Craft
photo: Alen Lin
Tom Colicchio's stylish new Craft in Century City may do more than bring the City of Angels a taste of the New York approach to New American cooking. It may also bring back ties and jackets, which for years now have been lurking on the edge of extinction at even the most elegant of Los Angeles eateries. (They're virtually nonexistent at Spago, little known at the Hotel Bel-Air.)
Thanks to its location in the midst of lawyer-and-agent-heavy Century City, Craft has easily become the single best-dressed restaurant in town, as it's been filled with men and women in Armani suits since it opened on July 13th. With CAA directly next door (Craft is essentially the CAA commissary), the agency's dark-suited legions have been filling the tables, giving the eatery a degree of style that Craft itself doesn't demand. They describe their dress code as "smart casual" – whatever that means.
– Merrill Shindler