Vegan has never tasted so good as it does in Ann Gentry's stylish West Hollywood café, where meat and super-refined ingredients are hardly missed. The culinary trailblazer and former personal chef to Danny DeVito has spent most of her professional life raising the bar for vegetarian and vegan gastronomy, and Real Food Daily serves as a proud testament to her success. Customers line up out the door to sample the New World vegan cuisine, making the La Cienega Boulevard location equally as popular as the original in Santa Monica. It's easy to forget that gourmet entrées – from Salisbury seitan and tomato-coconut curry to a cold soba noodle salad and fully stuffed Southwestern burritos – are 100 percent vegan and organic when they taste this good (and are this filling!) Don't forget naturally sweetened (and often gluten-free) desserts. No alcohol available. Serving lunch and dinner daily. Sun brunch 10 am–3 pm.
Where the Locals Eat Rating
Best Vegetarian
Top 100 Restaurant, Los Angeles
"Real Food Daily's New World Vegan Cuisine continues to draw crowds who enjoy delicious, balanced meals made fresh with organic ingredients."
– Real Food Daily website
"A cult following flocks to this tasty restaurant to gobble up Ann Gentry's ingenious seasonal vegan comfort food."
—American Way magazine
"A call for vegans! You and like-minded organic vegetarian food enthusiasts can now dine at the new Real Food Daily in West Hollywood. ... It's a virtuous restaurant all right, one that studiously avoids meat, dairy, unnecessary fats and wheat, and refined sugars, preservatives and dairy. ... On a weekday night, there's a line out the door. ... The place has a hip look, too."
—Los Angeles Times
"The best parts of RFD's flavors aren't a dead ringer for that dry stuff we call 'health food,' which probably has something to do with the restaurants' longevity."
—Brentwood Magazine
How others rate Real Food Daily
Zagat 2008
21 Food Rating (Very Good to Excellent)