Where to find the best takeout and delivery in L.A.

What would a takeout and delivery list be without the beloved Jitlada? With a menu long enough it could be a novella about the regional cuisine of Thailand, chef Jazz Singsanong’s Thai Town masterpiece is a restaurant you could order from every week for years and never tire of. Her curries, stir-fries, salads and specials make for some of the most memorable meals, not to mention the spiciest, and no matter what you're looking for Jazz has got it. Crispy morning glory salad is a must-order, as is the hot-hot-hot crying tiger pork, as are the turmeric-laden chicken wings, as is the special burger, as is, well, everything.

This former La Cañada Filipino pop-up now has a fast-casual home in East Hollywood, and for once, the hype makes complete sense. Stop in for takeout or order delivery to savor Maynard Llera’s lechon-style porchetta, slices of crispy twice-cooked pork belly—our personal favorite—and savory-sweet sausages known as longsilog. Solo diners can enjoy rice bowls with fragrant mounds of garlic rice and other weekly specials, but a better move is to come in with a friend or two to enjoy Llera’s signature Kuya trays: family-style spreads of rice, pancit chami, your choice of protein and pickled vegetables. 

Vivian Ku's fleet of Taiwanese restaurants in Silver Lake, Highland Park and Downtown offer solidly delicious chilled appetizers, dumplings, noodles and rice bowls that travel well whether you're taking out or ordering via third-party delivery. There's nourishing bowls of mapo tofu, the most centrally located shengjianbao in L.A. (though by no means the best) and decent boba drinks. Take one bite of the scallion pancakes or beef rolls, and you'll easily understand why Pine & Crane has long been the go-option for Taiwanese/Chinese takeout or a casual dine-in meal among locals in these neighborhoods.

Either of Noree Pla and Fern Kaewtathip's restaurants in Beverly Grove and Hollywood, respectively, offering some of the best Thai food via takeout and delivery. From the pair's signature spicy crab curry to their milder, but just as pleasing jade noodles, you'll find that the dishes at Luv2Eat and Noree Thai are all hits, no misses. For lighter fare, we also recommend their salmon larb, when available.

This tiny spot along Westwood Boulevard serves the best Persian-style kebab in the city, minus the extra frills—and you can even get it delivered. Served with rice and a grilled tomato, cuts like beef and chicken koobideh (ground meat kebabs) always come juicy, well-marinated and perfectly seasoned, with just the right amount of onion. There's also well-executed homier dishes like tahdig—a pan-sized sheet of crispy rice, typically eaten with stew—and ash reshteh, a traditional herbaceous chickpea and white bean soup. Best of all, Saghar Fanisalek’s fast-casual eatery is relatively affordable.

A little bit coastal and a whole lot of a party, Christopher Tompkins's seafood restaurant now has locations in Malibu and Downtown's Grand Central Market—and you can even get those famously loaded lobster rolls delivered to your home. Look for other heartier specials hitting the grill: buttery, herbed-up razor clams; blue crab cakes with panko breadcrumbs; a meaty burger with shio kombu.

The Santee Passage food court probably isn’t where you’d expect to find some of the most delicious, unapologetically spicy Thai food in Los Angeles, but that’s exactly where you’ll find Downtown’s Holy Basil. Using high-quality, locally sourced ingredients, chef Wedchayan “Deau” Arpapornnopparat and partner Tongkamal “Joy” Yuon regularly inspire revelations in Southeast Asian flavor and spice with their version of takeout favorites like pad kee mao and green curry. 

A beautiful, impossibly crackly focaccia crust bookends the delicious creations at this blink-and-you’ll-miss-it sandwich pop-up inside Santa Monica’s JuneShine. Despite the limited hours (Wed–Fri noon–5pm), the distinctive housemade bread—plus the prospect of a proper Bread Head storefront along Montana Avenue by summer’s end—translates into a superb Westside lunch destination and soon-to-be top L.A. sandwich shop. Made fresh daily by Jordan Snyder and Alex Williams—formerly of Ludo Lefebvre’s now-closed Trois Mec—each bread slice’s golden, buttery half combines with high-quality meats, luscious cheeses and a mélange of flavorful spreads. Though the pair rotate through six menu items at a time, our go-to evergreen option is the Mozzarella, which pairs the namesake soft cheese with pickled red onions, sliced avocado, alfalfa sprouts and a creamy za’atar mayo.

This love letter to Korean comfort food inside Grand Central Market comes from Kwang Uh and Mina Park, the same chefs behind Baroo, the now-closed restaurant that helped popularize fermentation within the L.A. food scene. Now, the pair—who are married and have a son—have turned their attention to dosirak, or lunch boxes, which come perfectly portioned with three types of house-made banchan and your choice of L.A.-style galbi, kimchi-braised pork belly, doenjang-marinated chicken or vegan-friendly fried shiitake mushrooms. Kimchi fried rice, bibimbap and a KFC (the "K" stands for Korean here) rice bowl round out the menu. With Uh and Park’s fermentation skills, the stall’s take-home, larger portioned banchan are equally mouth watering—especially, when available, Baroo’s signature kimchi yellow corn.

With locations all over town—Brentwood, Marina del Rey, Hollywood, Studio City, Beverly Hills, Pasadena and Downtown, to name a few—Kazunori Nozawa’s mini-empire is our favorite way to enjoy excellent, high-quality takeout sushi. Sugarfish favors straightforward nigiri and hand rolls, and when it comes to its takeout, the packaging feels almost revolutionary in highlighting the simplicity. You can order à la carte, though it's better to opt for one of the prix-fixe "Trust Me" menus, where each box's lid includes diagrams for sauce and garnish usage—each piece of fish and rice corresponding most correctly to match high-quality, affordable sushi with simple ponzus, finely sliced green onion and more.

