Mere steps from The Broad Museum in downtown L.A., Otium (which loosely translates to “leisure” in Latin) is the communal-dining, open-kitchen endeavor of chef-owner Timothy Hollingsworth. Relaxed New American cuisine (think Berkshire pork chops, a Snake River Farms New York strip steak, and even a foie-gras funnel cake) is his focus, though he employs enough traditional techniques (wood-burning oven, restaurant-grown herbs) to maintain a certain level of rusticity. Otium is one of the most noteworthy indoor-outdoor spots in town, not least because, in a city so modern, it faces a small grove of 100-year-old olive trees, planted across the street in the Broad’s plaza.
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