Menu Exclusives Offered During dineL.A. Restaurant Week
Dine on specially priced three-course menus for lunch and dinner, along with exclusive dishes during dineL.A. restaurant week, Jan. 19-Feb. 1.
By Christina Xenos
It’s baaaaaaack! Your chance to get in on 14 full days of indulging in the best food L.A. has to offer. During dineL.A. Restaurant Week, you can discover more than 300 top Los Angeles restaurants, including newcomers Alimento, Butchers & Barbers, and Gracias Madre.
If you’re a veteran and are familiar with the drill, know that this time around things are working a little bit differently. In a twist on the regular discounted $15, $20, or $25 lunch menus and $30, $40, or $50 dinner menus, restaurants have been challenged to either create an exclusive menu item, or offer a menu that is 15% off the existing price.
Here are highlights of some of the exclusive dineL.A. dishes you can enjoy for two weeks only:
Abigaile, Hermosa Beach ($50/pp, four-course dinner)
- Okonomiyaki with octopus, cabbage, sweet mayo, egg, bonito.
Wildcraft, Culver City ($40/pp, three-course dinner)
- Cold Smoked Duck Breast with winter caponata, toasted hazelnuts, apple balsamic.
- Pork Ossobuco with stone ground polenta, local mushrooms, apple mostarda.
RivaBella, West Hollywood ($20/pp, three-course lunch; $50/pp, three-course dinner)
- Short Rib Agnolotti with crispy kale and lemon.
Plan Check Kitchen + Bar, Fairfax & Downtown ($20/pp, three-course lunch)
- Goat Meatloaf with harissa-ketchup glaze, served with rutabaga mash and goat creamed greens.
L’Assiette Steak Frites, West Hollywood ($15/pp lunch; $30/pp, three-course dinner)
- Sandwich de Bifteck served open face on a baguette with choice of salad or pommes frites.
- Salade Maison au Bifteck with culotte steak, little gem salad, citrus balsamic vinaigrette, and roasted goat cheese.
Culina Modern Italian, Beverly Hills-adjacent ($25/pp, three-course lunch; $50/pp, three-course dinner)
Full menu is exclusive at Culina Modern Italian. Highlights include:
- Bucatini with rapine, eggplant, taggiasca olives, basil, pine nuts and toma brusca (lunch).
- Lasagna with braised lamb, red kale, wild mushrooms and basil ricotta (dinner).
Gracias Madre, West Hollywood ($20/pp, three-course lunch; $30/pp, three-course dinner)
- Winter Empanadas: root vegetables, kale, tomato habanero jam, cilantro tamarind chutney, cumin lentils (lunch and dinner).
BLD, La Brea ($30/pp, three-course dinner)
- Lamb Meatballs with anson mills polenta, tomato confit, pecorino sardo.
Blue Plate Oysterette – Los Angeles, Fairfax ($25/pp, two-course lunch; $50/pp three-course dinner)
- Crab Roll with Georges Bank crab meat served on a hoagie roll (lunch).
Butchers & Barbers, Hollywood, ($40/pp, three-course dinner)
- Crispy skin duck breast with slow cooked black kale, curry butternut squash purée, roasted onion duck jus.
- Orzo, roasted Brussels sprouts, currants, apple and anchovy chili.
Cafe Gratitude, Venice and Larchmont ($20/pp, three-course lunch; $30/pp, three-course dinner)
- “I Am Resolved” Bowl with black-eyes pea “Hoppin’ John” southern black-eyed peas, sprouted probiotic brown rice, pureed garnet yams and citrus collards (lunch and dinner).
Night + Market, West Hollywood ($40/pp, three-course dinner)
- Yum Som Oh Boran, pomelo salad in the style of ayutthaya with wok-roasted coconut shards, fried shallots, peanuts, dried shrimp from samut sakhorn, onion, cilantro, chile, lim, garlic, and fish sauce. Comes “medium” spicy.
Stir Market, Fairfax ($30/pp, three-course dinner)
- Merguez sausage flatbreat.
- Salmon en papillote.
- Rotisserie chicken papardelle.
- Smokey eggplant sweet potato lasagna.
- Blood orange sorbet.
- Croisant bread pudding.
Celestino Ristorante and Bar, Pasadena ($25/pp, three-course lunch; $40/pp, three-course dinner)
- Risotto con radicchio, prosciutto e mascarpone (lunch).
- Sogliola alla pazza con misticanza di verdure (dinner).
Acabar in Hollywood is going all out with dineL.A. menu exclusives. Here is a sneak peek of their specials:
Find all participating restaurants/menus: discoverlosangeles.com
