# TAO, Los Angeles: an asian restaurant in Los Angeles (2026 guide) Source: Local AI Registry, https://localairegistry.com/biz/ca/los-angeles/tao-los-angeles-ca. Free to reuse with a link back. By Steve Lee, founder and CEO of Local AI Registry. Fact-checked against 15 sources. Updated 2026-09-01. Owner review: not yet. Canonical: https://localairegistry.com/biz/ca/los-angeles/tao-los-angeles-ca ## Photos - ![Photo 1](https://localairegistry.com/api/photo?src=https%3A%2F%2Fseoaesthetic-assets.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com%2Fphotos%2Fcmti84ayv02fcye6bhj1h00hk%2F0.jpg) - ![Photo 2](https://localairegistry.com/api/photo?src=https%3A%2F%2Fseoaesthetic-assets.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com%2Fphotos%2Fcmti84ayv02fcye6bhj1h00hk%2F1.jpg) - ![Photo 3](https://localairegistry.com/api/photo?src=https%3A%2F%2Fseoaesthetic-assets.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com%2Fphotos%2Fcmti84ayv02fcye6bhj1h00hk%2F2.jpg) - ![Photo 4](https://localairegistry.com/api/photo?src=https%3A%2F%2Fseoaesthetic-assets.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com%2Fphotos%2Fcmti84ayv02fcye6bhj1h00hk%2F3.jpg) - ![Photo 5](https://localairegistry.com/api/photo?src=https%3A%2F%2Fseoaesthetic-assets.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com%2Fphotos%2Fcmti84ayv02fcye6bhj1h00hk%2F4.jpg) ## In short TAO is an asian restaurant in Los Angeles, CA. Its AI Score is 26 of 100, which is poor. Every fact on this page carries one of three marks: Confirmed (from their website, Google Business Profile, review sites, licensing boards, or measured by Local AI Registry), Visitor submitted (added by a person, with a date and how they know), or AI guess (what AI engines like ChatGPT are saying, not confirmed by anyone). Every mark points to a reference at the end of this page. ## Key facts | Fact | Value | | --- | --- | | Type | Asian restaurant | | Address | 6421 Selma Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90028, USA | | Hours | Mon to Thu 5 AM to 11 PM · Fri to Sat 5 PM to 12 AM · Sun 11 AM to 2:30 PM and 5 AM to 11 PM | | Phone | (323) 593-7888 | | Owner | Nothing found | | Rating | 4.4 across 2,036 reviews on Google | | Known for | Nothing found | | Prices | Nothing found | | Quietest time | Monday | | Parking | Nothing found | | Last verified | September 19, 2026, 10:11 AM | ## All the details Every row is something the owner can add or correct. Each one is marked Confirmed, Visitor submitted or AI guess, with where it came from. | Group | Fact | Value | Mark | Evidence | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Location info | Address | 6421 Selma Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90028, USA | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 31, 2026 | | Location info | Description | This enormous Pan-Asian restaurant is known for a giant Quan Yin statue & trendy crowd. | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 31, 2026 | | Location info | Hours | Mon to Thu 5:00 to 11:00 PM · Fri to Sat 5:00 PM to 12:00 AM · Sun 11:00 AM to 2:30 PM, 5:00 to 11:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 31, 2026 | | Location info | Mondays | 5:00 to 11:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 31, 2026 | | Location info | Name | TAO | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 31, 2026 | | Location info | Phone | (323) 593-7888 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 31, 2026 | | Hours | Monday | 5:00 AM to 11:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 31, 2026 | | Hours | Tuesday | 5:00 AM to 11:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 31, 2026 | | Hours | Wednesday | 5:00 AM to 11:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 31, 2026 | | Hours | Thursday | 5:00 AM to 11:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 31, 2026 | | Hours | Friday | 5:00 PM to 12:00 AM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 31, 2026 | | Hours | Saturday | 5:00 PM to 12:00 AM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 31, 2026 | | Hours | Sunday | 11:00 AM to 2:30 PM and 5:00 AM to 11:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 31, 2026 | | Services | Service | 2022 veterans day weekend offer | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 | | Services | Service | 2023 holiday giving | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 | | Services | Service | 2023 sleepout | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 | | Services | Service | Autism awareness month | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 | | Services | Service | Black history month awareness | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 | | Services | Service | College intern program | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 | | Services | Service | Dim sum | AI guess | Nothing found | | Services | Service | Dim sum memories | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 | | Services | Service | Event hosting | AI guess | Nothing found | | Services | Service | Fold steam eat repeat | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 | | Services | Service | Lavo exactly like nothing else | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 | | Services | Service | Mid autumn festival | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 | | Services | Service | Pan-Asian cuisine | AI guess | Nothing found | | Services | Service | Perfect patisserie | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 | | Services | Service | Stanton social prime | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 | | Services | Service | Womens empowerment month | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 | | Links | Facebook | https://facebook.com/taolosangeles | AI guess | Our record | | Links | Instagram | https://instagram.com/taola | AI guess | Our record | | Links | TikTok | https://tiktok.com/@taogrouphospitality | AI guess | Our record | | Links | Website | http://taolosangeles.com/ | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 31, 2026 | ## Services and prices These are the 13 services TAO offers, with the price where we have one and where it came from. | Service | Price | Price mark | Price evidence | Service mark | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Autism awareness month | | | | Confirmed | | Black history month awareness | | | | Confirmed | | College intern program | | | | Confirmed | | Womens empowerment month | | | | Confirmed | | Stanton social prime | | | | Confirmed | | Mid autumn festival | | | | Confirmed | | Lavo exactly like nothing else | | | | Confirmed | | 2023 holiday giving | | | | Confirmed | | 2023 sleepout | | | | Confirmed | | Dim sum memories | | | | Confirmed | | 2022 veterans day weekend offer | | | | Confirmed | | Fold steam eat repeat | | | | Confirmed | | Perfect patisserie | | | | Confirmed | ### Known for Reviews not read yet, back on Scan Day. ## The team Nothing found ## Visiting TAO Address: 6421 Selma Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90028, USA. Phone: (323) 593-7888. Hours: Mon to Thu 5 AM to 11 PM · Fri to Sat 5 PM to 12 AM · Sun 11 AM to 2:30 PM and 5 AM to 11 PM. (Confirmed, Google Business Profile, checked August 31, 2026 at 10:25 PM.) ### Location info from Google Business Profile Business description, written by TAO on its Google Business Profile: "This enormous Pan-Asian restaurant is known for a giant Quan Yin statue & trendy crowd." ### When to go Quietest day: Monday. Busiest day: Saturday. From the popular times on its Google listing. ### Parking and getting in Nothing found ### Nearby | Place | Type | Distance | | --- | --- | --- | | Dream Rooftop | Bar & grill | 1 min walk | | Dream Hollywood Parking | Parking garage | 1 min walk | | KAIF HOLLYWOOD | Restaurant | 1 min walk | | 1614 Wilcox Ave Parking | Parking lot | 1 min walk | | Jerusalemite Angelo | Middle eastern restaurant | 1 min walk | | California Parking Lot | Parking lot | 1 min walk | ## Reputation 4.4 average across 2,036 reviews: Google 25. (Confirmed, read August 31, 2026.) While TAO is praised for its vibrant atmosphere and attentive staff, it struggles with service consistency and food quality, particularly during busy times. (AI guess, from 2,036 reviews.) ### What people like - Delicious sushi and Mongolian beef - Unique and beautiful decor ### What people do not like - Long waits for seating despite reservations - Poor communication regarding waitlist and table readiness - Inconsistent food quality, with some dishes being overly greasy or sweet ### Press No press story about TAO found yet. ### Awards None named yet. ### Directories Directory listings not read yet. ## Recent updates from TAO TAO hasn't posted an update here yet. ## Questions people ask ### torn between this place and King Buffet? No answer yet ### any last minute tables at TAO? No answer yet ### parking at TAO, where does everyone put the car? No answer yet ### best asian restaurant in Los Angeles No answer yet ### what is actually on the menu here? No answer yet ### Why do people rate TAO? No answer yet ### anywhere cheaper than TAO in Los Angeles that is still good? No answer yet ### Booking a first visit at TAO, what happens? No answer yet ### Do they post anywhere? No answer yet ### walk in at TAO in Los Angeles, or is it appointment only? No answer yet ### going rate for restaurants locally, any idea No