LA Trip Report July 2021

[Mr_Happy]

A great dinner at Hayato, which I also thought warranted its own thread:

Hayato [Downtown Los Angeles]

Hayato is a Japanese kaiseki[2] restaurant from chef Brandon Go in the Row DTLA shopping center in Downtown LA. Some more info about the restaurant directly from the chef here. Hayato reopened for dinner service recently in mid June. It’s a bit difficult to get a reservation here, since they only have 7 seats and only one seating a night at 6:30. I signed up for their waiting list on Tock a few weeks ago and lucked out on an opening. As one might expect with such a small nightly seating, the ex…