

El Parian is one of Jonathan Gold 101.

52. El Parian

8.0
1528 W Pico Blvd, Los Ángeles, CA
Restaurante latinoamericano · Pico Union · 15 tips y reseñas

Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles Times: Don’t miss the Guadalajara-style birria: roasted kid hacked into chunks and served in a strong consommé that tastes like amplified pan drippings. Leer más.

Ciros is one of Jonathan Gold 101.

53. Ciros

705 N Evergreen Ave (Malabar St), Los Ángeles, CA
Restaurante mexicano · Boyle Heights · 15 tips y reseñas

Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles Times: Must have: the tiny flautas, the house specialty, are tightly rolled and very crisp, buried under layers of chile sauce, thick guacamole and tart Mexican sour cream. Leer más.

Bulgarini Gelato is one of Jonathan Gold 101.

54. Bulgarini Gelato

8.0
749 E Altadena Dr, Altadena, CA
Heladería · 44 tips y reseñas

Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles Times: Some delicious examples: pistachio flavored with nuts hand-carried back from the Sicilian pistachio village Bronte, or rich goat's milk gelato spiked with roasted cacao nibs Leer más.

Cacao Mexicatessen is one of Jonathan Gold 101.

55. Cacao Mexicatessen

8.5
1576 Colorado Blvd (at Townsend Ave), Los Ángeles, CA
Restaurante mexicano · Eagle Rock · 88 tips y reseñas

Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles Times: Cacao has a fairly open mind on what might go into a taco. They make carnitas out of duck. Other ingredients include sea urchin, hibiscus flowers and huitlacoche. Leer más.

Krua Thai is one of Jonathan Gold 101.

56. Krua Thai

8.2
13130 Sherman Way, North Hollywood, CA
Restaurante tailandés · 53 tips y reseñas

Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles Times: The ultra-spicy, tamarind-soured, fish-sauce-laced house-special version of pad thai here is about as good as it gets, a powerful dish, truly exotic, sweet and squiggly and delicious. Leer más.

Golden Deli Vietnamese Restaurant is one of Jonathan Gold 101.

57. Golden Deli Vietnamese Restaurant

8.9
815 W Las Tunas Dr (at Mission Dr), San Gabriel, CA
Restaurante vietnamita · North San Gabriel · 73 tips y reseñas
Little Dom's is one of Jonathan Gold 101.

58. Little Dom's

8.9
2128 Hillhurst Ave (at Avocado St), Los Ángeles, CA
Restaurante italiano · Los Feliz · 176 tips y reseñas

Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles Times: Modeled on neighborhood Creole Italian places from New Orleans, so along with the burrata salad you get oyster po' boys, crawfish garnishing grilled fish, and fried shrimp with artichokes. Leer más.

The Bazaar by José Andrés is one of Jonathan Gold 101.

59. The Bazaar by José Andrés

465 S LA Cienega Blvd (at San Vicente Blvd), Los Ángeles, CA
Restaurante de tapas · Mid-City West · 255 tips y reseñas

Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles Times: Some strange, some wonderful: encapsulated olives, air breads, deconstructed Spanish omelets, mozzarella balls that explode into liquid, cotton candy mojitos. Leer más.

Bäco Mercat is one of Jonathan Gold 101.

60. Bäco Mercat

408 S Main St (at 4th St), Los Ángeles, CA
Gastropub · Downtown Los Angeles · 146 tips y reseñas

Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles Times: Go for the Bäco, Josef Centeno's signature creation, a kind of flatbread sandwich halfway between a Catalan coca and a taco pumped up on 'roids, slicked with a goopy, vaguely Mediterranean sauce. Leer más.

Lucques is one of Jonathan Gold 101.

61. Lucques

8474 Melrose Ave (at Clinton St), Los Ángeles, CA
Restaurante mediterráneo · 66 tips y reseñas

Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles Times: Suzanne Goin’s resinous herbs and precise splashes of acidity make vegetables dance and bring out the deep, fleshy resonances in braised pork cheeks and her notorious short ribs. Leer más.

Kogi BBQ Truck is one of Jonathan Gold 101.

