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Chef Michael Cimarusti's two-Michelin-star room on Melrose is the city's benchmark for fine dining, immaculate seafood, gracious service, and a calm, elegant dining room.
Go for the full tasting menu with a wine pairing, this is a kitchen at the top of its craft and the menu shows off pristine seafood at its best. Trust the room and settle in for the long, lovely arc of it.
Reserve weeks in advance for a weekend and treat it as the occasion it is. Arrive unhurried, the meal is a multi-hour experience meant to be savored.
Nursing one martini in that room, with the lights of LA below, is the most elegant free-ish end to an evening the city offers.
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