L&E Oyster Bar

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

Two floors on a hillside stretch of Silver Lake Boulevard, a few blocks below the reservoir: a dining room downstairs with tables out on the sidewalk, and a cocktail bar upstairs serving oysters, snow crab claws and a lobster roll. The oysters arrive daily from farms in British Columbia, Washington, Massachusetts and Nova Scotia. Downstairs the menu goes further, to crab cakes, clam linguine, moules frites and branzino with rice pilaf. There are no reservations, so everyone walks in, and the weekday happy hour knocks a little off wine, cocktails and draft beer.