Studio City, Los Angeles · restaurant
A two-tiered brasero anchors the cave-like dining room, and nearly everything touches open fire—from piquillo peppers confited in beef tallow to kombu-cured pork txuleta. Cocktails show up in mate gourds or under smoke bubbles you pop with your face. The Pampa’s Omakase hands the whole night over to the kitchen, which is exactly the right move here.