"Sobar lives on a sleepy Centinela corner, and you might walk past it thinking it’s a boutique selling $80 incense. But inside is a setting built for a peaceful meal, with lo-fi music and blank canvases on the wall to zone out at. The star here is the housemade juwari soba— buckwheat noodles that are more flavorful than the usual flour-blended versions. The menu offers them in almost every format imaginable, but our favorite is the chilled dipping option that lets you go on a choose-your-own-sauce adventure or the maze noodles topped with ribeye or deep-fried scallops that you pour cold broth over." - brant cox, sylvio martins, garrett snyder, cathy park