Graduation dinner downtown/westside

[dkeppler]

Daughter (vegetarian with a side of fish) is graduating from USC next month, looking for places for a couple of special dinners over the weekend. Prefer downtown or westside, don't want to drive all over LA no matter how good it is. Kids adore sushi but hubby and I are lukewarm on it so somewhere with sushi/fusion would be great one night (Katsuya at LA Live?), maybe a great steakhouse the other night (BOA in Santa Monica?), seafood or Latin/Spanish cuisine since she's moving to Argentina in a few months. We aren't super foodie types but all enjoy an unusual creative menu with great service and comfortable upscale ambience. Suggestions please? Thx all!

[Phurstluv]

Or you could do steak downtown at The Palm or Taylors Steakhouse and sushi at Katsuya in Brentwood, which has a gorgeous room.

Providence is the best seafood resto in LA, IMO, but it is ultra high end. Matsuhisa is a good fit, as is Roy's. For Latin / Spanish, Rivera would work. but you may want to look into his other resto that I've heard good things about, Playa, it's in MidCity.

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Matsuhisa
129 N La Cienega Blvd, Beverly Hills, CA 90211

Taylor's Steakhouse
3361 West 8th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90005

Playa
7360 Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90036

[wienermobile]

For sushi/fusion I love the original Matsuhisa in Beverly Hills.
http://www.nobumatsuhisa.com/

For steaks I like Wolfgang Puck's Cut also in Beverly Hills . Great but very expensive.
http://www.wolfgangpuck.com/restauran...

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Cut
9500 Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills, CA 90212

Matsuhisa
129 N La Cienega Blvd, Beverly Hills, CA 90211

[dkeppler]

Just went to Roy's this past weekend!

[Servorg]

If you want something other than Roy's then check out Rivera or even WP 24.

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Rivera Restaurant
1050 S. Flower Street, #102, Los Angeles, CA 90015

WP24
900 W Olympic Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90015

[Servorg]

Take a look at Roy's downtown.

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Roy's Restaurant
800 S Figueroa St, Los Angeles, CA 90017

[wienermobile]

+1 for Roy's. Very good fresh seafood.