All the New Restaurant Openings to Know in Los Angeles

The city’s dining scene continues to grow even as operators face stunning challenges related to ongoing impacts from the 2020 coronavirus pandemic, the 2023 Hollywood labor strikes, the 2025 Palisades and Eaton fires, and systemic slowdowns affecting the entire global food supply. This roundup features a running list of all the latest openings you should know about across the Southland. For Eater editors’ curation of the best new restaurants in Los Angeles, check out the heatmap, and for a guide to the best restaurants in the city, look to the Eater 38.

Alphabet Bar and Grill

Palisades Village has reopened following the January 2025 fires and, within it, Alphabet Bar and Grill has debuted. Opened by the H.Wood Group with chef Timothy Hollingsworth at the helm, the restaurant serves a menu reminiscent of the lineup at Houston’s.

Find grilled cheese and tomato soup, cheeseburgers, hamachi crudo, and rotisserie chicken, plus cocktail options such as dirty or dry martini service and a classic Old Fashioned. Finish meals with sweets such as lemon olive oil cake, a caramel sundae, and strawberry shortcake.

K Bakery

After the Palisades Fire forced the closure of K Bakery’s Highlands Plaza location, the pastry shop has reopened at Palisades Village.

At the shop, owner Kim Kedeshian offers baked goods that include chocolate chip–dotted scones, sourdough bread, croissants, and frosted cinnamon buns, along with chicken pot pie and soups. K Bakery joins restaurants including the recently opened Alphabet Bar and Grill and the forthcoming Spacca Tutto at Palisades Village.

Met Her at a Bar

Popular Mid-City restaurant Met Her at a Bar heads west with a new location along Main Street in Santa Monica. Operated by the team behind Met Him at a Bar and the Night We Met, the all-day spot serves breakfast and brunch of omelets, waffles, and chilaquiles until 2:30 p.m. daily, alongside a lunch menu with sandwiches, salads, pizza, and pasta that kicks in at 11 a.m.

Dinner, served from 4 p.m., offers spicy tuna atop crispy rice, grilled branzino, and chicken Parmesan.

Sticky Rice Venice

Los Angeles Thai favorite Sticky Rice has opened its long-awaited Venice location just blocks from the beach on Rose Avenue. The restaurant offers the same menu as its other outposts with panang curry fries, khao soi, pad see ew, and tom yum noodle soup.

For now, Sticky Rice is open only for takeout and operates limited hours from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m., Tuesday through Sunday.

Egg Boat

Egg Boat brings a new casual option for cheese-laden Georgian khachapuri to Van Nuys in the San Fernando Valley. A slim menu offers the classic khachapuri crowned with two eggs, mozzarella, and feta in a freshly baked bread boat, along with a cheese calzone made from the same dough.

A handful of sandwiches are also available, such as a wagyu cheesesteak and pastrami sandwich.

Mistral

Restaurateur Jonah Freedman (Greekman’s, Freedman’s) has taken over the Valley French institution, Mistral, after its previous owner, Henri Abergel, retired. After a brief closure, Freedman has reopened the restaurant alongside business partner and culinary director Josh Migdal with a refreshed interior and updated menu.

Look forward to Mistral’s take on bistro classics, including French onion soup, escargot, and steak frites. Wine curated by sommelier Julia Djaoui is available, alongside a full cocktail menu.

Bobo Thai

Taiwan-based restaurant group TTFB, which is also behind Century City’s Very Thai, just expanded its Los Angeles presence with the opening of Bobo Thai in Silver Lake. The restaurant takes over the former Bar Moruno space, serving a handful of pad Thai preparations alongside rice bowls and Bangkok street food–style bites.

Pad Thai options span The 1938, a more traditional take on the noodle dish, alongside the chile–infused Hot Stuff and the Two Kings, which fuses tom yum with pad Thai. The rest of the menu includes crispy noodles tossed in yellow curry; tom yum soup crowned with crispy enoki mushrooms; pad see ew with pork, tofu, and broccoli; and green curry eggplant fries.

Onul Coffee

During the daytime, Echo Park’s Bar Bandini houses Onul Coffee, a Korean-inspired cafe. Classic drinks like drip coffee, a cappuccino, and vanilla latte are available, along with specialties such as the Pearilla with perilla leaf and elderflower tonic water, and the Jasmine Muscat Cloud with green tea.

Onul is currently open Wednesday to Sunday, from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Doner Haus

New York’s Doner Haus has landed on the West Coast for the first time with a location in South Los Angeles. The menu spans classic doner sandwiches packed with chicken or beef, plus cabbage, lettuce, tomatoes, and garlic sauce, alongside a vegetable-filled doner wrap and doner burrito with rice.

While most of the East Coast locations only offer takeout, Los Angeles’s Doner Haus has a full dining room to dig into doner, baklava, and fries on site. All the meat at Doner Haus is halal.