It’s all in the details at LA Tofu House, a strip mall gem on the eastern end of Koreatown giving a certain three-letter soondubu spot a run for its money. Whether opting for a standard tofu soup or their delicious octopus bibimbap, each dish supersedes others in quality by leaps and bounds, with a slight premium to match across the (still quite affordably priced) menu. Combined with all-day hours—which stretch to 3am on weekends—and easy $3 valet parking, this tiny restaurant on Vermont Avenue is a must-go for neighborhood residents, those who love homestyle Korean cuisine and night owls in search of a cozy afterhours meal.

With locations in Santa Monica, Playa Vista, Sawtelle, Pasadena and Manhattan Beach, Dan Modern Chinese provides fast-casual Chinese food with a level of consistency and convenience that’s conducive to rush hour takeout runs and third-party delivery. While not every item is a winner on the menu, a few standouts—including the pork xiaolongbao, the saucy, garlicky dan mien (served with your choice of protein) and the Dungeness crab fried rice—keep us coming back to Dan time and time again.

One of Koreatown's most popular all-you-can-eat Korean barbecue restaurants also offers some of the best takeout KBBQ in town. Each set meal comes with banchan, kimchi, rice and soup, as well as a choice of perfectly grilled meat and onions. 

Thank god, we can now get Philippe's delivered. In business since 1908, Philippe the Original—and most likely the inventor of the French dip sandwich—launched takeout in 2020, more than 100 years since its founding. (Better late than never.) All the classics are there: beef dip, lamb dip, pork dip, pastrami dip, ham dip, turkey dip—you can even get the sides of potato salad or pickled eggs. Everyone knows the French dip sandwich is also incomplete without some of the sinus-clearing house mustard, which, of course, you can now order for delivery by the bottle. You can even throw it back with beer or wine, and finish it all off with a slice of cheesecake.

True to its name, Koreatown's Hangari Kalguksu specializes in kalguksu, or hand-cut noodles, which come in a mild, comforting broth with clams or chicken. We recommend the kalguksu on a cold day, or ordered via delivery if you're feeling unwell. Hangari's hidden gem, however, are their bossam platters, which come with delicate slices of boiled pork belly, crunchy cabbage leaves, radish kimchi, rice, plus slices of jalapeño and garlic for extra spice and flavor.

"We've come a long way, baby," is probably what a plate of Uovo's handmade pasta might say to you if, of course, it could talk. From the minds of Sugarfish comes Uovo, a quick-and-casual Italian restaurant that only serves fresh pasta that's been overnighted from Uovo's own kitchen in Bologna, Italy. Available for both takeout and delivery, the restaurant's pasta travels well, and reheats beautifully.

California-meets-Mediterranean go-to Kismet operates a casual rotisserie just down the block, and it's just as charming and modern as its counterpart. One of the best aspects? The full menu at Kismet Rotisserie is built to travel, be it via delivery service or your own car, so it holds up well and, as with any rotisserie worth its weight in chicken, it's scalable. Succulent, slow-roasted chicken rubbed with what feels like half of a spice rack is tender and beyond flavorful, and the salads, hummus and sides like schmaltz potatoes or yogurt-and-fennel cabbage match the chicken's care and intricacies.

Named after the father of chef-owner Barb Batiste, this takeout-oriented storefront on Sawtelle serves delicious rice and pancit combo plates that incorporate Filipino classics like pork sisig, chicken adobo, longganisa (a chorizo-like pork sausage) and even housemade Spam. Each combo comes with a piece of Big Boi’s pandesal—a plain dinner roll and staple carb within Filipino cuisine. Other than Jollibee, Big Boi is the only place in Los Angeles where you can regularly find Filipino-style spaghetti, a sweet, yellow cheese-covered version of the classic American dish that uses hot dogs and banana ketchup. For dessert, head a few hundred yards over to B Sweet, which peddles several kinds of bread pudding, ube-flavored desserts and other craveworthy desserts.

The sceney, neon-pink–tinged steakhouse just blocks from Venice Beach is delicious in its own right, but its casual walk-up windows next door, plus satellite locations along the boardwalk and in Venice Beach, are also a great place to grab a quick takeout meal. The Win-Dow at American Beauty serves a signature $3.95 single smashburger, and a $6.26 double, plus $6 fried chicken sandwiches and a few newer morning-friendly newbies, such as a steak-and-egg breakfast burrito stuffed with brisket and french fries. Seeing as the entire concept is made to take away, it's a streamlined and affordable meal option that also happens to travel fairly well—and if you're near Venice or Silver Lake, you can also find it on the delivery apps.

At this unassuming West Hollywood sushi spot, the most popular order is the choose-your-own-adventure chirashi bowl, which comes topped with three to five different items including spicy scallop, yellowtail, avocado and—for a premium—fresh uni. The sashimi cuts are particularly good when doused in Murakami’s garlic soy sauce, and each homestyle rice bowl travels well when ordered via third-party delivery.

With locations in both Miracle Mile and Downtown, Yuko Kitchen has been serving Angelenos affordable, classic Japanese starters, healthy salad-filled rice bowls, vegan cookies and other delightful, takeout-friendly fare since 2012. For a lunchtime takeout meal that doesn't break the bank, we recommend their rice bowls with spicy salmon, garlic albacore or teriyaki chicken.