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Forbes
25-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Forbes
15 Standout DineLA Deals Worth Trying This Summer
Uchi DineLA DineLA is back for summer, running from July 25 through August 8. Hundreds of restaurants across Los Angeles are offering special prix fixe menus, but these are the ones that truly stand out. unajyu set Toku Unagi & Sushi (West LA) LA's only Japanese unagi specialty restaurant offers an $88 five-course tasting menu featuring scallop mango, ikura chawanmushi with caviar, shrimp tempura and your choice of unagi preparations or omakase sushi for the main course. Dessert at Toku Unagi & Sushi is a surprise from the chef. Californian coastal seafood Koast (Melrose Avenue) From the team behind the Michelin-starred Kali, Koast serves up California coastal cuisine under chef Michael Kerner. Their $65 three-course DineLA menu features standouts like a crispy-on-the-outside, tender-on-the-inside scallop cake, market fish and their beloved brown butter cake. Add a curated wine pairing from their expert sommelier for $30. 1 Pico 1 Pico at Shutters on the Beach (Santa Monica) Beloved by celebrities for its oceanfront views and refined coastal fare, 1 Pico recently launched a new menu from chef Vittorio Lucariello, known for his Neapolitan roots. The $65 DineLA menu includes baby calamari bruschetta, cacio e pepe with sausage, branzino, and desserts like mango sago, tiramisu and a molten chocolate cake. Bonus: complimentary valet for DineLA guests. Crab fried rice Sampa (DTLA Arts District) Chef Josh Espinosa reimagines Filipino cuisine with elevated flair. Brunch ($45) includes housemade calamansi juice and options like lechon fried rice, crab omelette, steaksilog, and pan de sal French toast. The $55 dinner menu at Sampa features kare kare tamales, Filipino bucatini, ribeye salpicao and ube cheesecake. Grilled skewers Kappo Miyabi (Santa Monica) This wagyu-focused Japanese spot offers a $65 dinner set with sushi and their signature wagyu hot stone rice. But the real deal is lunch at Kappo Miyabi—just $35 for miso soup, salad, crispy rice, assorted sushi, hand rolls, miso-glazed eggplant and gyoza. Nigiri Uchi (West Hollywood) Part of the acclaimed restaurant group recently visited by Beyoncé for its famed fried milk dessert and warm banana cake with Kahlúa ice cream, Uchi's $55 menu includes hama chili, zero sen temaki, Korean flounder and sea bream nigiri, crispy pork, grilled cobia, and their signature 'seasonal candy bar.' Oysters Connie & Ted's (West Hollywood) Chef Michael Cimarusti and executive chef Sam Baxter offer classic New England-style seafood at $35 for lunch or $55 for dinner. Expect fresh oysters, the award-winning HookBurger, Ed's Portuguese fish stew, and lobster rolls (hot with butter or cold with mayo) at Connie & Ted's. Sushi bar Soko (Santa Monica) Inside the Fairmont Miramar, Soko, an intimate eight-seat sushi bar led by chef Masa Shimakawa serves an $85 three-course dinner with sashimi, Miyazaki wagyu beef and bara chirashi sushi with bamboo and wakame soup. Miso bronzed black cod Koi (West Hollywood) A longtime celebrity favorite, Koi offers both regular and vegan DineLA menus. Highlights include crispy rice with spicy tuna, miso bronzed black cod, and vegan takes on classics like the dragon roll and garden roll. Lemon Grove rooftop Lemon Grove at The Aster (Hollywood) A rooftop oasis with sweeping views of the Hollywood sign and Capitol Records, Lemon Grove offers a $65 menu from chef Daniel Pfeifer-Kotz. Highlights include hummus with cucumbers, roasted half chicken with herb jus, ricotta agnolotti, dark chocolate mousse and apple cake. Cavatelli alle pescator Florence Osteria & Piano Bar (West Hollywood) This new Tuscan-inspired spot brings the flavors of Florence to LA with $35 lunch and $65 dinner menus. Look for tuna tartare, Cavatelli alle Pescatora (with clams, mussels, shrimp, and lobster bisque) and limoncello tiramisu with cocoa-soaked biscotti at Florence Osteria & Piano Bar. FIG interior FIG at Fairmont Miramar (Santa Monica) With poolside views and a focus on local, farm-to-table ingredients, inside the Fairmont Miramar Hotel & Bungalows's restaurant FIG's $65 dinner menu from chef Joseph Cook includes peaches with burrata, slow-cooked duck breast and a flaky apple galette. DineLA menu Crustacean (Beverly Hills) This iconic Vietnamese fusion restaurant celebrates 30 years in Beverly Hills and 50 years as a brand. Crustacean's $45 lunch menu includes kohlrabi Caesar, crispy "banh hoi" tiger prawns, caramelized pork spare ribs, turmeric grilled fish, and smoked poblano udon. Add garlic noodles or rice for an additional charge. Family style menu Openaire at The LINE Hotel (Koreatown) Two Michelin-starred chef Josiah Citrin offers a $65 prix-fixe, family-style dinner under a greenhouse canopy at Openaire inside the LINE Hotel. Expect tempura squash blossoms, slow-roasted ocean trout, Snake River Farms wagyu zabuton, and chocolate peanut butter crunch cake. Prime rib Lawry's The Prime Rib (Beverly Hills) Celebrating 85 years, classic steakhouse Lawry's offers one of DineLA's best deals. For $69, enjoy their iconic spinning bowl salad, a 4-ounce lobster tail, a choice of prime rib cuts, mashed potatoes, Yorkshire pudding, and your choice of creamed spinach or corn.
