LOS ANGELES
JAPANESE
Orsa & Winston
American · Hearty · Downtown Los Angeles
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Josef Centeno's Italian-Japanese tasting room in a 24-seat downtown space — the smallest, most personal restaurant in his quietly excellent four-restaurant empire on the same block. Risotto with uni. Pasta with bonito. A cross-cultural confidence that doesn't translate as fusion so much as conviction. The kind of room where you talk to the chef across the counter without it being a thing.