LOS ANGELES
CHINESE
Kato
American · Composed · Downtown Los Angeles
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Jonathan Yao's tasting-menu room moved from a West LA strip mall to the Row DTLA in 2022 and earned two Michelin stars by 2024 — a quiet ascent that matches the food's restraint. Taiwanese flavors filtered through technique that draws from Tokyo as much as Taipei. Cold noodles with bottarga. Smoked oyster, beef tongue, milk bread. One of the city's best meals, and one of its least loud.