Downtown's 40-Seat 'Cosmic Tuscan' Supper Club Made The Infatuation's Hit List Without a Score

Chef Elisa Da Prato's Tuscan room at 108 W. 2nd St. opened May 16, 2026. The Infatuation's August 20, 2026 write-up praises the linguine and the sage-butter pasta and assigns no rating.

Forty seats, four nights a week, and antipasti that arrive under rose petals and lavender honey. That is Da Prato, a Tuscan restaurant in a concrete loft at 108 W. 2nd St. in downtown Los Angeles, from chef Elisa Da Prato, formerly of Eutrusca, and designer Brittany Asch. It opened on May 16, 2026, which makes the current rush of attention a delayed one.

The trigger was August 20, 2026, when The Infatuation added the restaurant to its Hit List of new LA restaurants to try right now, in a review by senior staff writer Sylvio Martins. So the honest framing is not a debut. It is a three-month-old restaurant that just got a big write-up, and if you are trying to book a table this month, that distinction explains everything about how hard it will be.

What the concept actually promises

The menu is handwritten and draws on Roman poetry and mythology. The chef hosts workshops in what the restaurant calls "metaphysical pasta-making." The Infatuation's review describes a room closer to an echoey art gallery than a trattoria, and food it calls uncomplicated and delicious underneath all of it.

My take: "cosmic Tuscan" is a concept with a built-in escape hatch, because a dusting of cosmic energy is not a thing anyone can send back. What keeps this from being a costume is that the dishes named in the review are boring in the good way. Linguine alla trabaccolara with white fish and tart pomodoro is a Tuscan fisherman's pasta, not an invention. The outlet also singles out fresh pasta sheets in sage butter, marketed as "nymph-inspired" and, per the review, sauced like a Tuesday.

The receipt nobody is mentioning

We read the review, and there is no number on it. The Infatuation's own ratings key says an unrated listing means a restaurant it wants to re-visit before assigning a score. On the same page, the outlet's suggested comparisons carry theirs: Antico Nuovo in Koreatown at 9.2, Bestia in the Arts District at 9.1. Chi Spacca in Hancock Park sits at 8.5.

That is not a knock. It is the difference between a place a critic likes and a place a critic has finished thinking about. One critic, one paragraph, no score — and reading that menu, I get why the second visit is worth waiting for.

What we do not know

The review does not carry menu prices, so what an evening of lamb chops, figs and sangiovese costs here is not something this desk can tell you. It does not say whether the pasta-making workshops are open to the public, what they cost, or how often they run. And it is one critic's take from one visit, published on August 20, 2026; no second published review has reached this desk. If a rating lands later, it will be worth reading against the Hit List entry that got everyone's attention first.

Source: theinfatuation.com, retrieved August 28, 2026.