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Loto

Loto operates out of the Elysian Heights home of Julian Scharman and Stephanie Hong, serving coffee drinks made with beans sourced from Mexico.

The small menu offers espresso drinks including cortado and flat whites, plus cold brew, matcha, and the specialty La Tormenta with cold brew, oleo saccharum, and tonic water. Loto also hosts coffee tastings for $15 per person, which include two single-origin pour-overs; reservations are available over Instagram or in person at the counter.

Kasa Rin

Tucked on the third floor of a Little Tokyo building, Kasa Rin serves udon pasta, crudo, and karaage sets as well as drinking snacks and plenty of sake and wine.

The menu spans dishes such as Hokkaido scallop carpaccio, cucumber salad, a smoked salmon tart, and mentaiko cream udon, plus wagyu beef skewers, yellowtail “wings,” and ikura scallion cream cheese spread. Dishes can be paired with drinks including umeshu, sparkling sake, Sapporo, and skin-contact wine.

Lucky’s Steakhouse

Tony steakhouse Lucky’s, which has locations in Montecito, Malibu, and New York, just expanded to the Arts District. The menu at the new location mirrors the others’ offerings with Caesar salad, pan-roasted half chicken, lobster tail, and a number of steaks and chops, including filet mignon, porterhouse, and lamb chops.

Look out for daily specials including a Tuesday chicken Parmesan and Saturday prime rib.

Stumptown Coffee Roasters

Two years after shuttering its Arts District outpost, Portland-based Stumptown Coffee Roasters is back with a new Los Angeles flagship.

The coffee company opened its latest Los Angeles cafe in late August in the historic Lincoln Heights building that once housed the Starland Theatre, which dates back to the early 1900s. The cafe serves Stumptown’s usual lineup of drinks such as cortados, single-origin pour overs, mochas, and cold brew, along with a Lincoln Heights exclusive passion fruit espresso tonic and horchata cold foam shakerato.

A small retail shelf also offers Stumptown beans and Starland location-exclusive merchandise for purchase.

Mokja

Mokja, a new Korean cafe and market from chef Debbie Lee and Frank and Michelle La of Be Bright Coffee, is now open in the space behind Lee’s Highland Park modern pocha Yi Cha. Mokja offers a build-your-own instant ramen bar, sandwiches, grab-and-go banchan, and cafe drinks from 2024 U.S.

Barista Champion Frank La. On the menu, find options including Spam musubi; PBL & T with pork belly, tomato muchim, lettuce, and kimchi mayonnaise; and a braised oxtail hand pie, plus drinks like a banana matcha latte and omija sparkler.

Baja Mar Taco

Pico Rivera’s Baja Mar Taco just expanded to Alhambra with a new location for its fish tacos as well as other Mexican classics.

The fried fish or shrimp tacos, crowned with the usual suspects of shredded cabbage and pico de gallo, remain crowd favorites, alongside shrimp tostadas and camaron enchilado burritos. Also find asada tacos, cabeza-topped sopes, al pastor nachos, and beef taquitos.

Milk Brew

Pasadena’s new coffee shop, Milk Brew, specializes in its eponymous drink, a coffee that gets steeped in milk overnight and served cold. The milk brew is available with a handful of milk options, including whole milk, oat milk, corn milk, and banana milk, plus flavors such as vanilla, strawberry, and lavender.

The rest of the menu features classic espresso drinks such as a macchiato, cortado, and cappuccino. The coffee shop uses beans from Black and White Roasters for its drinks.

Bangkok Broth House

Orange County Thai destination, Bangkok Broth House, expanded to Alhambra with a new destination for noodles and broth. At the restaurant, find classic boat noodles along with a version with short rib, khao soi, and wonton noodle soup in a clear broth.

Starters span fried tofu, fried wings, steamed mussels, and crispy wontons.

Good Alley Reserve

The team behind Alhambra dumpling destination, Good Alley, has opened the more upscale Good Alley Reserve in Arcadia. Find favorites from the original location such as pork-filled soup dumplings and a Chinese burger wrapped in a flaky bun, alongside Reserve specialties like black truffle Jidori chicken and sweet-and-sour crispy pork.

In contrast to the more airy, casual progenitor, Good Alley Reserve leans into darker woods accented by a black marble bar and tall ceilings.

Oolong Tea Project

Taiwan-based tea chain Oolong Tea Project lands in the U.S. for the first time with a location in Rowland Heights.

The famed chain serves drinks including roasted oolong tea, hojicha milk tea, and passion fruit green tea, plus cheese foam-topped options such as the cheese foam spring oolong tea. Teas can be modified with the addition of boba or oolong tea jelly.

Early days have seen considerable lines, so be prepared to wait during busy hours.