answer yet ### opening hours here, what are they these days? No answer yet ### anything people actually moan about here? No answer yet ### lunch near Selma, what is good No answer yet ### Busiest day at TAO, anyone know? No answer yet ### Worth the hype at TAO? No answer yet ### is there a rewards thing here No answer yet ## What AI gets wrong about TAO We ask ChatGPT about TAO. These are the answers that disagree with the record. ChatGPT, read by Local AI Registry on Aug 31, 2026. No capture has disagreed with the record yet. ## The AI Score: 26 of 100 The AI Score measures how likely AI engines are to recommend a business, and how accurately. Los Angeles asian restaurants run 25 to 34. Fair starts at 45, good at 65. TAO scores 26, below the Los Angeles average of 31. The same method scores every business on the registry. | Signal | Weight | Score | What it measures | TAO | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Retrieval grounding | 26 | 0 | Whether you appear in the ranked results AI retrieves and cites: AI-Overview citations, organic top-10 for your money queries, and the Bing index ChatGPT leans on. | Poor | | Off-property attestation | 20 | 39 | Volume and consistency of what others say about you: YouTube mentions, branded web mentions, third-party “best-of” lists. The cause of retrievability. | Poor | | AI visibility | 14 | 0 | Whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and AI Overviews name you, and whether they name you for the right service. | Nobody at all was recommended in the 1 answer we hold, so there is nothing to score. | | Reviews & response | 12 | 93 | The star average is only one input. We also read volume, velocity, the specificity of review language, and response cadence. Specific reviews are what AI quotes verbatim. | Good | | Backlink & citation authority | 8 | 70 | Domain authority and editorial quality of the sources that attest to you. | Good | | Google Business Profile | 8 | 90 | Required and recommended fields; update cadence. The listing AI pulls from first. | Good | | Speed & mobile | 7 | 21 | Core Web Vitals at the 75th percentile, on a real phone. | Poor | | Content freshness & schema | 5 | 79 | Crawl recency, intent alignment, valid JSON-LD, canonicals. | Good | Full method: https://localairegistry.com/methodology ## How AI decides what to tell you about an asian restaurant When you ask ChatGPT, Gemini or Google about a local business, the AI doesn't visit it. It reads what's already written about it: the business's website, its Google Business Profile, review sites, news stories and directories like this one. Then it repeats what those sources agree on. That's why AI gets small facts wrong. If Yelp says a place is open Mondays and the website says it isn't, the AI has to pick one. The table above shows the answers that disagree with the record today. The more sources agree, and the more specific they are, the more confidently AI recommends a business. A review that names who helped and what they did tells an AI far more than one that says "great place." ## How to choose an asian restaurant in California, with or without AI A few checks take ten minutes and tell you more than any rating. - Check that the hours and phone number match on Google, Yelp and the business's own website. Mismatches are how people end up at a locked door. - Read reviews that name a person and what they did. Vague praise is easy to fake. - Look for recent reviews and recent posts. A page nobody has touched in a year may not match the business today. - Ask for the price before you go, and ask what it includes. - Where the work needs a license, ask whose license it is and look it up with California. ## How to read the marks on this page - Confirmed (solid circle): from a known source. The business website, its Google Business Profile, review sites like Yelp, Healthgrades and RealSelf, a licensing board, or measured by Local AI Registry. - Visitor submitted (hollow circle): added or corrected by a person, with the date and how they know, like a phone call or a visit. - AI guess (hollow triangle): what AI engines are saying right now. Nobody has confirmed it. ## About the author Steve Lee is the founder and CEO of Local AI Registry and sets its editorial standards. He is a former Google executive in Search and a former Microsoft executive, with more than 20 years in digital: search, local discovery, and how people find businesses online. He is based in Irvine. - Expertise: search at Google and Microsoft, AI search, answer engine optimization, generative engine optimization, local SEO, structured data and entity mapping. - Industry: medical aesthetics, injectables, med spa operations and marketing. - Disclosure: