Los Angeles’s Best New Restaurants Of 2017

"There are casual neighborhood pizzerias all over LA. Very few of them are establishments where you want to spend a Thursday night. But Cosa Buona is the Echo Park spot from the Alimento crew that’s everything you could want in a laid-back pizza place. For one, the pizza’s excellent. Secondly, no matter how last-minute you and your friends are, they always seem to have a table ready in under 15 minutes. Not to mention the solid wine and craft beer list and the best mozzarella sticks you’ve had since Meghan Johnson’s sleepover in the 6th grade." - jess basser sanders, brant cox