Santa Monica American Restaurants
1610 Montana Ave., Santa Monica, CA, 90403
A medium-sized spot with ample lighting that accents the bright pine floors, ceilings and chairs, 17th St. Café serves up mixed California and international...
1351 Third Street Promenade, Santa Monica, CA, 90401
A full-service restaurant and bar with a legendary name, this outpost of Barney’s Beanery is not graced by the lingering echoes of Jim Morrison urinating on the bar,...
1415 Montana Ave., Santa Monica, CA, 90403
Some Santa Monicans order all three squares a day from this neo-diner, located just across the street from the Aero Theater. Serving comfort food with a California...
1319 Third St. Promenade, Santa Monica, CA, 90401
The worn tile floors, mostly unadorned brick walls and well-used copper pots on display in the open-air kitchen give Bravo Cucina’s dining area a breezy,...
2400D Main St., Santa Monica, CA, 90405
1457 Third Street Promenade, Santa Monica, CA, 90401
Broadway Deli bills itself as a “farmers market restaurant,” and with a semi-autonomous wine shop, a point-and-pick deli counter, a coffee-and-juice station and...
310 Santa Monica Pier, Bldg. 9, Santa Monica, CA, 90401
1211 Montana Ave., Santa Monica, CA, 90403
Most weekends, this place is packed with a waiting list and long line snaking out into the alleyway. They come for the food—largely Greek and European cuisine (eggs...
1534 Montana Ave., Santa Monica, CA, 90403
A clean, casually elegant and exceedingly well-lit spot—with two of the four walls actually floor to ceiling windows—Café Montana serves up fine food in a...
210 Wilshire Blvd., Santa Monica, CA, 90401
500 Broadway, Santa Monica, CA, 90401
2301 Main St., Santa Monica, CA, 90405
There are many reasons to fear this raw/organic/vegan/low-glycemic café and market, but few turn out to be valid. Sure, it can be a little disconcerting at first to...
1415 Ocean Ave, Santa Monica, CA, 90401
F. Scott Fitzgerald probably wishes he hadn’t drunk himself to death so he could still be sipping mint juleps on the Georgian’s well-mannered veranda. Built in...
2460 Wilshire Blvd., Santa Monica, Ca, 90403
1447 Second St., Santa Monica, CA, 90401
Sister café to the original Jinky's in Sherman Oaks, the Valley's favorite breakfast place.

