A.O.C.

On our list of the best romantic restaurants in Los Angeles.

The vine-covered courtyard out back seats about seventy, and it came with the building — Orso ran power lunches on that patio before Il Covo took it. Suzanne Goin and Caroline Styne moved their 2002 wine bar in here in 2013, opened up the wall between bar and dining room, and put in a long communal bar-top table. The wine list runs to organic and biodynamic growers. Bacon-wrapped dates, arroz negro and the Spanish fried chicken are the standing orders.