Miami’s Kyu Brings Wood-Fired Cooking and Significant Buzz to Century City
The main dining room at Kyu Los Angeles in Century City. | Kyu Restaurants It’s not every day that a popular Miami restaurant expands to the West Coast, what with the narrative of California’s difficult environment for conducting business and Los Angeles’s often Byzantine rules for opening a large-scale restaurant. But Kyu’s November 9 opening in Century City, tucked behind the historic Fairmont Century Plaza at the base of a two-skyscraper luxury residential project owned by billionaire developers David and Simon Reuben, makes sense for a restaurant chain with plans to expand globally. Kyu debuted in Miami in 2016 and opened inside Las Vegas’s Fontainebleau in December 2023. With a Nobu-style menu of approachable grilled dishes and an expansive, high-design interior, Kyu brings another compelling restaurant to Century City — which had been on the wane in recent years, following the closure of Craft. Things are turning, though, as just a few weeks ago, Jeremy Fox reopened Birdie G’s a
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Your Los Angeles Restaurant Weekend Guide: November 13
Tlayudas and meat on the grill at Maydan Market. | Stan Lee Every Friday, our editors compile a trusty list of recommendations to answer the most pressing of questions: “Where should I eat?” Here are four places to check out this weekend in Los Angeles. And if you need some ideas on where to drink, here’s our list of the hottest places to get cocktails in town. This week’s recommendations focus on the 2026 Eater Awards recipients in Los Angeles. For an award-winning pie: Chainsaw in Melrose Hill Selecting Chainsaw as our best new bakery winner for the Eater Awards required some discussion. Although the pop-up-turned-cafe initially started with strict devotion to their noteworthy pies — especially the signature passionfruit lime icebox pie — Chainsaw quickly became a notable neighborhood stop for coffee and arepas, too. Still, baking is at the core of Chainsaw, and we as a team were excited by what this tiny shop on Melrose brings to Los Angeles. When you try Karla Subero Pittol’s treat
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Downtown LA’s Semi-Hidden Whiskey Den Is Back
Bar Jackalope. | Carvingblock Studios Bar Jackalope, the whiskey den tucked in the back of Seven Grand, is back. After closing in July 2025, the bar will reopen on Thursday, November 19, with whiskey flights, classic cocktails, and a locker program that lets guests keep their own bottles on-site. After its initial debut in 2014, the bar gained a devoted following. Adam Kloos, who took over as Seven Grand’s general manager in October 2025, says that even after Bar Jackalope’s closure, guests would come in asking about reservations. ”We still get questions all the time, and people get super bummed that it’s not open,” he says. “There’s just so much excitement behind it.” Kloos made it his personal project to revive the bar over the last few months. Bar Jackalope will reopen with a menu of six whiskey cocktails: Old Fashioned, rye Manhattan, Sazerac, sour, julep, and highball. Each highlights a different whiskey, including Heaven Hill Bottled in Bond in the Old Fashioned and Maker’s 46
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Lodge Bread Brings Its Massive Cinnamon Rolls and Sourdough Loaves to Pasadena
Lodge Bread. | Wonho Frank Lee Lodge Bread Co., the bakery known for its oversized cinnamon rolls and sourdough loaves, opened its fourth location in Pasadena on Thursday, November 12. Lodge Bread’s founder, two-time James Beard Award semifinalist Or Amsalam, has big plans for the bakery’s Pasadena space, with an expanded menu, baked goods that use naturally leavened dough, a daytime menu of sandwiches, and expansive seating, plus an adjacent pizza-pasta restaurant called Full Proof, which will debut in early 2027. Arthur Sherman, who became Lodge Bread’s managing partner in 2021, says the former industrial building in Pasadena presented an opportunity to expand the business. After years of being limited to cooking breads, pizzas, and other items from a wood-fired oven at other locations, the team was able to install a full kitchen. “We love the bread that we make,” says Sherman. “We’re lucky to fully realize what Lodge can finally be. With a full kitchen, Pasadena is the first place w
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A New Arts District Ice Cream Shop Scoops California Flavors
Beamz. | Paul Anderson Beamz, a new ice cream shop from LGS Studio’s Noel Hennessy, has landed in the Arts District at the Signal Shops. The design-forward scoop shop opened at the end of September with California-inspired ice cream and sorbet made in-house on an Italian Bravo Trittico, plus sodas and floats. Born and raised in Washington, Hennessy grew up working in bakeries and cafes. After graduating high school, he moved to Seattle and worked as a barista at a street cart during the ’90s coffee boom, then relocated to Boston to study photography, sculpture, and painting. With a degree under his belt, Hennessy headed to New York and joined Bonita, a Brooklyn restaurant operated by Andrew Tarlow, of Diner and Marlow & Sons fame. “From that family of people, I learned so much about service, food, and wine,” Hennessy says. After Bonita, Hennessy worked at Cafe Gitane, and eventually opened his own restaurant, St. Helen Cafe, in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. “It was a total homespun project
