The Los Angeles Dining Map is Being Redrawn by Its Biggest Celebrity Chef Names

Los Angeles has always been a city where the chef is as much the draw as the food, and its current crop of celebrity-chef restaurants proves the trend shows no sign of slowing. From Beverly Hills institutions that have anchored the city’s fine-dining reputation for decades to newer arrivals downtown, these are the restaurants worth booking for the name on the menu as much as what’s on the plate — a scene covered more broadly in our complete guide to Haute Living Los Angeles.

Wolfgang Puck — Spago Beverly Hills & CUT

No chef looms larger over Los Angeles dining than Wolfgang Puck, and his two flagship Beverly Hills restaurants remain the city’s benchmark. Spago Beverly Hills continues to serve its seasonal Californian menu with Puck himself still known to make table visits, while CUT, housed inside the Beverly Wilshire, A Four Seasons Hotel, approaches its 20th anniversary in 2026 with a new early-evening prix-fixe program called The First CUT. Between the two, Puck’s Beverly Hills footprint remains the closest thing LA has to a culinary institution.

Neighborhood: Beverly Hills | Best For: The LA Dining Institution

Nobu Matsuhisa — Nobu Los Angeles

Photo Credit: Mark Hanson

Nobu Matsuhisa’s West Hollywood restaurant, officially named Nobu Los Angeles, remains a defining stop for the chef’s global sushi empire, alongside its sister location on the Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu. The tiradito and black cod with miso remain the dishes that built Matsuhisa’s reputation decades ago, and both LA locations continue to draw the kind of crowd that made Nobu a global brand in the first place.

Neighborhood: West Hollywood (with a second location in Malibu) | Best For: Celebrity Sushi Institution

David Chang — Majordomo

David Chang’s Chinatown restaurant remains open under his Momofuku Group, though James Bailey took over as executive chef in July 2025 — a kitchen change worth knowing about rather than a sign of any slowdown. The restaurant’s bold, family-style approach to modern American cooking with strong Korean and Southeast Asian influences continues to make it one of the more distinctive celebrity-chef dining rooms in the city.

Neighborhood: Chinatown | Best For: Bold, Shareable Dining

Nancy Silverton — Osteria Mozza & Pizzeria Mozza

Sharing a complex on Highland Avenue, Nancy Silverton’s twin restaurants remain among the most respected Italian dining destinations in the city. Osteria Mozza retained its Michelin star in the 2025 guide, while Pizzeria Mozza continues to serve the wood-fired pizza that helped define LA’s modern pizza scene.

Neighborhood: Hollywood/Highland Avenue | Best For: Michelin-Starred Italian

Curtis Stone — Gwen

Curtis Stone’s Hollywood restaurant, a Michelin-starred butcher shop and dining room built around whole-animal butchery, remains open on Sunset Boulevard, though a Westside relocation announced in mid-2025 for early 2026 appears to be running behind schedule. 

Neighborhood: Hollywood (Sunset Blvd)| Best For: Whole-Animal Butchery Dining

José Andrés — Bazaar Meat

José Andrés’s LA presence has shifted downtown following the closure of his original Beverly Hills restaurants at the former SLS Beverly Hills, now Waldorf Astoria Beverly Hills. His current LA restaurant, Bazaar Meat, occupies the sixth floor of The Grand LA/Conrad Los Angeles, bringing his signature theatrical steakhouse format to downtown alongside sister restaurants San Laurel and Agua Viva in the same hotel.

Neighborhood: Downtown LA (The Grand LA/Conrad Los Angeles) | Best For: Downtown Spectacle Dining

Roy Choi — Alibi Room

The chef credited with launching the modern food truck movement through Kogi BBQ still runs the trucks, now in their 17th year, alongside his sit-down restaurant Alibi Room, which serves both Kogi and Chego menus in the Culver City/West LA area.

