Wilde's
Hearty English-inspired fare, including meat pie and Welsh rarebit.
The kitchen runs English pub fare: meat pie, Welsh rarebit, and other hearty plates.
Rustic seasonal fare and natural wine.
Hours
- BrunchMon–Fri: ClosedSat–Sun: 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM
- CafeOpen Thursday to Sunday 8:00am to 1:00pm.
- RestaurantOpen Tuesday to Saturday 5:30pm to 10:00pm.
The menu
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Cafe is open Thursday to Sunday from 8am to 1pm and for dinner from 5:30pm to 10:30pm.
Per Resy, the menu is focused on hearty English-inspired fare served in a charming candlelit room with warm wood finishings.
The restaurant serves dinner from Tuesday to Saturday and breakfast on Thursday to Sunday.
Guests order at the counter and little glass pedestals of sausage rolls, persimmon tea cakes, scones and quiche line the shelves near the register.
The menu features meat pie, Welsh rarebit, and plenty of wine.
The restaurant just began to roll out a daytime café menu, which means pastries, sausage rolls, and more opportunities for seating.
The crumbed duck leg starter is well-crusted and gently fried, served alongside herbed aioli and pickled carrots.
It has upscale comfort food.
The menu features a British-inspired selection including meat pie and Welsh rarebit.
Wilde's doesn't just look the part. It flips the entire stodgy British food cliché on its head, too.
You can order the Stilton and persimmons, a lighter but still flavorful choice.
Wilde's serves natural wines, Welsh rarebit, and meat pie filled with guinea fowl in the evening.
You'll order a bottle from the small, low-intervention-focused wine list and consider moving to a vineyard in Basque country.
The menu at Wilde's naturally will change and adapt.
Wilde's offers hearty, ingredient-driven food that is very seasonal.
The daytime menu features dishes priced between $9 and $16.
Dinner prices range from $7 to $52.
Wilde's is rewriting the American perception of what a beverage list should look like at a British dining establishment.
Wilde's recasts British comfort as something lighter, more cosmopolitan, and distinctly Los Angeles.
Wilde's offers sausage rolls and pastries during the day from its bakery window.
Battered skate is served with a creamy mint chutney and thick-cut fries.
The menu of baked goods and a handful of cooked snacky things still smacks solidly of the Commonwealth, however, including soft-boiled eggs with toast soldiers, a sausage roll, a bacon-heavy breakfast sandwich, and, of course, a proper bowl of porridge.
The menu includes fish and chips are made with battered sea bass and mint, as well as bangers and mash made with a mustard seed-dotted whole bratwurst.
For dessert, find Eton mess with crushed meringue, sticky toffee pudding, and a jam-filled Bakewell tart.
The battered fish, which rotates in variety, is fried to a golden crisp and plated over a gorgeous green mint sauce.
The decadent bangers and mash is just one example of Durning flexing her abilities.
The rich slices of Welsh rarebit are a rarity in Los Angeles.
An order ends up on almost every table, as it should when batter is this light and crunchy, and the mint sauce so appropriately creamy-tangy.
We'd happily come to Wilde's for a meat pie and a glass of wine, even knowing that this pie is $68.
For dessert, the Eton mess is all whipped cream, light-as-air meringue, and bright fruit.
Guests queue for lightly battered sea bass fried to a shattering crisp.
The Welsh rarebit is filling, deeply savory, and an easy split for two.
The meat pie for two offers guinea fowl and leeks in a buttery crust.
The steelhead crudo and chicory salad are described as 'bright and earthy.'.
A standout dish is the battered skate served with a minty, herbal-bright green sauce.
Among her favorite dishes are a duck breast and a cold celeriac salad with pork cracklings.
Sticky toffee pudding dessert is dusted with aged vanilla jaggery and served in a creamy-tart pool of crème fraîche anglaise.
Wilde's features a meat pie filled with guinea fowl.
A great martini and steak frites were enjoyed at Hermon's.
Wilde's menu shows seafood-meat-focus.
Wilde's food offering is focused.
Wilde's food offering shows substantial change across observed menu captures.
The wine
5Wilde's describes its program as natural wine.
The wine list is structured and bottle-focused, with dedicated orange sections.
The list moves through bubbles, white, orange, pink, and red.
There's a by-the-glass program.
Large-format bottles are available.
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Wilde's offers corkage.
Wilde's maintains a structured, bottle-focused wine list with dedicated orange sections.
Wilde's self-describes its wine program as natural wine.
Wilde's offers a by-the-glass wine program.
Wilde's offers large-format bottles.
Maintains a dedicated wine list.
Service
2Reservations are accepted.
It offers table service.
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Reservations are accepted.
Wilde's, full-service.
The room
1The room is candlelit. The room lets diners watch the street. The room has warm wood finishings. White tablecloths set the tables. The room reads like a hosted dinner party. Per Resy, the restaurant has quickly become a hot spot in the neighborhood. Per Off-Menu Magazine, the restaurant is rarely lit by artificial light, creating a warm and inviting atmosphere. Per Eater LA, it's a welcome break from the ring-light-influencer parts of Los Angeles's dining scene. Per Los Angeles Times, Four days a week the line for Wilde's stretches down the block, even in the rain.
