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Press picks, until locals rank their own Top 5s. Sourced from the local food press. As seen in Time Out LA and The Infatuation. Updated August 2026.
Redbird · Downtown LA
Time Out's #1 LA brunch. Neal Fraser's globally-inspired New American cooking inside a former 19th-century cathedral rectory, with biscuits and gravy as the headliner.
République · Hancock Park
Time Out's #6 and Infatuation's #27. Walter and Margarita Manzke's all-day bakery and brasserie in a soaring 1920s Charlie Chaplin-era building.
Destroyer · Culver City
Time Out's #3 and Infatuation's #23. Jordan Kahn's morning-only Nordic-influenced counter with precise, photograph-ready plates.
Gjelina · Venice
Time Out's #8 and Infatuation's #15. The Abbot Kinney farm-to-table standard-bearer that still defines California brunch a decade-plus in.
Yang's Kitchen · Alhambra
Time Out's #7 and Infatuation's #26. Chris Yang's Chinese-American brunch with scallion pancake breakfast sandwiches and congee bowls in the SGV.