62. Kogi BBQ Truck

9.0
(Greater LA Metro Area), Los Ángeles, CA
Carrito de comida · 219 tips y reseñas

Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles Times: Head to a deserted parking lot late at night and wait for the appearance of the Kogi truck, from which you will soon purchase enormous, great-tasting plates of Korean short-rib tacos. Leer más.

Rivera Restaurant is one of Jonathan Gold 101.

63. Rivera Restaurant

1050 S Flower St (at W 11th St), Los Ángeles, CA
Restaurante latinoamericano · South Park · 65 tips y reseñas

Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles Times: Chef John Sedlar treats his tortillas, with flowers pressed into them as if into a scrapbook, as seriously as he does his sweetbreads with huacatay or his snails with Jabugo ham. Leer más.

Coni'seafood is one of Jonathan Gold 101.

64. Coni'seafood

8.2
3544 W Imperial Hwy (at Yukon Ave), Inglewood, CA
Marisquería · 30 tips y reseñas

Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles Times: Chef Sergio Peñuelas is a master of pescado zarandeado, marinated snook cooked by shaking over charcoal until the flesh caramelizes but does not char. Also recommended: the fiery shrimp aguachile. Leer más.

Plan Check Kitchen + Bar is one of Jonathan Gold 101.

65. Plan Check Kitchen + Bar

8.4
1800 Sawtelle Blvd (at Nebraska Ave), Los Ángeles, CA
Gastropub · West Los Angeles · 168 tips y reseñas

Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles Times: The gearhead version of a modernist hamburger: layered with ketchup leather, pickle shavings, homemade American cheese scented with kombu seaweed, and a microscopically thin layer of fried cheese. Leer más.

Langer's Delicatessen-Restaurant is one of Jonathan Gold 101.

66. Langer's Delicatessen-Restaurant

9.1
704 S Alvarado St (at 7th St), Los Ángeles, CA
Tienda de delicatesen · Westlake South · 176 tips y reseñas

Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles Times: Favorite: The long-steamed pastrami, dense, hand-sliced and nowhere near lean, has a firm, chewy consistency, a gentle flavor of garlic and clove, and a clean edge of smokiness. Leer más.

Cooks County is one of Jonathan Gold 101.

67. Cooks County

8009 Beverly Blvd, Los Ángeles, CA
Restaurante de comida sureña · Mid-City West · 41 tips y reseñas

Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles Times: Cooks County is a restaurant you could visit three times a week and then come back for oxtail hash and cheese biscuits at Sunday brunch. Leer más.

Bludso's BBQ is one of Jonathan Gold 101.

68. Bludso's BBQ

811 S Long Beach Blvd (at Alondra Blvd.), Compton, CA
Parrilla · 53 tips y reseñas

Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles Times: Their brisket is a paradigm of meat, beef that disappears so quickly that if it weren't for the feeling of satisfying fullness you might swear that you had less eaten it than dreamed it. Leer más.

Hungry Cat is one of Jonathan Gold 101.

69. Hungry Cat

1555 Vine St (at Sunset Blvd), Los Ángeles, CA
Marisquería · Central Hollywood · 80 tips y reseñas

Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles Times: The first rule of the kitchen seems to be: Don't mess too much with the fish. That means the Santa Barbara sea urchin isn't a source of intriguing richness, it's a sea urchin. Leer más.

Matsuhisa is one of Jonathan Gold 101.

70. Matsuhisa

8.7
129 N LA Cienega Blvd, Beverly Hills, CA
Restaurante de sushi · 89 tips y reseñas

Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles Times: Nobu Matsuhisa is one of the one or two most important chefs ever to come out of Los Angeles, combining izakaya cooking and Peruvian flavors into a style that inspired chefs all around the world. Leer más.

Guisados is one of Jonathan Gold 101.

71. Guisados

8.9
2100 E Cesar E Chavez Ave (at N St Louis St), Los Ángeles, CA
Restaurante de tacos · Boyle Heights · 107 tips y reseñas

Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles Times: If you dare, try the tacos with chiles torreados, ultrahot chiles grown in Armando De La Torre's backyard, sautéed until they practically melt from the heat, served in a fresh tortilla. Leer más.