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Per Resy, the restaurant has quickly become a hot spot in the neighborhood.
It's a welcome break from the ring-light-influencer parts of Los Angeles's dining scene.
The restaurant sits on a corner with large, inviting windows, letting diners cozily observe passersby from within.
Wilde's is the closest thing Los Angeles has to a British countryside pub.
Dining at Wilde's is like being invited to your favorite dinner party.
Wilde's debuted on a busy stretch of Hillhurst in Los Feliz.
The dining room is small, reservations go fast, and though they save room for walk-ins nightly, wait times get long.
Four days a week the line for Wilde's stretches down the block, even in the rain.
The restaurant is rarely lit by artificial light, creating a warm and inviting atmosphere.
People often say, 'It feels like I'm in someone's home,' and it's because they kind of are.
The restaurant has a neighborhood-haunt energy despite its newness.
The restaurant offers elite people-watching opportunities.
Lace curtains, vintage sconces, and the occasional animal portrait accent the space.
The entry's logo casts a shadow on the ground, greeting customers eager for Welsh rarebit.
It has an intimate interior.
The cozy 10-table space with woodworking and wainscoting underwent 'a restoration more than renovation.'.
In the afternoon, the dining room glows as sunlight pours into a window that looks onto the sidewalk. After it gets dark, candles flicker at each white tablecloth-topped table.
The dining room is small, wood-paneled, and softly lit.
The room or service reads as being hosted into someone's home, like a dinner party, rather than is served in a restaurant.
Candles or equivalent low, warm sources are the room's working light.
Warm wood is the room's dominant material register.
The room has direct visual exposure to the street through substantial glazing or an open front.
The room's seating and sightlines put diners in a position to watch the street or passersby while dining.
White tablecloths are present, a formality register carried by material.
Press describes the room as crowded.
Operations
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- You can dine in, order beer, and order wine, at an expensive price level.
- Parking
- There's free street parking and paid street parking.
- Access
- The parking, seating, and entrance are wheelchair accessible.
- Payment
- It takes contactless payments, debit cards, and credit cards.
The space
1The room fronts the street.
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Per Resy, the restaurant has quickly become a hot spot in the neighborhood.
It's a welcome break from the ring-light-influencer parts of Los Angeles's dining scene.
The restaurant sits on a corner with large, inviting windows, letting diners cozily observe passersby from within.
Wilde's is the closest thing Los Angeles has to a British countryside pub.
Dining at Wilde's is like being invited to your favorite dinner party.
Wilde's debuted on a busy stretch of Hillhurst in Los Feliz.
The dining room is small, reservations go fast, and though they save room for walk-ins nightly, wait times get long.
Four days a week the line for Wilde's stretches down the block, even in the rain.
The restaurant is rarely lit by artificial light, creating a warm and inviting atmosphere.
People often say, 'It feels like I'm in someone's home,' and it's because they kind of are.
The restaurant has a neighborhood-haunt energy despite its newness.
The restaurant offers elite people-watching opportunities.
Lace curtains, vintage sconces, and the occasional animal portrait accent the space.
The entry's logo casts a shadow on the ground, greeting customers eager for Welsh rarebit.
It has an intimate interior.
The cozy 10-table space with woodworking and wainscoting underwent 'a restoration more than renovation.'.
In the afternoon, the dining room glows as sunlight pours into a window that looks onto the sidewalk. After it gets dark, candles flicker at each white tablecloth-topped table.
The dining room is small, wood-paneled, and softly lit.
The room or service reads as being hosted into someone's home, like a dinner party, rather than is served in a restaurant.
Candles or equivalent low, warm sources are the room's working light.
Warm wood is the room's dominant material register.
The room has direct visual exposure to the street through substantial glazing or an open front.
The room's seating and sightlines put diners in a position to watch the street or passersby while dining.
White tablecloths are present, a formality register carried by material.
Press describes the room as crowded.
History
3Wilde's opened in late October in the former Thai on Hillhurst space.
Ettensberger and Price hosted a supper club called Seconds with two friends during 2023.
Natasha's knowledge of British cuisine broadened with visits to her aunt's home in Midhurst.
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Per Resy, the restaurant opened in late October in the former Thai on Hillhurst space.
Ettensberger and Price hosted a supper club called Seconds with two friends during 2023.
Natasha's knowledge of British cuisine broadened with visits to her aunt's home in Midhurst.
The people
2Natasha Price is the owner and executive chef.
Tatiana Ettensberger is the owner and beverage director.
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Natasha Price is the owner and executive chef.
Tatiana Ettensberger is the owner and beverage director.
Per Los Angeles Times, Owners Natasha Price and Tatiana Ettensberger envisioned Wilde's as a kind of walk-in restaurant built for the neighborhood.
Wilde's was opened by lifelong friends Natasha Price and Tatiana Ettensberger.
Tatiana is the previous general manager and wine buyer at Cafe Tristé.
Tatiana Ettensberger aspired to feed Angelenos in a warm, homey, European way.
Natasha Price began cooking professionally at 18, while Tatiana Ettensberger found her way to wine after college while working a marketing job.
In the press
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Wilde's is at 1850 Hillhurst Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90027.