Driving down Los Angeles’s winding Melrose Avenue, you’ll find an interesting variety of sights and cultural enclaves on both sides of the street, which cuts from Virgil Village to the east to West Hollywood to the west. Much like Pico or Wilshire, this
iconic stretch has its own way of representing unique portraits of Los Angeles’s dining culture. Here are the best restaurants to try along and around Melrose Avenue, organized from west to east. Restaurants entering this round include enduring vegan Mexican hotspot Gracias Madre, Iranian breakfast burrito specialist Söbuneh, Nancy Silverton icons Chi Spacca and Osteria Mozza, locally loved Mario’s Peruvian and Seafood, Jersey transplant Alfalfa, the low-key power lunch destination of Little Fish Melrose Hill, and Venezuelan dessert cafe Chainsaw, as well as the Melrose Avenue–adjacent Roshona Bilash and Bar 109.
