{"id":232307,"date":"2025-09-16T22:10:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T22:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/232307\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T22:10:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T22:10:15","slug":"two-los-angeles-spots-among-the-best-new-restaurants-of-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/232307\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Los Angeles Spots Among the Best New Restaurants of 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bon App\u00e9tit just released its Best New Restaurants in America list for 2025, and two Los Angeles newcomers\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeout.com\/los-angeles\/restaurants\/camelia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cam\u00e9lia<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeout.com\/los-angeles\/restaurants\/komal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Komal<\/a>\u2014made the cut. The list recognizes restaurants that opened between March 2024 and March 2025, spotlighting \u201cambitious chefs [who] laid themselves bare, their autobiographical storytelling shaping singular restaurants.\u201d Here\u2019s what makes these spots shine:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cam\u00e9lia (Arts District)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Partners Courtney Kaplan and Charles Namba built Cam\u00e9lia on inspiration gathered from Paris and Tokyo, and the result is a bistro that feels equal parts French classic and Japanese precision. The space\u2014once a Nabisco factory\u2014sets the mood with red brick floors, dark leather booths and globe lights, while chopsticks sit neatly beside polished bistro silverware.<\/p>\n<p>Namba\u2019s menu leans French but dazzles with Japanese flourishes. Bon App\u00e9tit writer Elazar Sontag gushes about dishes like the roast chicken that&#8217;s \u201cas burnished as a penny,\u201d its flavor deepened with koji and served in a seaweed cream sauce \u201cthat tastes like the distillation of a warm ocean breeze.\u201d Loup de mer arrives with sansho-pepper butter and a storm of grated daikon. Meanwhile, Kaplan\u2019s sake pairings stand alongside French wines, elevating everything from abalone pot pies to croque-madames made with fluffy shoku-pan. As Sontag puts it: \u201cCam\u00e9lia is never just one thing. Always both, always and.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>RECOMMENDED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeout.com\/los-angeles\/news\/michelin-adds-three-new-l-a-restaurants-to-the-2025-california-guide-051425\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Michelin adds three new L.A. restaurants to the 2025 California guide<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Komal (Mercado La Paloma)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>At Komal, inside the bustling <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeout.com\/los-angeles\/restaurants\/mercado-la-paloma\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mercado La Paloma<\/a>, chef F\u00e1tima Ju\u00e1rez turns masa into art. Guests are invited to choose the corn\u2014yellow, purple or even shimmering pink\u2014for their tetela, the Oaxacan triangular pastry stuffed with cheese. Ju\u00e1rez might blend multiple varietals into marbled creations that showcase the subtle differences displayed by each variety.<\/p>\n<p>Komal draws mostly from Mexico\u2019s deep masa traditions, though Ju\u00e1rez occasionally nods to other Latin American staples. Each bite of rowboat-shaped masa filled with velvety ayocote beans is a reminder of what fresh tortillas can really be. According to Sontag, &#8220;lunch at Komal is enough to make anyone wonder if they\u2019ve ever really known corn.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Check out the full list of Best New Restaurant winners <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bonappetit.com\/story\/best-new-restaurants-2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bon App\u00e9tit just released its Best New Restaurants in America list for 2025, and two Los Angeles newcomers\u2014Cam\u00e9lia&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":232308,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,10633,2961,224,5337,10634,988],"class_list":{"0":"post-232307","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-categories-restaurants","11":"tag-la","12":"tag-los-angeles","13":"tag-losangeles","14":"tag-news-eating","15":"tag-restaurants"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115216267712741514","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}