The 18 Best Restaurants In Silver Lake - Los Angeles - The Infatuation

"Manila Inasal started as a family catering operation in the Philippines serving aluminum trays at birthdays and baptisms. These days, it’s a cute restaurant in a Silver Lake plaza. We love a good come-up story, but we love Manila’s fun riffs on Filipino classics even more. Stewed taro and coconut milk are reinvented as a dip with housemade focaccia, and crab-stuffed tortang talong comes splotched with aioli and fish roe. The portions are suited for parties, so plan to do some Tetris-ing to fit everything on the table. On the weekends, there’s live music: sometimes local musicians, other times the owner’s dad strumming a guitar under a neon sign." - sylvio martins, brant cox, cathy park