Local AI Registry sells services to business owners, including TAO if it claims this page. That does not change what this page says. Every fact carries its source. ## Entity map Every person, place, organization and treatment named on this page, with a stable ID and a public reference. The JSON-LD below connects them to each other. | Entity | Type | ID on this page | Same as | Relationship to TAO | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | TAO | LocalBusiness | #business | http://taolosangeles.com/ | Subject of this page | | Los Angeles, California | City | #city | Nothing found | City TAO is in | | Local AI Registry | Organization | #publisher | https://localairegistry.com | Publisher of this page | | Steve Lee | Person | #author | https://localairegistry.com/team | Author of this page | ## Topical map Where this page sits in the registry. It's one profile among the asian restaurants in Los Angeles, linked to the lists and towns around it. ### Lists - Best asian restaurants in Los Angeles: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/los-angeles/asian-restaurant - Best businesses in Los Angeles: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/los-angeles ### Nearby - /san-francisco: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-francisco - /san-jose: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-jose - /san-diego: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-diego - /irvine: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/irvine - /fresno: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/fresno - /palo-alto: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/palo-alto ### Every list - Every leaderboard in California: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca ## Frequently asked questions ### What is AI search optimization for local business? Getting a business named when a neighbor asks ChatGPT, Gemini, or Perplexity for a recommendation. Some call it AI SEO, some call it generative engine optimization. Traditional SEO fights for ten blue links; this fights for the one answer an assistant says out loud. The AI Score on this page measures the eight signals that drive it. ### What is Local AI Registry? The public record of how AI sees local business. We score every business we list by one published method, we keep the questions people ask about it in one place, and we never sell rank. Looking up any business here is free. ### How does this page help a business get recommended by AI? Assistants read public pages before they answer. This one states what the business does, what people ask about it, and what the Record answers, in one place a machine can read. Correcting what is wrong here changes what an assistant repeats next. ### Who writes the answers here? Registry AI writes the first answer under every question, from the Record and the public sources named beneath it. Neighbors write the rest under pseudonyms. A registered owner can reply as the business, and their reply says so. ### I own TAO. How do I fix something or rank higher? Register the page. It is free, it takes about five minutes, and it lets you correct the Record and reply as the business. Nothing on this page is for sale, so the only thing that moves the score is the work. ## References ### Sources cited - [1] Google Business Profile, https://www.google.com/maps/place/?q=place_id:ChIJ5ZNDtTu_woARN_oM_I9pUpo (accessed Aug 31, 2026) - [2] taogroup.com, https://taogroup.com/2022-veterans-day-weekend-offer/ (accessed Sep 19, 2026) - [3] taogroup.com, https://taogroup.com/2023-holiday-giving/ (accessed Sep 19, 2026) - [4] taogroup.com, https://taogroup.com/2023-sleepout/ (accessed Sep 19, 2026) - [5] taogroup.com, https://taogroup.com/autism-awareness-month/ (accessed Sep 19, 2026) - [6] taogroup.com, https://taogroup.com/black-history-month-awareness/ (accessed Sep 19, 2026) - [7] taogroup.com, https://taogroup.com/college-intern-program/ (accessed Sep 19, 2026) - [8] taogroup.com, https://taogroup.com/perfect-patisserie/ (accessed Sep 19, 2026) - [9] taogroup.com, https://taogroup.com/stanton-social-prime/ (accessed Sep 19, 2026) - [10] taogroup.com, https://taogroup.com/womens-empowerment-month/ (accessed Sep 19, 2026) - [11] taogroup.com, https://taogroup.com/dim-sum-memories/ (accessed Sep 19, 2026) - [12] taogroup.com, https://taogroup.com/fold-steam-eat-repeat/ (accessed Sep 19, 2026) - [13] taogroup.com, https://taogroup.com/lavo-exactly-like-nothing-else/ (accessed Sep 19, 2026) - [14] taogroup.com, https://taogroup.com/mid-autumn-festival/ (accessed Sep 19, 2026) - [15] AI engine output: ChatGPT, read by Local AI Registry on Aug 31, 2026, https://localairegistry.com/methodology (accessed Sep 19, 2026)