Holbox Los Angeles

Holbox sits on South Grand Avenue, a twenty-minute walk from the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. The restaurant holds a Michelin star and ranks no. 4 on the L.A. Times 101 Best Restaurants list.

The kitchen prepares Mexican seafood with a focus on precision that most city spots forgo for the sake of volume. While the room runs smart and elegant, it rejects the formal theater common elsewhere. You choose this for the quality of the raw bar rather than the ornamentation of the dining room. It is a more intense experience than its neighbors near Exposition Park, but it remains the most direct way to eat regional Mexican flavors at this level in Los Angeles.