Neighborhood: Culver City/West LA | Best For: The Food Truck Movement’s Sit-Down Home

Jon & Vinny’s

Jon Shook and Vinny Dotolo’s approachable Italian-American restaurants have expanded to five confirmed locations across Fairfax, Brentwood, Studio City, Beverly Hills, and the Slauson corridor, with a sixth location in Calabasas reportedly pending. The formula — excellent pasta, pizza, and an unpretentious atmosphere — has made it one of the more consistently beloved celebrity-chef concepts in the city.

Neighborhood: Multiple, including Fairfax and Beverly Hills | Best For: Approachable Celebrity-Chef Dining

Suzanne Goin — A.O.C.

Suzanne Goin’s Third Street restaurant remains one of LA’s defining small-plates destinations, now the only A.O.C. location following the August 2025 closure of its Brentwood outpost after sixteen years. The Mediterranean-inflected wine bar format that Goin helped pioneer in LA continues to draw loyal regulars.

Neighborhood: Third Street | Best For: LA’s Original Small-Plates Destination

Michael Cimarusti — Providence

Providence holds one of only two three-Michelin-star ratings in Los Angeles history, earned in 2025, making Michael Cimarusti’s Melrose Avenue seafood restaurant one of the most significant fine-dining achievements in the city’s culinary history.

Neighborhood: Melrose Avenue | Best For: The City’s Pinnacle Fine-Dining Achievement

Josiah Citrin — Mélisse & Citrin

Josiah Citrin’s Santa Monica restaurants, the two-Michelin-starred Mélisse and the one-starred Citrin, anchor his growing culinary footprint, which now extends to Charcoal Venice and a new Charcoal Sunset location that opened on the Sunset Strip in August 2025.

Neighborhood: Santa Monica (with Charcoal locations in Venice and on Sunset) | Best For: Multi-Concept Michelin Pedigree

For more of Haute Living’s Los Angeles dining coverage, see our complete guide to Haute Living Los Angeles.

FAQs

What are the best celebrity-chef restaurants in Los Angeles? The best celebrity-chef restaurants in Los Angeles include Wolfgang Puck’s Spago and CUT, Nobu Matsuhisa’s Nobu Los Angeles, David Chang’s Majordomo, and José Andrés’s Bazaar Meat at The Grand LA.

Is Bouchon Beverly Hills still open? No — Thomas Keller’s Bouchon Beverly Hills closed in 2017-2018 due to a lease dispute and has not reopened.

Where is José Andrés’s restaurant in Los Angeles now? José Andrés’s current LA restaurant, Bazaar Meat, is located at The Grand LA/Conrad Los Angeles downtown, following the closure of his original restaurants at the former SLS Beverly Hills.

Is Curtis Stone’s Maude still open? No — Maude closed permanently in September 2024; the Beverly Hills space now houses a separate bakery concept called The Pie Room.

Which Los Angeles restaurant has three Michelin stars? Providence, chef Michael Cimarusti’s Melrose Avenue seafood restaurant, holds three Michelin stars, one of only two restaurants in LA history to achieve that rating.

How many Jon & Vinny’s locations are there? Jon & Vinny’s operates five confirmed locations across Fairfax, Brentwood, Studio City, Beverly Hills, and the Slauson corridor, with a sixth reportedly planned for Calabasas.

What happened to Wolfgang Puck’s WP24 at The Ritz-Carlton, Los Angeles? WP24 has closed and been replaced by Sendero, a Latin American-inspired restaurant led by chef Hendrix Vega.

Is Roy Choi still involved with Kogi? Yes — Roy Choi remains the chief chef and co-founder behind the Kogi BBQ trucks, now in their 17th year, alongside his sit-down restaurant Alibi Room.

What is the difference between Mélisse and Citrin? Both are Josiah Citrin’s Santa Monica restaurants — Mélisse holds two Michelin stars while Citrin holds one, and Citrin has also expanded with Charcoal locations in Venice and on the Sunset Strip.

Is there only one A.O.C. location now? Yes — Suzanne Goin’s original A.O.C. on Third Street is now the only location following the August 2025 closure of the Brentwood outpost.

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