17 restaurants · updated November 2026
The Best Indian Restaurants in Los Angeles
Los Angeles does Indian food in two very different places. Artesia's Pioneer Boulevard is the old Little India, full of dosa houses, thali halls and sweet shops, while the Westside and Eastside have the newer gastropubs and fusion rooms. Hawthorne and Lawndale near LAX quietly hold some of the best Pakistani cooking in the city.
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Modern and fusion 3South Indian 5Regional and North Indian 5Pakistani and biryani 4
Modern and fusion
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A grown-up Indian dining room with a proper bar near the beach. Book it when you want cocktails and a long dinner rather than a quick curry.
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The gastropub that made Indian bar food a thing in LA. Loud, playful and very good at the classics it riffs on.
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An Indian-Italian sports bar with TVs on the walls and pizza topped with saag. It sounds like a gimmick and turns out to be one of the most fun meals in town.
Lamb Rogan Josh
Chicken Tikka
Saag PaneerSouth Indian
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A sit-down South Indian room on Pioneer Boulevard with a long dosa list and some serious Chettinad cooking.
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A long-running vegetarian dosa house known for its paper dosa, which arrives longer than the table is wide.
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All-you-can-eat vegetarian thali where the servers keep refilling the small bowls until you stop them.
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Andhra cooking with real heat. Come for the biryani and the sour, spicy fish pulusu.
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A Kerala specialist with a big vegetarian section. The coconut-rich fish curry is the order.
Dosa
Thali
Paratha
Fish CurryRegional and North Indian
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Rajasthani food, which is rare in LA. The maharaja thali is the way to try a bit of everything.
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Half sweet shop, half Punjabi restaurant in the Valley. Have the chole bhature, then take a box of sweets home.
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A counter-service spot built around stuffed parathas, cheap and filling.
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A small kitchen at the back of a family-run grocery, cooking both North and South Indian dishes.
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A dependable neighbourhood place with good-value combo meals, useful for a weeknight takeout.
Chole Bhature
Dal Tadka
VindalooPakistani and biryani
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Pakistani and Bangladeshi cooking in Koreatown. The nihari and the lamb biryani bring people back.
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A tiny market with a famous biryani that often sells out. Go early.
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An old-school Pakistani grill house near LAX, best for tandoori meats straight from the oven.
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A plain room with very good home-style Pakistani curries.
Seekh Kebab
Chicken BiryaniHow we chose
Picked from The Infatuation's Los Angeles guide to Indian and Pakistani restaurants and checked against each restaurant's own site and menu. Dishes listed are ones the sources single out. Restaurants change, close and lose or gain stars, so check before you travel. Spotted something out of date? Tell us.
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