The 22 Best Healthy Restaurants in LA Right Now

• Location: 205 S. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90004
• Available for delivery/takeout: yes

This charming restaurant and wine bar in Koreatown is perfect for a romantic date night, and they offer a vegetarian menu of small bites, pastas and pizzas with an L.A. flair - think jackfruit barbacoa fusilli pasta and pizza with kimchi. A good portion of their menu is also vegan or dairy-free.

• Location: 300 S. Doheny Dr., Los Angeles, CA 90048
• Available for delivery/takeout: yes

Matthew Kenney’s Plant Food+Wine recently relocated to the pool-level rooftop of Four Seasons Hotel Los Angeles at Beverly Hills. The shaded outdoor dining area, lined with citrus trees, is a lovely place to enjoy the restaurant’s plant-based menu with signature dishes like avocado tikka served with potato flatbread. For brunch, the cornmeal waffle served with fried maitake mushrooms is a fun take on the classic. 

• Location: 3464 W. 8th St., Los Angeles, CA 90005
• Available for delivery/takeout: Dine-in and takeout

Korean cuisine isn’t all about Korean barbeque and Borit Gogae is a great example of just how healthy the food can be. The restaurant offers a barley rice set that comes with a spread of banchan which are all vegetable-forward, from bean sprouts to shimeji mushrooms. The idea is to mix everything with the barley rice for a DIY bibimbap. This is not a plant-based restaurant, though; the meal also comes with a comforting and creamy perilla seed chicken soup. 

• Location: 7469 Melrose Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90046
• Available for delivery/takeout: Dine-in and takeout only

West African cuisine is one that is still uncommon in Los Angeles, but Ubuntu is even more unique because it is all plant-based. Chef Shenarri “Greens” Freeman partnered up with NYC-based Overthrow Hospitality to open this colorful Melrose restaurant that cooks up vegan twists on dishes from West Africa, like fonio grits served with oyster mushrooms or charred okra salad with a bright passion fruit vinaigrette. 

• Location: Multiple locations
• Available for delivery/takeout: yes

Everytable’s mission is to make healthy food affordable and accessible to everyone, and they do so by offering ready-to-eat meals you can grab-and-go from their multiple storefronts around Los Angeles and beyond. They also adjust their pricing according to each neighborhood as part of this mission. Everytable’s menu is wide-ranging from the vegan tofu larb with rice noodles to a heartier curry chicken created as a collaboration with a local pop-up, Trap Kitchen from Compton.

• Location: Multiple locations
• Available for delivery/takeout: yes

Tulsi is a modern Indian eatery that has rapidly expanded around Los Angeles. Their menu is completely plant-based, including using vegan alternatives for dishes that normally use meat, including their popular “chick’n” tikka masala. They also serve healthy regional specialties including spinach curry in ginger and mustard leaves, vegetarian biryani, and of course, a variety of curry. A cooling (and probiotic-fueled) yogurt lassi is the perfect beverage to wash it all down with.

• Location: Multiple locations
• Available for delivery/takeout: yes

Salad-focused Alfalfa got its start as a farmers market stand in Hoboken, New Jersey and then opened its second location in Los Angeles, where one of the co-owners had lived for a few years. There are a number of tasty salad choices on the menu (we’re fans of the date-filled West Coast and the Peruvian Chicken), plus the option to build your own bowl. For balance, they also serve breakfast burritos and small, gluten-free donuts made fresh daily.

• Location: 900 N. La Brea Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90038
• Available for delivery/takeout: no; dine-in only

If exclusivity is what you’re after, look no further than this restaurant from award-winning chef Michael Mina on the fourth floor of Heimat, a massive members-only, luxury fitness club in West Hollywood. Mother Tongue serves up a global menu of reinvented comfort foods using nutritious ingredients that don’t taste overly healthy. Each dish on the menu is also labeled to indicate whether they are plant-based, keto-friendly, anti-inflammatory, or good for your cognitive functions.

• Location: 1620 Silver Lake Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90026
• Available for delivery/takeout: yes (select items)

Botanica in Silver Lake is all about healthful and nourishing cooking dished up with good vibes. The menu is vegetable heavy but not completely vegetarian, with dishes like Japanese sweet potatoes and farm-fresh eggs for brunch, and squash with chrysanthemum yuzu pesto or mushrooms and brown rice for dinner. They also serve natural wines and cocktails featuring farmers market products.

• Location: 1620 Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90026
• Available for delivery/takeout: yes

Honey Hi isn’t just good for diners, but also the community. The restaurant prepares their food using mostly organic produce purchased at local farmer’s markets and steers clear from refined sugars and additives. There are nutritious sweet potato hash bowls and salads that are definitely worth trying, but Honey Hi also serves up some indulgence with a healthy twist, including gluten free brioche French toast.

