{"id":246553,"date":"2026-04-01T10:51:27","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T10:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/246553\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T10:51:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T10:51:27","slug":"new-restaurants-and-pop-ups-to-try-in-los-angeles-in-april-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/246553\/","title":{"rendered":"New restaurants and pop-ups to try in Los Angeles in April 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

Spring has sprung in Los Angeles. In just a couple weeks, thousands of music lovers will make the trek to Indio\u2019s Empire Polo Club for the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival<\/a>, with dozens of L.A. chefs joining them<\/a>. While in the desert, many festival goers take a detour through neighboring Palm Springs<\/a> to explore museums, restaurants and bars before the dry climate climbs into the triple digits. <\/p>\n

Closer to home, Los Angeles\u2019 food scene is mourning the loss of two legendary haunts forced to permanently close their doors. After months of extensions, Cole\u2019s French Dip<\/a> closed at the end of March, though owner Cedd Moses said he was still hopeful that the city\u2019s longest-running public house and rumored creator of the French dip sandwich would sell to a new owner. In Echo Park, Taix<\/a> restaurant closed after 99 years of operation to make way for a six-story housing complex. <\/p>\n

But it\u2019s not all bad news for local restaurants. In Melrose Hill, a Bangladeshi chef has returned to the kitchen after a two-decade-long break from the industry. Across town, a viral smashburger spot from a celebrated chef is drawing lines for its juicy Wagyu patties. And for those heading to the desert, restaurant critic Bill Addison insists a modern Mexican pop-up is worth the weekday trip. Here are 13 places to put on your dining agenda this month:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Spring has sprung in Los Angeles. In just a couple weeks, thousands of music lovers will make the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246554,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[110203,15017,57314,44006,110204,7501,75072,77364,21497,48,52,51,47,50,49,3906,6607,6843,9549,1457],"class_list":["post-246553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-bangladeshi-chef","tag-bar","tag-cole","tag-desert","tag-empire-polo-club","tag-extension","tag-french-dip","tag-good-place","tag-indio","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-month","tag-museum","tag-operation","tag-palm-springs","tag-restaurant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246553","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=246553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}