Top 10 Restaurants that I ate at outside of Los Angeles in 2023:
1. Torrisi - NY
2. Shabour - Paris
3. Bistrot des Tournelles - Paris
4. Clamato - Paris
5. Teruzushi - Tokyo
6. Butagumi - Tokyo
7. Via Carota - NY
8. Gold Pig - Seoul
9. Raf’s - NY
10. L’ottava Nota - Palermo
My list of the best restaurants in LA (that I ate at in 2023)
1. Morihiro
2. Kato
3. Dunsmoor
4. Funke
5. Bavel
6. chi Spacca
7. Sonagi
8. Antico Nuovo
9. Found Oyster
10. Bistro Na’s
Here is my year end list of the best restaurants I ate at in 2023. Alphabetical order. Save this post. Share this post. It’s a cheat code of where to eat in LA, NY, Paris, Tokyo, Palermo and more. Pick a spot, call a friend and go get something good to eat this weekend.
Top 4 things I ate in the last week…
1. Wild White Sea Bass from Stir Crazy
2. Koobideh from Raffi’s Place
3. Jimmy Nardello’s from Funke
4. Sheralyn’s Derby Pie from Queen St.
There’s a gaping hole in the LA dining scene and it’s open for the taking. We could easily support 5-10 great steakhouses in this city, but currently there are only two. Chi Spacca and Capo.
Over the past week, I’ve had a lot of friends tell me they were disappointed when I declared chi Spacca as the best steakhouse in LA without mentioning any others.
Please don’t tell me that Musso and Frank is good. It’s not. I don’t want to hear any more about these Michelin star steakhouses being good. They are not. Miss me with all the Mastro’s and Steak 48 recos. They’re both trash.