4 Culver City Restaurants Ranked Among 101 Best In Los Angeles

CULVER CITY, CA — Four Culver City restaurants are among the 101 best in the Los Angeles area, according to a new ranking released this week.

The Los Angeles Times' annual list of the 101 Best Restaurants in Los Angeles includes everything from modest holes in the wall to buzzy Michelin-starred spots.

"We crisscrossed the region for months, checking in on stalwarts and swapping notes on potentially overlooked contenders," the Times wrote.

Here are the Culver City spots, along with their rank and excerpts from the Times' blurbs:

Fat + Flour — 40

"The scent of butter and sugar grips you as soon as you walk through the doors of Nicole Rucker’s Culver City cafe. Inside the pastry case are slices of pie with chunks of sunset-colored peaches spilling from the middle, wedges of custard pie with burnished meringue tops and mountains of cookies and brownies alongside cheddar and chive scones."

Dear John's — 49

"Here, the perfect creamed spinach exists; chicken parm gets the chicken Kiev treatment, with warm mozzarella that oozes from the center; tater tots are made 'bougie' with petite dollops of caviar; and the chopped salad contains an entire deli case of ingredients."

Vespertine — 50

"In April Jordan Kahn reopened Vespertine, his polarizing modernist restaurant that employs the arts — theater, music, painting, dance, perfumery; I could even argue for literature in the description of courses — in ways that no other restaurant does in California, possibly the world."

Sobar — 80

"At Sobar, Masato Midorikawa’s Culver City restaurant, your bamboo sieve of noodles comes with a set of instructions. First, taste the noodles bare. Next, sprinkle some yuzu salt onto one bite. Then try matcha salt on another. Only then should you dip your noodles in the provided bowl of cold or hot broth."

Check out the full list of 101 Best Restaurants in Los Angeles at the LA Times.