4 Restaurants to Try This Weekend in Los Angeles: May 23 | Eater LA

"While Kevin Meehan’s tasting menu restaurant Kali is under the knife, his new seafood spot down the street should be your Larchmont/Melrose dinner reservation of choice. Meehan considered this project his ode to the East Coast seafood restaurant, with much nicer touches and some LA style. Raw bites are inventive and well-portioned, like local bluefin with vadouvan or sea bream sashimi with ponzu, shiso, and wasabi — good enough to be served at Nobu. Grilled prawns in thyme butter offer the succulence of a backyard barbecue with the sweet, tender complexity of top-tier shellfish, while the lobster manicotti, properly spotted with finely chopped chives, is a cheesy, gooey mess studded with lobster chunks that serves as an ideal counterpoint to the raw fish. Finish with a syrupy salted caramel brown butter cake topped with whipped cream." - Eater Staff