Amici Brentwood

On our list of the best special-occasion restaurants in Los Angeles.

Pasta is rolled in house every day, and the spaghetti chitarra comes tossed with enough bottarga to carry the dish on its own. A brick-walled dining room opens onto a patio and a full parking lot, and the space reads bigger inside than the storefront on San Vicente suggests. Brunch runs Saturday and Sunday until 2:30, and dinner is served nightly starting at five. The kitchen also turns out salads, fish, steak and pizza alongside the pasta list.