Los Angeles has seen an influx of popular out-of-town restaurants setting up shop recently: the Shake Shack invasion has begun, Andy Ricker’s Pok Pok now graces us with its innovative Thai dishes, and fellow Portlandians Salt & Straw and Blue Star Donuts both have multiple LA spots to blast through killer ice cream and donuts.

As the great philosopher Tom Petty once said: “The waiting is the hardest part.”