Woodley Proper (CLOSED)

Top Chef's Phillip Frankland Lee runs the Encino restaurant game, opening not one but four and a half concepts within one strip mall. Woodley Proper, his gastropub, is a moody neighborhood hub where you're just as likely to find comforting classics—crispy potatoes, house-made loaves of bread, wings, oysters—as you are the over-the-top and exotic (foie gras patty melts, lamb-neck tacos). Don't skip the ambitious cocktail program, and for $1 oysters, stop by on Tuesdays. Looking for more seafood? Try Frankland's Crab & Co. next door, or Sushi Bar, the Wednesday-to-Sunday sushi speakeasy within Woodley Proper.