Australian restaurants, cafés and bars in LA

LA has plenty of Australians but only a short list of Aussie venues we could confirm in 2026. Here they are, plus how to find the footy.

The short version

Great White is the Aussie surf-culture café you'll keep going back to, with six sites from Venice to Studio City [1][2].
Gwen in Hollywood is Melbourne-born chef Curtis Stone's butcher shop and fire-cooking restaurant, run with his brother Luke [3].
Bluestone Lane brings Aussie-style coffee to Westwood, Manhattan Beach and Downtown LA [5].
The LA Dragons say they throw LA's biggest AFL Grand Final party every year [6].
The list is short on purpose. Several Aussie names have closed or we couldn't confirm them.

How we built this list

We started with the Australian venues LA Aussies mention most, then checked each one's own website in November 2026. We only kept venues whose site was live and still showed an Australian link.

That ruled out a few. Curtis Stone's fine-dining restaurant Maude closed on 28 September 2024 [4]. Bondi Harvest's site now covers recipes and products, with no LA café listed. We also couldn't confirm a few others, including an Aussie coffee bar, a British pub that used to show the cricket and a pie maker, so we've left them out rather than send you to a locked door. If you know one is still going, tell us in the group.

Cafés and brunch

Great White

Area: Venice, Manhattan Beach, Brentwood, Larchmont Village, West Hollywood (Melrose Avenue) and Studio City

Great White says it brings Australian café culture to its neighbourhoods, and its logo nods to Australian surf culture [1]. Venice on Pacific Avenue is the flagship and runs a cocktail bar with a happy hour. The West Hollywood site has a natural wine bar, and Larchmont Village is the one for an Aussie brunch on the patio [1][2]. At lunch, look for the chilli prawn linguine [1]. It feels like a Bondi or Byron café that's moved closer to the 405.

Bluestone Lane

Area: Westwood, Manhattan Beach and Downtown LA

Bluestone Lane is the Australian-inspired chain you'll see right across the US, with more than 55 cafés and coffee shops [5]. In the LA area, its locations page lists cafés in Westwood near UCLA and on Manhattan Beach Boulevard, and a licensed coffee shop on South Figueroa Street downtown [5]. It's a safe bet for a decent flat white when you're nowhere near Venice.

Restaurants

Gwen

Area: Hollywood

Gwen is the most Australian dinner in town. Curtis Stone runs it with his brother Luke, and it's named after their grandmother Gwen, who lived on a farm outside Melbourne. That farm is where the brothers first saw livestock farming, and both started out in butcher shops [3]. Gwen is half old-world butcher shop, half elegant restaurant, with an à la carte menu built around cooking over fire [3]. It has a pre-theatre menu and takes walk-ins as well as bookings, which makes it handy before a show in Hollywood [3]. Order the meat. That's the point.

Where to watch the AFL and NRL

LA has no dedicated Aussie sports bar we could confirm in 2026. The good news is the footy club fills the gap.

Go to the LA Dragons' Grand Final party. The club says it hosts LA's biggest AFL Grand Final party every year [6]. The venue changes, so contact the club or follow its Instagram from August.
Know the time. The AFL Grand Final lands on Friday night in LA, which is perfect. The NRL decider is in the small hours of Sunday, which isn't.
Call a sports bar ahead. Plenty of LA sports bars will screen a match if you ring ahead, but confirm they carry the right streaming service before you rally the crew.
Ask the group. NRL, State of Origin and cricket watch-ups are organised informally, usually in the Facebook group.

The Dragons also play, and they welcome newcomers. Our guide to Aussie life in Los Angeles has more on the club, G'Day USA and the wider community.

All the venues at a glance

Venue	Type	Area
Great White	Café, brunch, wine and cocktail bar	Venice; Manhattan Beach; Brentwood; Larchmont; West Hollywood; Studio City
Bluestone Lane	Café chain	Westwood; Manhattan Beach; Downtown LA
Gwen	Restaurant, butcher shop	Hollywood

Aussie products and meat pies

We couldn't confirm an Australian grocery shop in LA in 2026. Bigger supermarkets and import shops carry some Aussie brands, and prices are steep. For pies, ask in the community. The LA Dragons list a sponsor called Aussie Pies and Sausage, so the footy club is a good place to start asking [7].

Want more tips like this? Join Cooee USA, our Facebook group for Australians in the USA, where members swap where to find a decent pie, which bar has the footy on and who just spotted Tim Tams on a shelf.

A tip before you go: hours and menus change. Check the venue's own site before you drive across town.

Australian restaurants, cafés and bars in Los Angeles: surf cafés and a Melbourne butcher