71Above Los Angeles

71Above sits on the 71st floor of 633 W 5th Street, a fifteen-minute walk from the Walt Disney Concert Hall. The restaurant holds a Wine Spectator Excellence Award, and the room runs smart and elegant.

The draw here is the elevation. While many dining rooms in downtown Los Angeles prioritize a street-level presence to capture foot traffic, this space trades that accessibility for a bird's-eye perspective of the city. You choose this contemporary, fusion-leaning kitchen for the vantage point over the concrete grid below, which is a departure from the subterranean, tunnel-like feel common in many neighboring venues. It is a calculated trade-off: you sacrifice the ease of walking in from the street for a view that reaches as far as the coastline on clear days.