{"id":155162,"date":"2026-01-29T17:25:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T17:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/155162\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T17:25:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T17:25:06","slug":"review-a-luxe-new-spanish-restaurant-hides-in-a-downtown-los-angeles-high-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/155162\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: A Luxe New Spanish Restaurant Hides in a Downtown Los Angeles High-Rise\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph n2hx75i _1knl15h1 _1knl15h0 cej01i1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/la.eater.com\/2023\/3\/2\/23609183\/los-angeles-spanish-food-restaurants-trend-opening-news-feature-paella-jamon\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Spanish cuisine\u2019s visibility has ebbed and flowed<\/a> in Los Angeles, though newer players like <a href=\"https:\/\/la.eater.com\/2023\/2\/15\/23600355\/teleferic-spanish-barcelona-brentwood-restaurant-opening-new-photos-inside-menu\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Teleferic<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/la.eater.com\/2023\/7\/13\/23792665\/xuntos-santa-monica-spanish-tapas-pintxos-bar-restaurant\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Xuntos<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/la.eater.com\/2022\/6\/30\/23189640\/jose-andres-chef-los-angeles-new-restaurants-open-downtown-conrade-san-laurel-agua-viva-inside\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Laurel<\/a> have upped the game in town. But down south in <a href=\"https:\/\/la.eater.com\/maps\/best-essential-restaurants-orange-county-california\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Orange County<\/a>, Top Chef regular Amar Santana has been cooking polished Spanish food for years at his restaurant <a href=\"https:\/\/vacarestaurant.com\/los-angeles\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Vaca<\/a>, which <a href=\"https:\/\/la.eater.com\/2023\/5\/3\/23709882\/top-chef-amar-santana-vaca-spanish-restaurant-expansion-downtown-los-angeles-news-beaudry\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">quietly opened in Downtown Los Angeles<\/a> in December 2025. Finding Vaca feels like a treasure hunt that\u2019s well worth the effort. Park in the 777 Figueroa Building and take a rather ominous tunnel down to the main retail stretch along Figueroa Avenue. Make a hard right at the end of the tunnel, and Vaca resides on the ground floor of a tall residential tower. Santana\u2019s approach to Spanish fare bucks the trend of mid-range prices, featuring high-end dry-aged beef, lush seafood paellas, and precise tapas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph n2hx75i _1knl15h1 _1knl15h0 cej01i1\">Flan will seem like a tempting dessert but the modest-looking tres leches cake packs a sweeter punch. Also: make sure to get your parking validated, or else it\u2019ll cost more than an order of jam\u00f3n Ib\u00e9rico.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph n2hx75i _1knl15h1 _1knl15h0 cej01i1\">Expense account lunches or dinners, quiet date-nights that feel like a real find, top-tier pre-theater or Laker game snacks and drinks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Spanish cuisine\u2019s visibility has ebbed and flowed in Los Angeles, though newer players like Teleferic, Xuntos, and San&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155163,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[28829,48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":{"0":"post-155162","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-dining-reports","9":"tag-la","10":"tag-la-headlines","11":"tag-la-news","12":"tag-los-angeles","13":"tag-los-angeles-headlines","14":"tag-los-angeles-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}