Here are the 20 best Italian restaurants to try in Los Angeles. Note: For this guide, we’re mostly omitting pizzerias or restaurants that primarily serve pizza as Eater already has a pizza map.

While New York City is known for having some of the best restaurants for pizza and old-school Sicilian cuisine in the country, in recent years, Los Angeles has upped the ante for Italian food.

who covers the evolving landscape of Los Angeles’s food scene. Guido’s, a longstanding Sawtelle red sauce Italian restaurant, is closing on May 31 after 46 years, reports L.A. Taco.

Name any neighborhood in Los Angeles and Chan — with a few thoughtful blinks — will produce the name of a Chinese restaurant within a few miles. His expertise has brought him renown.

New to the global and growing Eataly restaurant empire, Capri is the latest addition to Century City’s beloved temple of Italian fare. Naples-born chef Giuseppe Manco whips up spaghetti alla ...

At the duo’s second Fairfax storefront, Jon Shook and Vinny Dotolo might have been going for a humble neighborhood Italian hang, but they made a destination restaurant. Blame those killer ...