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RVR (Venice)

Oct 09, 2025
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RESTAURANTS • First Person

Chef Travis Lett’s buzzy California-Japanese izakaya RVR was an immediate hit the second it opened in Venice — “one of the most stylish, most delicious, and most surprisingly fun restaurants to land on the west side in quite some time,” we said in October 2024.

Since that opening, RVR has consistently rated as one of the toughes…

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