• Location: 450 S. Western Ave. #FC3, Los Angeles, CA 90020
• Available for delivery/takeout: yes

Healthy and comforting, Bonjuk specializes in Korean rice porridge that is perfect any day but especially on those chilly winter ones. There are almost a dozen porridge options, from vegetable to mushroom and oyster, each of which is listed on the menu along with its nutritional benefits. To complete the meal are also some sweet porridge desserts such as pine nut porridge. Yum.

• Location: Multiple locations
• Available for delivery/takeout: yes

A restaurant founded by a well-known doctor of integrative medicine is bound to have a focus on health, but True Food Kitchen makes the menu approachable. Here, eating healthy is all about balance and making small changes towards better alternatives instead of extreme diets. Menu favorites include the grass fed burger with a flaxseed bun, hearty salads, flavorful grain bowls and pescatarian dishes full of superfoods.

• Location: 1156 N. Highland Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90038
• Available for delivery/takeout: yes

By now most of us know how healthy the Mediterranean Diet is, and Sumac Cuisine in Hollywood is no exception. Opened by a husband and wife from Lebanon, Sumac prepares food the way the family would prepare it at home. In addition to the usual suspects like fattoush salad, hummus and falafel, Sumac also offers lesser known items like moudardara prepared with organic lentils and rice, green beans stew and more. Our advice? Come here with a friend and order a few different items off the menu to share.

• Location: 672 S. Santa Fe Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90021
• Available for takeout/delivery: yes (no dine-in)

This takeout and delivery-only spot puts a healthy twist on kimbap, the seaweed rice rolls that are a staple of takeout meals in Korea. Ganchic’s founder Christina Ko wanted to bring a lighter version of this on-the-go meal to busy Angelenos. Instead of rice that is typical in the kimbap, Ganchic uses quinoa. The filling, which ranges from beef to tofu, and vegan sauces are all made without refined sugar.

• Location: 8905 Melrose Ave., West Hollywood, CA 90069
• Available for takeout/delivery: yes 

This plant-based Mexican restaurant from the people behind Cafe Gratitude comes with one of the best patios in West Hollywood, and the food is pretty damn good too. Find ceviche made with hearts of palm, tamale with cashew mozzarella and jackfruit carnitas tacos. Gracias Madre also has a complete allergen information for all their dishes handy for those who have allergy concerns.

• Location: 3578 Hayden Ave., Culver City, CA 90232
• Available for delivery/takeout: yes

A daytime cafe from an avant-garde fine-dining chef certainly will not be your regular old cafe. The inventive dishes at this minimalistic eatery feel like they are coming from an upscale restaurant made with the freshest ingredients. While Destroyer is not a vegetarian restaurant, it offers a lot of healthy, vegetable-forward dishes that are full of flavor like the caramelized chickpeas with stewed cherry potatoes and poached egg.

• Location: Multiple locations
• Available for delivery/takeout: yes

This Japanese restaurant is a vegan and gluten-free eatery that also focuses on macrobiotic diet and prepares their food with organic and all natural ingredients. The menu consists of vegan sushi with “eel” made of tofu, “crab cake” made using mushrooms, as well as a good variety of seasonal appetizers and large plates. The brown rice sushi also makes this spot perfect for those who are looking for gluten-free food.

• Location: 4648 Hollywood Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90027
• Available for delivery/takeout: yes

This bright eatery is one of the most popular Middle Eastern restaurants in LA right now, and for good reason. Inspired by local, seasonal produce, the menu at Kismet features inventive and beautifully-presented dishes. Though it’s not a vegetarian restaurant, there are plenty of plant forward dishes like sweet potato toasted hazelnuts and Moroccan spiced carrots. For a little taste of everything, there is the mezze meal for two which can be made vegetarian or vegan.

• Location: 710 W. 1st St., Los Angeles, CA 90012
• Available for delivery/takeout: yes

Au Lac’s owner Mai Nguyen switched to a vegan diet when she was diagnosed with cancer and is now a proponent of a healthy plant-based diet as a part of preventative medicine. Started in 1997, the restaurant’s Vietnamese influenced vegan food was one of the pioneers of LA’s vegan food scene. Though they still serve Vietnamese dishes like plant-based pho and lemongrass “fish”, the menu has expanded to include a number of raw food items as well as cold pressed juices and elixirs.

• Location: 318 E. Broadway, Glendale, CA 91205
• Available for delivery/takeout: yes

Zhengyalov Hatz in Glendale only serves one thing (plus desserts), and that is the store’s namesake flatbread. The vegan flatbread is made with 15 finely minced herbs, sunflower oil and salt. It sounds and looks so simple that it has no business tasting as good as it does, but it is delicious, fresh and vibrant, and healthy to boot.

• Location: 1047 S. Fairfax Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90019
• Available for delivery/takeout: yes

It’s easy to find vegan food with big flavors in Little Ethiopia and Rahel is one of the restaurants offering a completely plant-based menu. The combo is the best way to experience Rahel, with nine items including lentil stew in red pepper sauce, chickpeas and many more. Everything is served with injera, the Ethiopian sour flatbread made with teff flour, which is naturally gluten-free.