Superba Snack Bar is one of Jonathan Gold 101.

72. Superba Snack Bar

533 Rose Ave, Venice, CA
Restaurante de nueva cocina americana · 71 tips y reseñas

Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles Times: Specialty: pasta, handmade, whole-wheat rigatoni more or less in the style of cacio e pepe, cooked extremely al dente and tossed with cheese and a punishing handful of black pepper. Leer más.

Tiara Café is one of Jonathan Gold 101.

73. Tiara Café

127 E 9th St (at Werdin Pl), Los Ángeles, CA
Restaurante asiático · Fashion District · 25 tips y reseñas

Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles Times: Thi's pancetta-spiked take on the Vietnamese caramelized sea bass clay pot is surpassed only by the bass heads and tails, crisped on the grill, served with sweetened fish sauce for dipping. Leer más.

Tsujita LA Artisan Noodle is one of Jonathan Gold 101.

74. Tsujita LA Artisan Noodle

8.4
2057 Sawtelle Blvd, Los Ángeles, CA
Restaurante de ramen · West Los Angeles · 208 tips y reseñas

Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles Times: Tsujita, a spinoff of a revered Tokyo ramen restaurant, is so far ahead of its competition that the others may as well not exist. Leer más.

N/Naka is one of Jonathan Gold 101.

75. N/Naka

9.1
3455 Overland Ave, Los Ángeles, CA
Restaurante japonés · Mar Vista · 37 tips y reseñas

Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles Times: It is occasionally difficult to ascertain whether the most impressive bit of a dish is the chewy slab of Japanese halibut fin or the thimble-sized cucumber garnishing the fish. Leer más.

Post & Beam is one of Jonathan Gold 101.

76. Post & Beam

8.6
3767 Santa Rosalia Dr (Marlton Ave), Los Ángeles, CA
Restaurante de nueva cocina americana · Crenshaw · 42 tips y reseñas

Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles Times: A fresh take on African American dishes: smoked baby backs, roast salmon, buttermilk fried chicken and greens cooked down with ham hocks with an understated chefly flair. Plus hand-stretched pizza. Leer más.

Marouch is one of Jonathan Gold 101.

77. Marouch

8.6
4905 Santa Monica Blvd (edgemont st), Los Ángeles, CA
Restaurante de Medio Oriente · Little Armenia · 25 tips y reseñas

Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles Times: We sometimes dream of living close to Marouch, close enough anyway to drop in at noon for grilled quail and a beer and midafternoons for a Lebanese sweet and a thimble of thick Turkish coffee. Leer más.

Din Tai Fung Dumpling House is one of Jonathan Gold 101.

78. Din Tai Fung Dumpling House

1108 S Baldwin Ave (at Arcadia Ave), Arcadia, CA
Restaurante de dumplings · 233 tips y reseñas

Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles Times: Din Tai Fung really does have good soup dumplings, tender and swollen with hot broth, zapped with fresh ginger, perfectly elastic and almost engineered. Leer más.

FIG Santa Monica is one of Jonathan Gold 101.

79. FIG Santa Monica

8.6
101 Wilshire Blvd (at Fairmont Miramar Hotel), Santa Mónica, CA
Restaurante mediterráneo · Wilshire-Montana · 80 tips y reseñas

Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles Times: The menu includes both spinach-leaf lasagna and bacon-wrapped bacon, a salad of beets and oranges and a plate of tongue with tomatillo. Leer más.

The Sycamore Kitchen is one of Jonathan Gold 101.

80. The Sycamore Kitchen

8.9
143 S LA Brea Ave, Los Ángeles, CA
Restaurante · Mid-City West · 112 tips y reseñas

Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles Times: The turkey sandwich is heavenly: thick slices of nicely brined bird layered on dense house-made bread with thin slivers of just-ripe Camembert cheese, arugula and cherry mostarda. Leer más.

Hatfield's is one of Jonathan Gold 101.

81. Hatfield's

8.3
6703 Melrose Ave (at Citrus), Los Ángeles, CA
Restaurante de nueva cocina americana · 35 tips y reseñas

Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles Times: Known for the soup shots at the bar and for stuffing yellowtail into its croque madame. Leer más.

