The Best Dishes Eater Editors Ate This Year in Los Angeles, 2025 | Eater LA

"This year gifted Los Angeles a true blast from the past: Trois Familia popped up at the OG Petit Trois in Hollywood, transporting me to a simpler time when brunch was the most important meal of the week and there was no better place to have it than at Jon Shook, Vinny Dotolo, and Ludo Lefebvre’s cheeky, picnic-table-filled daytime restaurant in Silver Lake. At Trois Familia in the late 2010s, pillowy French toast came encased in a crispy, sandy churro coating; a taco meant to evoke a chain restaurant’s gordita eschewed shredded cheese for an acidic carrot slaw; hash brown “chilaquiles,” bedded on a bright salsa macha, were potato pavé on steroids; tres leches cake arrived studded with kaleidoscopic rainbow sprinkles. So potent was the nostalgia hit that I risked gluten-induced pain to have a few bites of the double-decker taco, arguably my favorite dish from the old spot. Steaming mashed potatoes rested inside the crisped double-tortilla fold; the carrot pico just as lip-puckering as I remembered. While Trois Familia’s return was short-lived, it felt nice to see an old friend again. — Nicole Fellah, Eater editorial manager" - Matthew Kang