{"id":402304,"date":"2026-07-17T15:06:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T15:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/402304\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T15:06:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T15:06:20","slug":"where-los-angeles-fcs-head-coach-eats-in-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/402304\/","title":{"rendered":"Where Los Angeles FC\u2019s Head Coach Eats in Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"

Born in Montr\u00e9al\u2019s Little Italy neighborhood, Los Angeles FC head coach Marc Dos Santos<\/a> has long had a soft spot for Italian cooking. \u201cWhat really marked me is the pasta,\u201d he says. \u201cI remember being with friends and how the mothers and grandmothers fixated on how much the pasta was cooked.\u201d A move to Portugal reaffirmed his love of restaurants, which continues today in Los Angeles, where he relocated as a child.<\/p>\n

In Los Angeles, Dos Santos<\/a> has also found a love of food trucks<\/a> \u2014 some serving dishes he\u2019s hasn\u2019t found in other cities. \u201cSome of the food trucks, the tacos they have, I cannot find in any other city,\u201d Dos Santos says. \u201cIt\u2019s impossible.\u201d<\/p>\n

As Major League Soccer returns from its World Cup hiatus<\/a>, Eater spoke with Dos Santos about his favorite restaurants and what makes Los Angeles such a standout restaurant city. This interview has been edited for clarity and length.<\/p>\n

Eater: What are your go-to Los Angeles restaurants?<\/p>\n

\"Marc<\/a><\/p>\n

Marc Dos Santos. Los Angeles FC.<\/p>\n

Marc Dos Santos: When I was in Manhattan Beach I really loved Nando Trattoria<\/a> \u2014 now they\u2019re moving to Beverly Hills \u2014 and Love and Salt. I like Dami\u00e1n<\/a>, a Mexican place in the Arts district. In Pasadena, I love Dos Besos<\/a>. I really like Mother Wolf<\/a> on Wilcox in Hollywood; it\u2019s close to Universal Studios also and the same chef as Funke<\/a> in Beverly Hills. I go to the rooftop and the restaurant. A Portuguese spot that I really like is Barra Santos<\/a> in Cypress Park. That\u2019s where you could find me in LA.<\/p>\n

What stands out to you about Los Angeles as a food city?<\/p>\n

Los Angeles has amazing variety \u2014 so many places. Whatever corner of the world you want, you can find it here. It\u2019s very fascinating. I was lucky to be in Montr\u00e9al for many years and Montr\u00e9al is also a really good food city, but the variety in LA sets it apart. That\u2019s what fascinates me about this city.<\/p>\n

Where do you go after a match? <\/p>\n

When I leave a game my favorite place is In-N-Out. It\u2019s easy when there\u2019s not a lot of people because it\u2019s late at night. I leave the stadium really late so I don\u2019t have a place where I go and sit down somewhere. It\u2019s always pretty quick. I\u2019m very simple after a game.<\/p>\n

What is your In-N-Out order?<\/p>\n

Double-Double protein style.<\/p>\n

Outside of LA, what are some of your other favorite food cities in the US that you go to within the MLS circuit?<\/p>\n

\"Carne<\/a><\/p>\n

Carne asada at Damian. Madeline Kim<\/p>\n

By far Montr\u00e9al. Maybe because I lived there for so many years, I know a lot of great places. Big shout out to Ferreira Caf\u00e9<\/a> in Montr\u00e9al. They don\u2019t pay me for this, but trust me, it is amazing. Vancouver, B.C., has amazing spots too. Because I grew up in Little Italy, I love cities that have this Italian corner that I can go visit like in Philadelphia<\/a>, Chicago<\/a>. When we\u2019re there, I love to go to those Italian neighborhoods where you can always find good spots.<\/p>\n

If someone is in from out of town and you\u2019re taking out dinner, making recommendations, where would you send them around LA? <\/p>\n

I always say, do you want something really simple? How much do you want to spend? What do you want to do? What kind of environment? And I think that\u2019s what LA offers \u2014 so much variation in everything. And you could go from elite top five-star restaurants to something very simple and so good.<\/p>\n

What about once fancy and one simple?<\/p>\n

For more fancy I love Mother Wolf. It\u2019s a great place, great environment, great food. Oh, simple, man. It depends so much. Once a month I go to this simple pizzeria called Settebello<\/a> in Pasadena and the pizza is like Naples. You\u2019re in Naples. So it really depends what you like. I didn\u2019t know about the culture of food trucks until I arrived in LA and some are unforgettable. You think it\u2019s so simple and then you get in and it\u2019s so, so good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Born in Montr\u00e9al\u2019s Little Italy neighborhood, Los Angeles FC head coach Marc Dos Santos has long had a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":402305,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[9662,48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-402304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-dining-out-in-la","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402304","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=402304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}