Lady Byrd Cafe is a new restaurant in Echo Park with a creative, greenhouse-filled patio.

Silverback Coffee of Rwanda has two locations in Echo Park and the Arts District, and serves espresso, house-roasted beans, and social justice.

Little Fish is serving fried seafood (and an excellent newsletter) out of a pop-up in Echo Park.

Angie’s is a pop-up pizza oven cranking out excellent Neapolitan-style pies.

Bar Avalon is an all-day wine bar/restaurant in Echo Park that’s one of the best-kept secrets in town.

Tilda is a wine bar in Echo Park that has everything - bottles of natural wines, French-ish snacks, and a room full of people way cooler than you.

Clark Street Bread’s first stand-alone bakery in Echo Park is bigger, better, and buttery-er.

Thunderbolt in Echo Park is a fairly new bar, but it already feels like a neighborhood institution.

Triple Beam’s second location in Echo Park isn’t much different than the original - and that’s a good thing.

Monty’s Good Burger brings their vegan food to Echo Park that’s bigger, better, and blue-r than ever.

Bar Flores is the exotic, low-key cocktail bar Echo Park deserves. It’s very fragrant inside, too.

Adamae is a very fine dinner spot in Echo Park with American food and tasty cocktails.

Taix French Restaurant may look like a Danish motel from the outside, but it’s actually a huge dining room in Echo Park with a low corkage fee.

Ototo in Echo Park is a casual Japanese spot with a lot going for it - including a huge sake selection - and a lot going against it, too.

Lowboy is a new bar in Echo Park with fun music, a mellow crowd, and particularly lethal cocktails.

1642 is an effortlessly cool bar in Echo Park with a great wine and beer selection, plus live music.