“The first responsibility of any great restaurant is to keep you in the bubble, the soft-serve cocoon of illusion where you forget the world exists for anything but your pleasure,” wrote Jonathan Gold, the Pulitzer Prize-winning food writer who dedicated his career to Los Angeles restaurants and the people who keep them running. LA is home to fantastic food, found everywhere from romantic Old Hollywood watering holes to divine sushi hidden in strip malls to the many, many perfect tacos (if you’re visiting, the shrimp taco at Mariscos Jalisco might be out of your way, but it’s worth it). There is so much more to consume than a green juice—although here, those do go down quite smoothly.

Los Angeles, where the produce is so fresh and enticing as to induce tears and the reservation culture

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