Best Pre-Theater Restaurants in Sherman Oaks

Dinner before the theater for 2 of us Saturday night. Made reservations earlier that day. We were very pleased with everything. We did the dinner & show parking package. We were given a perfect table. The restaurant was not busy at first but was filled quickly. Our servers were wonderful with suggestions & service was excellent. The food was outstanding. Highly recommend the spicy eggplant starter, Jamie kale salad, vodka sauce was delicious (special sample pasta) & pork osso buca. Tiramusu was delicious 😋. We will return for sure. We waited until our show time at the Aster Hotel rooftop Lemon Grove lounge. Super cool.

Brussel sprout starter & Burrata starter: perfect. Life Gives You Lemons cocktail: Perfect. Lemon Pasta: Perfect. The outdoor, plant-plentiful setting was perfect for a date night.

The space is dark, food is remarkable and service is top notch. We had quite a few dishes including the crispy Brussels sprouts, sashimi moriawase, New York strip and short ribs. All were delicious. The evening we went, they had special cocktails celebrating the Wicked production at the Pantages across the street. Our celebrant had the Glinda, which was a very fun tasting drink - strawberry, Prosecco mix.

All courses of the food were excellent as was the service.

We told the waiter we needed to be out of there to make an 8pm theater time and some of the mains were brought at 7:40. Unfortunate that they cost &35 and we only got to eat 3 bites