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L.A.'s best-designed restaurants
In LA, a restaurant's menu isn't the only thing used to attract diners—interior design also tops lists of why people choose to visit one establishment over another. Here are some of the most divinely designed.
The Hollywood branch just opened, as will more, but this Brentwood branch was the first Katsuya designed by Philippe Starck.
Wolfgang Puck teamed with famed New York architect Richard Meier for his A-list steakhouse.
One of several Dodd Mitchell projects scattered throughout LA, Katana stands out for making natural materials like wood and stone look grand and almost imperial.
Along with chef/owner Suzanne Goin's other restaurant Lucques, renowned LA designer Barbara Barry is the woman behind A.O.C.'s interiors.
Kelly Wearstler designed Santa Monica's Viceroy Hotel, which includes this breezy and elegant restaurant.
Also designed by Starck, Jeffrey Chodorow's Latin-Asian fusion restaurant in the Mondrian Hotel still attracts a steady stream of celebrity clientele.
Thomas Schoos is known for his dark, slightly Gothic eye (see Citizen Smith and Table 8), but for this restaurant at the top of Santa Monica's Huntley Hotel, he went light and beach breezy.
Chef Kerry Simon commissioned hip Canadian design duo Yabu Pushelberg for his LA outpost. They were also behind the rest of Sofitel LA's redesign.
