Canele

Corina Weibel heads the open kitchen and Jane Choi run the front of the house of their warm California-French restaurant in otherwise sleepy Atwater Village. The menu appears on blackboards and yields options like duck confit with fig sherry sauce and Buena chica cheesecake with a Graham cracker crust. Locals luxuriate during Sunday brunch, which is an easy walk to that day’s weekly farmers market.