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These are sentiments our late restaurant 101 restaurants we love list, Jonathan Gold, championed time and time again in his restaurant reviews and in his best-restaurants lists that he produced for The Times. Using last year’s list—his last—as a guide, food writers Jenn Harris, Andrea Chang and Amy Scattergood tried to introduce the new and fill in the gaps where appropriate to reflect the city as a whole. We hope to continue Jonathan’s great legacy and to help guide readers in finding delicious food around Los Angeles.

Find a restaurant 189 by Dominique Ansel A. Downtown From Chinatown to the Arts District, from the 110 Freeway to the Los Angeles River, explore 19 of this year’s best restaurants. The overwhelming popularity of Bavel may have a lot to do with its grilled octopus or with Genevieve Gergis’ date crème brûlée. But I’m guessing it’s the hummus that keeps Ori Menashe up at night. It seems odd to remember that Bestia has been open only six years, since the restaurant seems so integral to Los Angeles restaurant culture. Maybe it’s because so much of what Ori Menashe and Genevieve Gergis offer on a regular basis is now de rigueur in a certain class of restaurant: the house-made salumi, the handmade pasta, the wood-fired pizza, the industrial design, the natural wine list.

Instead of trying to explain what contemporary Mexican cuisine can look like in Los Angeles to visitors, just take them to Broken Spanish. When people ask where to eat in downtown, my usual response is Josef Centeno. Because to eat at one of his four downtown restaurants is to, in a sense, taste the entirety of Los Angeles. Before there was Bestia, diners ventured to the Arts District for crusty baguettes, proper charcuterie boards and excellent wine at this classic bistro. Then Tony Esnault came on as executive chef, and the Frenchman, who cooked under Alain Ducasse, brought his thoughtful French-California cooking with him. Wedged into a corner of the Freehand L.