The Hart + The Hunter is one of Jonathan Gold 101.

82. The Hart + The Hunter

7950 Melrose Ave (at N Hayworth Ave), Los Ángeles, CA
Restaurante de nueva cocina americana · Mid-City West · 82 tips y reseñas

Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles Times: The South filtered through the not-South: fried chicken skin served with hand-made Tabasco, a hot biscuit with a spoonful of pimento cheese or a steaming bowl of black-eyed peas. Leer más.

La Casita Mexicana is one of Jonathan Gold 101.

83. La Casita Mexicana

8.3
4030 Gage Ave, Bell, CA
Restaurante mexicano · 47 tips y reseñas

Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles Times: Have you ever found transcendence in a plate of chilaquiles? This is a good place to try. Leer más.

Son of a Gun is one of Jonathan Gold 101.

84. Son of a Gun

8.4
8370 W 3rd St (at S Orlando Ave), Los Ángeles, CA
Marisquería · Mid-City West · 162 tips y reseñas

Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles Times: The most popular dish? Definitely the fried chicken sandwich, with coleslaw and what must be the only aioli on the planet spiked with Rooster hot sauce. Leer más.

Angelini Osteria is one of Jonathan Gold 101.

85. Angelini Osteria

8.9
7313 Beverly Blvd (btwn N Fuller Ave & N Poinsettia Pl), Los Ángeles, CA
Restaurante italiano · Mid-City West · 92 tips y reseñas

Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles Times: Some people arrange their weekly schedules around Angelini's specials: kidney stew on Tuesdays; braised oxtails on Wednesdays, liver alla Veneziana on Thursdays. Leer más.

Alma is one of Jonathan Gold 101.

86. Alma

952 S Broadway, Los Ángeles, CA
Restaurante de nueva cocina americana · Fashion District · 31 tips y reseñas

Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles Times: Try the seaweed-tofu beignets, spare arrangements of foraged greens, scallops with nightshade berries or shriveled, butter-soaked carrots that somehow manage to taste better than meat. Leer más.

Rustic Canyon is one of Jonathan Gold 101.

87. Rustic Canyon

8.3
1119 Wilshire Blvd (at 11th Ct.), Santa Mónica, CA
Bar de vinos · Wilshire-Montana · 86 tips y reseñas

Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles Times: Under new chef Jeremy Fox, Rustic Canyon has jolted the superb produce into something resembling a cuisine; try the asparagus with fried pheasant egg and ultra-dense bone-marrow gravy. Leer más.

Lukshon is one of Jonathan Gold 101.

88. Lukshon

3239 Helms Ave (btwn Venice & Washington Blvd), Culver City, CA
Restaurante asiático · 70 tips y reseñas

Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles Times: Pan-Asian perfected in a hundred little ways, including the precise acidity of the sticky Chinese pork ribs, the aromatics in the reinvented Singapore Sling and the deconstructed shrimp toast. Leer más.

Kobawoo House is one of Jonathan Gold 101.

89. Kobawoo House

8.4
698 S Vermont Ave (at W 7th St), Los Ángeles, CA
Restaurante coreano · Wilshire Center - Koreatown · 40 tips y reseñas

Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles Times: Most famous for its version of bossam: boiled pork belly you wrap up into leaves with raw garlic, sliced chiles and a salty condiment made from tiny fermented fish. Leer más.

Newport Tan Cang Seafood Restaurant is one of Jonathan Gold 101.

90. Newport Tan Cang Seafood Restaurant

8.4
518 W Las Tunas Dr, San Gabriel, CA
Restaurante chino · Mission District · 72 tips y reseñas

Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles Times: Even strong men are defeated by the parade of sautéed pea shoots with garlic, crunchy salt-and-pepper squid and the gargantuan house-special lobster, fried with chile, black pepper and scallion. Leer más.

101 Noodle Express is one of Jonathan Gold 101.

91. 101 Noodle Express

7.8
1408 E Valley Blvd. (at New Ave.), Alhambra, CA
Restaurante chino · 73 tips y reseñas

Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles Times: Go for the beef roll: that brawny, steroidal composition of crisp, flaky Chinese pancakes with cilantro and sweet, house-made bean sauce rolled around fistfuls of long-braised beef. Leer más.

