Sara Kramer and Sarah Hymanson’s Los Feliz restaurant Kismet epitomizes an aesthetic that emerged last decade — one that cherrypicked lighter aspects of Levantine and Western Asian cuisines and grafted them to California’s abundance.
In their blonde wood dining room, with its patchwork of foldable and flippable tables to growing or decreasing sizes depending on the group, the duo offers modern Israeli cuisine, tossing handfuls of herbs onto the plate, while underlying the whole meal with flaky bread, dense, swipe-able sauces, and fresh flavors.
Kismet received a Best New Restaurant award from James Beard Foundation in 2018.