Time Out
24-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Time Out
The summer edition of Dine LA is finally back—and here are our favorite deals
Beginning tomorrow, Dine LA is back. Now in its 17th year, L.A.'s biggest restaurant week offers prix-fixe menus starting from $15 per person, though many places now opt to offer menus in the priciest, wide-ranging category: $65 and above. For the next two weeks, Angelenos can score a handful of small discounts at restaurants across the city, including a few of what I consider the city's best restaurants. For those who were going to splurge anyway, you can even score a two-Michelin-star meal at a $75 discount over at Mélisse in Santa Monica. For all of those hunting for an actual bargain, I've found 17 different places across Los Angeles that I'd consider a good deal, in one way or another. My personal favorites include the pair of $25 and $35 meal deals from Koreatown's Soban, home to L.A.'s best soy-marinated crab and one of the best banchan selections in the city. (Any genuine lover of Korean cuisine knows that the complimentary side dishes provided with your meal are one of the best representations of a given restaurant's true culinary capabilities.) Did I mention Soban is also one of the city's best restaurants? Another truly great option is the $65 prix-fixe menu from the Girl & the Goat in the Arts District, which includes five family-style dishes and a matcha tres leches with rhubarb-strawberry sorbet for dessert. While Top Chef alum Stephanie Izard's globally inspired small plates restaurant often gets overlooked with all the other amazing options in the destination restaurant-heavy neighborhood, the Dine LA menu might just remind you why this brick-lined, plant-filled restaurant is a great option to keep in your back pocket for your next night out in greater Downtown L.A. Until Somni reopened last November and upstaged all other restaurants in West Hollywood (it also recently got three Michelin stars!), Ardor was my top dining pick in the city-neighborhood, and it's also participating in Dine LA. The swanky hotel restaurant inside the West Hollywood EDITION offers a vegetable-forward menu within its cinematic dining room and verdant outdoor patio. The $65 prix-fixe menu nets you the eatery's signature tomato-topped milk bread, plus your choice of Spanish octopus or tandoor carrots as an appetizer. For mains, choose between skirt steak, king crab tagliatelle or Ardor's standout sweet potato curry. While I've yet to personally try the chocolate espresso torte on Ardor's Dine LA menu, I've loved every dessert I've tried at the restaurant, so it's likely a safe bet as well. Finally, I'd like to recommend bookmarking two restaurants that have yet to release their Dine LA menus: Mr. T in Hollywood and Sushi Kisen in Arcadia. Both restaurants will be offering menus in the $65 and over category. Mr. T offers République alum Alisa Vannah's rendition of modern Parisian cuisine. Co-owned by music mogul Jay-Z (whose offices are located upstairs), it's one of the best French restaurants in the city, with a gorgeous patio full of string lights and a fire pit. As for Sushi Kisen, the San Gabriel Valley sushi restaurant is one of my favorite places for sushi in L.A. County. Even on a regular day, the omakase at the counter is a relative bargain. Despite the fact it takes over an hour for me to drive there in normal traffic, I spent my birthday weekend shlepping to Arcadia for the restaurant's second anniversary kaisendon, which came topped with blue crab, ikura, sea urchin and shrimp. The set also came with a side of marinated sashimi. While Sushi Kisen has yet to publish its Dine LA menu, you can rest assured that whatever they're offering will be a steal in terms of fish quality and overall value. While it's true that the vast majority of Dine LA prix-fixe menus aren't really deals anymore, these handful of options will be more than enough to keep you happy during the summer edition. Bon appétit!
Time Out
23-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Time Out
The 17 best deals for Dine LA restaurant week, summer 2025
The deal: A $25 lunch menu and $35 per head all-day dinner menu, minimum party size of two Why we recommend it: Soban is the best Korean restaurant in L.A., with some of the most delicious, unique banchan (side dishes) in Los Angeles. It's also one of the best restaurants in L.A. overall—and for the first time ever, it's participating in Dine LA. Here, Koreatown essentials like bibimbap and doenjang jigae (bean paste stew) are executed at the highest level; both dishes are available on the $25 Dine LA menu. The $35 all-day dinner menu, designed for sharing, also includes two of Soban's signature dishes: braised black cod and galbi jjim. For $11 more, a party of two can also go to town on their famous soy-marinated raw crab, which I think is the best of its kind in Los Angeles.
