Restaurants in North Glendale

Friends and business partners Oscar Chavez, Mario Ordoñez, and Jose Ciro Aguilar mine their collective experience to curate 12 Washington Restaurant’s sophisticated cuisine and ambiance. The dining room’s crisp, white table cloths and soft lighting provide the perfect backdrop for plates of escargot or oysters on the half shell, and glasses of wine and champagne tempt the thirsty grey gargoyles perched above and around the front outdoor patio. Elegant dinner entrees such as filet mignon, osso bucco, and rack of lamb sate evening appetites, while benedicts, omelets, and salads ease diners out of their dinner jackets and into their brunch pantsuits.

With its bright neon signs, Cafe 50's glows like a landlocked lighthouse, signaling to travelers looking for a blend of mid-20th century dining and decor. Breakfast fires all day long on their stainless steel grill, alongside steaks, hamburgers, and grilled sandwiches. In between bites, diners can sing along to their favorite song thanks to jukebox consoles at every booth. Cafe 50's also crafts exactly 42 deluxe milk shake varieties including chocolate banana, strawberry cheesecake, and butterscotch bonanza. Meanwhile, turning glass carousels at the front counter trap the smell of freshly baked pies, acting like time capsules on a planet populated by giant noses.

Like when the tech world first put a camera into a phone, something many assumed impossible, Chop Stop brings healthiness to speedy dining with more than a dozen signature salads for dine-in or carryout. They also offer custom salads to allow diners to blend a choice of greens with a dressing and up to six toppings from a selection of more than 40. The eatery's commitment to human health dovetails with their responsible practices toward the planet itself, using locally grown produce and compostable bowls and cups that vanish off the face of the Earth in a manner almost as sustainable as bowls made of a magician's ace of clubs

Servers circulate continuously through Samba, pausing tableside to carve morsels of mesquite-grilled meat that are the hallmark of all-you-can-eat churrasco meals. A buffet of fresh salad and ceviche gives diners a chance to stretch their legs and add variation to the endless courses of brazilian sausage, bacon-wrapped chicken, and sirloin steak.

At the Universal City location, nooks for groups to squeeze into and clusters of mod white couches stand out against glowing orange walls. On certain nights, meals are accompanied by a chorus of smooth-limbed showgirls, catalyzing the party for those who have not taken a churrasco approach to the more than 20 versions of Brazil's national cocktail available at the caipirinha bar.

Culture 22 stocks its carnivore-pleasing menu with porterhouses, bacon-topped burgers, and seafood. Peppercorn-crusted 12-ounce new york steak au poivre bathes in a cognac sauce, and a dozen oysters paired with inventive dipping sauces from the raw bar set taste buds out to sea. The signature New Mexican–style green-chile burger imbues a half-pound of beef with piquant Southwestern flavors, accompanied by french fries that, like wooden boards in a martial-arts studio, are hand-cut. As diners divvy up jumbo cocktail shrimp, servers ferry cocktails and beer to ebony four-top tables set aglow by chandelier and candle lighting.