The Hungry Cat

Thanks for all the good times Hungry Cat! My favorite restaurant in Hollywood for many years. According to my records, I ate here at least 157 times: the first on Sept 11, 2005 and the last on April 17, 2019 (= a lobster roll, of course). Thank you to Chef Lentz for bringing the first grown-up restaurant to a neighborhood previously relegated to tourists. I almost always sat at the bar, so thank you to Jake, Danielle, Bob, Mari, Nikki, Joseph and other bartenders who made it a...read full review

Sometimes I go to a place for specific dishes. Here, it is Clam Chowder and a crab sandwich. They are delicious. Its a little pricey for buying fresh fish, but they are the only fish market in the neighborhood. They welcome corkage. So bring a bottle of wine.

Good bye, The Hungry Cat. Some of my best meals in the last decade were at The Hungry Cat. My OG favorite Suzanne Goin restaurant. It's the end of an era, first Nozawa (Studio City), then WD-50 (Lower East Side), then Joe's (Venice), then Annisa (West Village), now The Hungry Cat (Hollywood). It's the dying of the cozy, local, supernovas in LA and NY. The Hungry Cat under Suzanne Goin and husband was Michelin one star worthy. At less, we still have Nancy Silverton in LA.