Since opening in 2008, Chefs Jon Shook and Vinny Dotolo continue to garner prominent national accolades at Animal, which offers locally sourced ingredients in dishes that have included such as braised rabbit legs with green beans, mushrooms, potato puree and mustard jus.
James Beard Foundation: Jon Shook and Vinny Dotolo, Best Chef: West finalist, 2013
" ... The operating principle at Animal is neither the aggressive
clams-in-ham philosophy of so much avant-garde cooking nor the
Rabelaisian head-to-tail approach, but pleasure: a simple, howlingly
good plate of crisp, assertively salted hominy; a bubbling crock of
melted cheese spiked with a few slips of thinly sliced chorizo; a summer
salad of tomatoes, roasted beets and feta that is probably one of their
catering favorites; a plain bowl of Persian mulberries in the weeks of
the year that it would be criminal to modify the pure, musky taste of
the fruit."
- Jonathan Gold, LA Weekly
Beer and wine available. Serving dinner nightly. Late-night Fri-Sat.
ADDRESS
435 N Fairfax Ave,
Los Angeles, CA 90036
LOCALEATS AWARDS
Top 100 Restaurant
WHAT WE SAY
Since opening in 2008, Chefs Jon Shook and Vinny Dotolo continue to garner prominent national accolades at Animal, which offers locally sourced ingredients in dishes that have included such as braised rabbit legs with green beans, mushrooms, potato puree and mustard jus.
WHAT THEY SAY
James Beard Foundation: Jon Shook and Vinny Dotolo, Best Chef: West finalist, 2013
" ... The operating principle at Animal is neither the aggressive
clams-in-ham philosophy of so much avant-garde cooking nor the
Rabelaisian head-to-tail approach, but pleasure: a simple, howlingly
good plate of crisp, assertively salted hominy; a bubbling crock of
melted cheese spiked with a few slips of thinly sliced chorizo; a summer
salad of tomatoes, roasted beets and feta that is probably one of their
catering favorites; a plain bowl of Persian mulberries in the weeks of
the year that it would be criminal to modify the pure, musky taste of
the fruit."
- Jonathan Gold, LA Weekly
ADDITIONAL INFO
Beer and wine available. Serving dinner nightly. Late-night Fri-Sat.