There is no better enjoyment than a great restaurant alive with conversation, smooth service, and delicious food. The most memorable meals are always complete with great food, great drinks, and great people in a great environment with impeccable service. If you are looking for the best dining options in Los Angeles, be sure to check the following dining establishments which are considered to be the best restaurants in L.A.

Valentino

Valentino is a very good choice for a really special dinner, particularly if you are passionate about wine. Renowned as one of the country's top Italian restaurants, Valentino has a truly awe-inspiring wine list. With nearly 2,800 labels on 130 pages, backed by a cellar overflowing with nearly 100,000 bottles, this restaurant is just heaven for wine-lovers. For more than 3 decades the world-renowned restaurateur Piero Selvaggio has greeted guests and helped guide them through this impressive wine list. In the 1970s, he introduced L.A. to his exquisite modern Italian cuisine, and he continues to impress guests with dishes like a timballo of wild mushrooms with rich Parmigiano-Reggiano-saffron fonduta, squid ink-tinted risotto with Maine lobster, a memorable osso buco, and sautéed branzino with lemon emulsion. A rich Barolo is a perfect accompaniment to rosemary-infused roasted rabbit; and the fantastically fragrant risotto with white truffles is probably one of the most magnificent dishes you can have. Please, be aware that jackets are required in this elegant dining room.

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Grace

This lovely place run by chef-owner Neal Fraser offers a modern American cuisine with an emphasis on local artisan ingredients. He mixes textures and contrasting flavors in dishes like risotto with pumpkin, sea urchin and sweet shrimp; a hunk of braised pork belly atop purple sticky rice with figs; and wild boar tenderloin in violet mustard sauce. The menu changes regularly, but you might find a roast beet salad with grilled radicchio and onion marmalade, pumpkin risotto with sea urchin and sweet Maine shrimp, and a beautiful plate of foie gras served with pistachio-cocoa nib crust and a dab of huckleberry compote. Upscale interpretations of nostalgic favorites like maple-caramel doughnuts, cookies and milk highlight the irresistible dessert menu. When speaking about desserts, try a sublime warm Cajeta bread pudding topped with pumpkin-seed ice-cream.

The dining room features high ceilings, well-spaced tables and soothing earth colors creating a relaxed and quiet atmosphere.

Hatfield's

Discover the true spirit of California cuisine celebrated in this elegant dining room with a wraparound patio. Chef Quinn Hatfield specializes in market-driven dishes like Arctic char in a leek froth, and date- and mint-crusted rack of lamb following a whimsical, not-to-be-missed California-style croque madame (a delightful play on the typical Parisian sandwich - hamachi and proscuitto sandwiched between buttery brioche toast, topped with a sunny-side-up quail egg). The French-California menu isn't very big but it changes every week, not completely, but enough that frequent diners can find something new and appealing.

Delicious desserts are created by Quinn's wife, Karen, whose culinary masterpieces include chocolate-peanut butter truffle cake and sugar- and spice-dusted beignets paired with a frothy shot of milkshake. Tender, yeasty puffs dusted with sugar and cinnamon are served warm with a crock of Venezuelan chocolate fondue for dipping, and a petit shot of sassafras milkshake. Her buttermilk panna cotta has an entrancing delicacy.

Josie

The interior design of this high-end restaurant is done in understated taupe hues. The mixture of the rustic and the refined is evident in every room of this cosmopolitan establishment with generously spaced tables. With the sand-blasted wooden ceiling beams, the modern skylight, the hand-crafted stone hearth and the tailored lines of the furnishings, the sophisticated décor is a perfect palette for Le Balch's imaginative menu featuring dishes like "campfire trout" cooked in a cast-iron skillet, venison ragout, and signature buffalo burger with truffle fries. Her passion for quality is readily apparent in her ingredients: the hazelnuts in her roasted beet salad are organically grown in Oregon, the wild rice is hand-harvested and the elk comes from a ranch in the Rockies.

Chef Josie's uncomplicated menu clearly reflects her healthy approach to eating as well as her passion for flavor-rich combinations. She has developed an original mix of classic cuisine and comfort foods, such as the enticing Pan Seared Duck with Savory Hawthorn Berry Sauce to the homey rib-eye steak with Pop's Peppercorn Sauce.

Koi

Experience superb Asian fusion cuisine at Koi, one of the hottest restaurants in Los Angeles where celebrities are arriving nightly for addictive dishes. The exotic minimalist interior design done in earthen hues and incorporating feng shui elements includes several intimate spaces, both indoors and outdoors. The most popular are the horseshoe booths on the back patio amid Buddha statues and candlelight. This trendy restaurant satisfies its demanding crowd with well-executed dishes such as crispy rice topped with spicy tuna, Kobe beef carpaccio with crispy shiitake mushrooms and yuzu vinaigrette, and sesame-crusted lobster tail. Here baked crab rolls with edible rice paper are just fantastic, not to mention delicious tuna tartare and avocado on crispy wontons, the yellowtail carpaccio delicately flavored with grape-seed oil, and black cod bronzed with misto exploding with sweet falvor.

Spago Beverly Hills

One of the top-rated restaurants in L.A., Spago Beverly Hills is the famed flagship restaurant of Wolfgang Puck, Mr. Celebrity Chef himself. Now Lee Hefter, a talented henchman of Wolfgang Puck, presides over the kitchen delivering the culinary sophistication to an upscale Beverly Hills clientele, including the biggest Hollywood stars. The illustrious restaurant, serving mostly modern L.A. classic, centers on a buzzing outdoor courtyard shaded by 100-year-old olive trees. From an elegantly appointed table inside, you can glimpse the exhibition kitchen and, on rare occasions, the affable owner greeting his famous friends. But the most coveted tables are to be found on a romantically twinkle-lit outdoor patio. The daily-changing menu offers things like four-cheese pizza topped with truffles, côte de boeuf with Armagnac-peppercorn sauce, Cantonese-style duck, and some traditional Austrian specialties. Acclaimed pastry chef Sherry Yard works magic with everything from an ethereal apricot soufflé to Austrian kaiserschmarrn (crème fraîche pancakes with fruit).

Michael's

Opened by Michael McCarty in 1979, Michael's Santa Monica was an instant success and still remains one of the most acclaimed and popular restaurants in the United States. Michael's is renowned for its classic contemporary cuisine as well as the highest-quality ingredients, including only the finest fresh seasonal products, often sourced from area greenmarkets. The extensive menu changes seasonally and constantly evolves with new ideas and ingredients. But you can always find things like grilled Mediterranean loup de mer with chorizo and mussels, oven-roasted Channel spiny lobster with garlic-fennel potato puree, or grilled pork chop with Calvados apple pan sauce. But the real specialty at Michael's is its famous warm mushroom salad, tossed with crumbled goat cheese, watercress, caramelized onion and mustard-sage vinaigrette.

Wine aficionados will be pleased to find a world of outstanding, intriguing selections on the award-winning wine list, which includes more than eight hundred labels from California, France, Italy, and other wine-growing regions—as well as the latest vintages from The Malibu Vineyard, McCarty's own winery featuring grapes grown on the hillsides surrounding his Pacific-view Malibu home.

The dining room features contemporary art by Michael's wife, Kim McCarty, and the restaurant garden is one of the most romantic spots in the city.