Must-see restaurants in West Hollywood & Mid-City

Marix is barely more than a glassed-in patio with a retractable roof, but it's been a party place for a generation of LGBT Angelenos and those who love…

Down-home Southeast Asian cooking stars at this two-generation, family-run stall inside the Original Farmers Market. Try laksa, Singapore's national dish,…

A big, funky, reimagined taco joint with raw-light-bulb chandeliers, a pounded-metal bar, bright-pink-paper menu and handmade, fresh-grilled tortillas…

A delightful Turkish cafe where tables spill from a whitewashed interior (with colorful handprints on the walls) onto the sidewalk. Gyros are wrapped in…

Based at the Palihotel, this spare, Southern-inspired kitchen offers a rotating menu mixing share plates (avocado toast with smoked olive tapenade) and…

This sunny counter-service vegan chain serves dishes that herbivores will love and carnivores will more than merely endure. That's thanks to proteins that…

Terrific nuevo Mexican food served in whitewashed brick environs, with dangling bird-cage chandeliers and a terrific marble tequila bar. The slow-cooked…

It's a classic LA success story: cousins Jim and Sabin moved to LA with a dream of a business drawing on their New England heritage. They started with a…

Like its home, the Standard Hotel, Alma's a hub of millennial cool. Menus feature hipster standards during the day – think avocado toast, chicken club or…

This brightly painted, artsy-adorable Japanese-fusion cafe (enter just south of Wilshire Blvd) serves sashimi salads, udon, rice bowls piled with miso…

The guys behind Animal also operate this creative fish and seafood kitchen festooned with beach-shack decor. The menu changes daily, but you might find…

A buttery and delightfully aromatic cake shop doing a brisk business in mini red-velvet cheesecakes, banana cake smothered with chocolate buttercream, and…

A fantastic, fresh, all-natural counter-service joint with affordable grilled-veggie salads, pastas, semi-authentic tacos, pizzas (the grilled chicken is…

Simply put, this is some of the best Japanese food available in Los Angeles, served izakaya style with fusion sushi. Order any of its small plates, but…

Traditional southern Italian cuisine, by way of, um…Toronto? Facts is facts, and you will love the carpaccio di tonno, the thin-crust pizze and exquisite…

This tasteful kitchen began life as Coach and Horses, one of Hollywood's favorite dives, before it was reimagined into a place where you can get buffalo…

Once the one-and-only tasty option for vegans, this famous kitchen from chef and cookbook author Ann Gentry still satisfies even devout carnivores with…

An upscale, new-school taqueria. Vegetarians may opt for the roasted poblano and jack cheese tacos; fish heads will dig the branzino, shrimp or lobster …

Let the bossa nova grooves flow at this ever-so-cute French cafe set in the American Rag complex. There are tables on the sidewalk, but we like the sofa…

This neighborhood Italian joint feels like it's belonged here since forever, though it opened in 2012. That's when it was named one of Esquire's best new…