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Nancy Silverton Opens LA’s Most Hopeful Restaurant in Pacific Palisades
Spacca Tutto. | Matthew Kang Altadena and its vibrant restaurant community have been well documented in the aftermath of the Eaton Fire that devastated the neighborhood; the Pacific Palisades has, so far, had less of a comeback, with fewer rebuilding permits issued to businesses. In the Palisades, though many residential buildings are in full rebuild, with construction crews scattered throughout the seaside borough, many families have opted not to return. Sign up for the Kang Town newsletter This post originally appeared in my Kang Town newsletter, where I cover all things dining in the West. Sign up here to get my latest stories. In the immediate aftermath of the Palisades Fire, LA chef, podcast host, and owner of the footwear brand Snibbs Daniel Shemtob was one of many restaurant workers who immediately mobilized to feed victims and first responders of the wildfires, partnering with World Central Kitchen to provide meals from his food truck, the Lime Truck. Having lost his own home
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Every Los Angeles 2026 Eater Award Winner, Mapped
Roast chicken and Caesar Panzanella at Henrietta. | Stan Lee/Eater Los Angeles has had an exciting year in dining, with the ever-expanding culinary scene adding new destinations for daytime pastries, inventive cocktails, seasonal prix fixe dinners from celebrated chefs, and South American cooking. That excitement is reflected in Los Angeles’s 2026 Eater Awards, presented by Capital One, celebrating the best the city has to offer in bakeries, dishes, and more. Several ladder up to Eater’s national awards for 2026. Here’s where to find the local picks around town. Eater is partnering with select Eater Award winners to offer special dining perks now through January 31, 2027. To access these exclusive perks, create an Eater account or download and create an account on the Eater app for iOS. (Terms apply)
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Introducing LA’s 2026 Eater Award Winners
Tlayudas from Lugya'h at Maydan Market. | Stan Lee/Eater A slew of reimagined bistros, revivals of old dining favorites, colorful cafes, and specialty pastry makers all entered the Los Angeles scene this past year and struck a chord with diners. But being a successful Los Angeles restaurant in 2026 meant far more than superlative food and service. Each introduced experiences that transcend what we expect from a restaurant in spite of a severe economic slowdown, continuing ICE raids, and a steep decline in Los Angeles tourism. This crop of restaurants reflects the continued inventiveness of Los Angeles’s chefs and independent business owners in the face of uncertainty. In late 2025, Little Fish expanded into Melrose Hill, drawing crowds with a unique style of West Coast seafood, while Hermon’s became an envied neighborhood restaurant. Yerord Mas’s $38 sandwich kept long lines, while tasting menu prices dropped considerably. The year 2026 was also one of rebirths, with chef Ray Garcia’s
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Skywalker Grill Is Los Angeles’s Most Beautiful New Restaurant
Food at Skywalker Grill in the Lucas Museum. | Tom McGovern When I heard that a restaurant called Skywalker Grill was opening at the new Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, I was expecting a wonderland of Star Wars-themed food and drinks (not dissimilar to the Blue Milk and Ronto Wraps served at Disneyland’s Galaxy’s Edge) in a hyperfuturistic dining room. My predictions were entirely wrong. Skywalker Grill is a beautiful and modern museum restaurant with a menu that doesn’t feel as enthralling as a space opera saga between good and evil. Still, if you can manage to get a reservation and temper nerdy expectations, Skywalker Grill is worth a visit, if only to appreciate the modern architecture, stunning downtown views, and simple — but serviceable — menu. What to order Tangles of fried calamari in a craggy batter that feels light and crisp, tossed with aromatic fried basil and sliced Fresno chiles, arrive steaming hot. For me, what made this shareable appetizer was the smoky kick of the acco
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The Best Dishes Eater Editors Ate This Week: November 9
Grilled bread, Maison Bordier butter, and Nardello pepper jelly at Darling. | Ron De Angelis The editors at Eater Los Angeles dine out several times a week, if not per day, which means we’re always encountering standout dishes that deserve time in the limelight. Here’s the very best of everything the team has eaten this week. Hainan-style turkey salad sandwich from Jeff’s Table in Highland Park I’ve been on a sandwich kick recently, from tuna blanketed in cheese on crisp slices of sourdough to creamy egg salad tucked between milk bread and rounds of mozzarella smashed between focaccia. One of my favorite recent sandwiches was the Hainan-style turkey from Jeff’s Table in Highland Park, which operates out of Flask. The sandwich was everything I love about a Hainan chicken plate, with refreshing cucumbers and garlicky chile crisp, but in handheld form. Plus, even this certified turkey hater can admit that this is some good turkey. 5900 N. Figueroa Street, Los Angeles, CA 90042. — Rebecca
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