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Destroyer
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The Good Sort (5 Doyers St.) — At this inventive vegan cafe, congee bowls come in a turmeric and coconut rendition with champagne-poached cranberries.
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Sqirl (720 N. Virgil Ave.) — The cult Silver Lake hipster vortex is where avant-garde daytime bowl-centered food and warm-ish salads have reached their apotheosis.
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Destroyer (3578 Hayden Ave.) — This cerebral Culver City breakfast-and-lunch joint is even further ahead of the curve in its Instagrammable dish presentation.
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Odys + Penelope
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Uncle Boon's (7 Spring St.) — The couple behind this Nolita spot met while working at Per Se. The cozy Thai restaurant turns out rotisserie birds that have critics swooning.
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Cassia (1314 Seventh St.) — New York Times' Pete Wells gave this Vietnamese-French place by a Santa Monica couple three stars in his first non-NYC review in September.
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Odys + Penelope (127 S. La Brea Ave.) — The brainchild of a charming husband-and-wife team, this midcity stunner is Cassia's less-heralded Brazilian-American equal.
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Officine Brera
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L'Amico (849 Sixth Ave.) — Chef Laurent Tourondel’s rustic ovens turn out pizza and pasta (e.g., agnolotti with braised oxtail and horseradish) enjoyed by Steven Spielberg.
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Bestia (2121 E. Seventh Place) — The contemporary Italian country cuisine mecca with the chic industrial loft vibe has a strong emphasis on expertly handmade pastas.
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Officine Brera (1331 E. Sixth St.) — Bestia's under-the-radar rustic Italian analogue is a few blocks away in DTLA's Arts District. Order the off-menu chickpea flour crepe.
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Shibumi
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Suzuki (114 West 47th St.) — Fermentation fans already are raving about the black sesame miso marinated tofu at this new underground kaiseki palace that opened in April.
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Baroo (5706 Santa Monica Blvd.) — Pilgrims have their minds blown by chef Kwang Uh's experimentations with fermentation at the low-key Hollywood strip mall spot.
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Shibumi (815 S. Hill St.) — Those same besotted pilgrims should visit David Schlosser at his fermentation-fixated izakaya beneath a parking garage in DTLA.
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P.Y.T.
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Nix (72 University Place) — Chef John Fraser and ex-Conde Nast-er James Truman teamed for an indulgent, plant-based boite that's attracted Woody Allen and Jennifer Lawrence.
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Commissary (3515 Wilshire Blvd.) — Chef Roy Choi, who made his name by being meat-minded, has repented with a new-school, vegetable-focused menu in Koreatown.
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P.Y.T. (400 S. Main St.) — Acclaimed chef Josef Centeno (Baco Mercat) has turned his carnivorous attention in downtown L.A. to inventive, satiating plant-based fare.
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Here's Looking At You
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Empellon (510 Madison Ave.) — Alex Stupak, who gained notoriety for superlative tacos at three Village spots, opened a more upscale midtown restaurant in March.
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Trois Familia (3510 Sunset Blvd.) — This time, Jon Shook and Vinny Dotolo’s latest high-octane scene for vivid flavor-making is a French- Mexican combo in Silver Lake.
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Here's Looking At You (3901 W. Sixth St.) — Shook-Dotolo protege Jonathan Whitener's K-town spot wields French, Vietnamese and Mexican influences.
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Grand Central Market
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Eataly (101 Liberty St.) — This Wall Street offshoot of the Madison Park mecca where Mario Batali and Joe Bastianich are partners has eight stations and five dining spots.
AND IF YOU'VE ALREADY BEEN TO L.A.'S
Gjusta (320 Sunset Ave.) — Venice's boisterous, slightly scruffy purveyor-of-all-gourmet-things without enough seating has become a lodestar of gentrified appeal.
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Grand Central Market (317 S. Broadway) — DTLA's revivified, busy food hall melds upmarket breads (Clark Street), eggs (Eggslut) and smoked fish (Wexler's).
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