Cobras & Matadors

LA's 12 Best New Restaurants Of 2022 - Los Angeles - The Infatuation

"Considering there’s no website, reservation system, or landline (at least one that’s picked up on a regular basis), Cobras & Matadors easily wins for the most mysterious restaurant opening of the year. Or reopening, actually—the original closed in the same space in 2012. And yet, when you walk into this Spanish bistro in Beverly Grove, all you’ll be hit by is how warm and welcoming it feels. Antique tables with mismatched wooden chairs fill the dining room, and copper pots hang from the ceiling. Large groups of friends pass around plates of sweet soca cakes and buttery gambas al ajillo. Dates in the corner split succulent half-chickens. Dinners at Cobras are measured not by the hour, but by how many wine bottles are opened (it’s BYOB with a $20 flat charge). You know those quirky little neighborhood restaurants that seem to only exist in rom-coms? That's what's happening here." - brant cox, nikko duren, sylvio martins, garrett snyder