Santa Monica Restaurants
101 Santa Monica Blvd., Santa Monica, CA, 90401
The third in recent chain of exceedingly clean, modern and elegantly furnished restaurants, Boa serves the spoils of surf and turf at prices guaranteed to keep the hoi...
100 W. Channel Rd., Santa Monica, CA, 90402
3221 Donald Douglas Loop S., Santa Monica, Ca, 90405
Japanese restaurants are few and far between in the small Midwestern town where my friend Alan lives, so whenever he comes to Los Angeles, the first thing he wants to do is...
1535 Ocean Ave., Santa Monica, CA, 90401
A breezy, resort-style restaurant draped with bougainvillea and overflowing with Old World colonial charm, Ivy at the Shore is known as the shorefront spot where Hollywood...
620 Santa Monica Blvd., Santa Monica, CA, 90401
Nobody slips into La Botte unnoticed or unannounced. As you skip down the three or four steps to the entrance, Stefano de Lorenzo, one of the owners, will be spreading the...
1602 Ocean Ave., Santa Monica, CA, 90401
A modern architectural feat suspended precariously above Moomat Ahiko Way for a splendid view of the Santa Monica Pier and Bay, the Lobster is a sunny, well-appointed...
1104 Wilshire Blvd., Santa Monica, CA, 90401
It's a thrill walking into such a grown-up restaurant, where waiters are dressed in suits and ties and the room is full of large, festive groups. Several of the best dishes,...
2700 Wilshire Blvd., Santa Monica, CA, 90403
Like the better-known MacArthur Park/Westlake outpost, this Pacific Dining Car specializes in juicy slabs of beef. Order a prime corn-fed U.S.D.A. steak grilled to order over...
3115 Pico Blvd., Santa Monica, CA, 90405
Wine Spectator once declared Valentino’s 2,500-labels-long wine list “the greatest wine cellar of them all.” If that seems daunting, never fear. This...
1323 Montana Ave., Santa Monica, CA, 90403
Montana Avenue was mostly closed up tight as a clam on a recent weekday night, but the action in front of Yu, the new pan-Asian restaurant that moved into the old Wolfgang...