Mantee Cafe is one of Jonathan Gold 101.

92. Mantee Cafe

8.4
10962 Ventura Blvd (Vineland Ave), Studio City, CA
Restaurante mediterráneo · 25 tips y reseñas

Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles Times: Mantee brings a different kind of edge to Lebanese-Armenian cuisine. Try the platter of beef dumplings sizzling in a bath of garlicky yogurt. Leer más.

Attari Sandwich Shop is one of Jonathan Gold 101.

93. Attari Sandwich Shop

1100 Westwood Blvd., Los Ángeles, CA
Lugar de sándwiches · Westwood · 33 tips y reseñas

Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles Times: Everyone is here for Attari's sandwiches: lengths of toasted French bread dressed with fresh tomatoes, lettuce and a smattering of spiced, super-tart Iranian pickles. Leer más.

Valentino Italian Restaurant is one of Jonathan Gold 101.

94. Valentino Italian Restaurant

3115 Pico Blvd, Santa Mónica, CA
Restaurante italiano · 22 tips y reseñas

Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles Times: Jonathan Gold says: I will never forget my first taste of Quintarelli Amarone here, which is as close as I had gotten to a sweet, musky taste of heaven. Leer más.

The Grill on the Alley is one of Jonathan Gold 101.

95. The Grill on the Alley

8.3
9560 Dayton Way, (at Wilshire Blvd.), Beverly Hills, CA
Steakhouse · 26 tips y reseñas

Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles Times: L.A.’s essential rice pudding: touched with cinnamon, drizzled with heavy cream, coaxing the nutty, rounded essence out of every grain of rice. Leer más.

Soban is one of Jonathan Gold 101.

96. Soban

8.7
4001 W Olympic Blvd (at S Norton Ave), Los Ángeles, CA
Restaurante coreano · 13 tips y reseñas

Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles Times: Don’t miss the ganjang gaejang, raw blue crabs marinated in an elixir of what seems to be a distillation of the animal's sweet juices. Leer más.

Picca Peruvian Cantina is one of Jonathan Gold 101.

97. Picca Peruvian Cantina

9575 W Pico Blvd, Los Ángeles, CA
Restaurante peruano · South Robertson · 91 tips y reseñas

Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles Times: Chef Ricardo Zarate is filtering Peruvian cooking through the aesthetics of the izakaya--meals you've been used to eating in L.A. Peruvian restaurants become plates meant to be shared. Leer más.

Manhattan Beach Post is one of Jonathan Gold 101.

98. Manhattan Beach Post

9.0
1142 Manhattan Ave, Manhattan Beach, CA
Restaurante de nueva cocina americana · Downtown Manhattan Beach · 148 tips y reseñas

Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles Times: You're probably there for a crack at the impossibly rich bacon cheddar biscuits, and we can't say that we blame you. Leer más.

Le Comptoir at The Wine Vault is one of Jonathan Gold 101.

99. Le Comptoir at The Wine Vault

7.6
929 S Brand Blvd, Glendale, CA
Restaurante americano · 3 tips y reseñas

Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles Times: His signature dish is a perfectly fried egg with greens, and fried doughnuts for dessert. Leer más.

BierBeisl is one of Jonathan Gold 101.

100. BierBeisl

9669 Santa Monica Blvd (btwn Bedford & Camden Dr), Beverly Hills, CA
Restaurante alemán · 15 tips y reseñas

Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles Times: Bernhard Mairinger's emporium of schnitzel, milk-poached weisswurst and creamy goulasch is a purely Austrian restaurant of a sort we have never quite seen here. Leer más.

Tar & Roses is one of Jonathan Gold 101.

101. Tar & Roses

8.8
602 Santa Monica Blvd (at 6th St.), Santa Mónica, CA
Restaurante americano · 82 tips y reseñas

Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles Times: Tar & Roses, which also has a terrific, mostly Italian, wine list, may also mark the first time in our nation's history when cauliflower became more delicious than prime steak. Leer más.