Five Top Tables

The Best Restaurants to Book in Los Angeles If You’re Not at Coachella

The best inexpensive sushi place you don’t know about and a celebrity-friendly Korean spot make the list.

The food and drink scene at Maydan Market in West Adams.

Photographer: Ashley Randall

Welcome to Five Top Tables , a column from Bloomberg Pursuits to guide your dining decisions in major cities around the world, including New York , Paris , London, Manila , Hong Kong and New Delhi .

Mid-April is one of the best times of the year to visit Los Angeles if you’re a food lover. For two weekends at the dawn of spring, the traffic ebbs and the line at your favorite Thai restaurant grows a little shorter when the Coachella Valley Arts & Music Festival draws over a hundred thousand people (many of them Angelenos) to the desert to watch Justin Bieber play the hits.