Restaurant Review: Koi, West Hollywood
Koi is one of those trendy L.A. eateries where the cuisine and the scene coexist in a surprisingly healthy balance. Being the favored Japanese restaurant of many in Hollywood, Koi offers great people-watching opportunities in a stylish setting.
Koi is dividend into several distinct areas including both an indoor and an open air patio dining. The main dining area is accented with feng shui elements of bamboo reeds, sheer burnt orange curtains, trickling water, soft lighting from votive candle light and fireplaces.
The chef’s brilliant fusions of Japanese and Californian cuisine account for the repeat clientele.
Koi also delivers some high quality sushi and contemporary Japanese cooking. The food is wonderful (overpriced, but wonderful). Reflecting the restaurant’s modern sensibilities are dishes such as tuna tartare with avocado on crispy won tons, and seared toro sashimi with garlic soy. Hot dishes include Chilean sea bass with ginger and shiitake mushrooms, miso-glazed black cod, and Kobe beef (paired with seared foie gras as a starter or grilled toban-yaki-style as an entrée).
Koi has a calming ambience that is a welcome relief from the hectic Melrose scene just outside the ornately carved gates.
You will be impressed with one of the horseshoe booths on the back patio amid Buddha statues and candlelight.
Koi
730 N. La Cienega Blvd.
West Hollywood, CA
310-659-9449
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