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Chinois on Main

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Neighborhood: Santa Monica
2706 Main St., Santa Monica, CA 90405
310-392-9025
http://www.wolfgangpuck.com/restaura...

Hours:
Open Wed.-Fri. 11:30 p.m.- 2 p.m.,
Mon.-Thurs. 6 p.m.-10 p.m.,
Fri.-Sat. 6 p.m.-10:30 p.m.,
Sun. 5:30 p.m.-10 p.m.
Price Range: $$$$$ ($30 & up)
Cuisine: French, Chinese, Californian, Noodles, Seafood
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Parking: Valet
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What makes a great restaurant? An irresistible vibe, terrific food, attentive, professional service and a sense of style. There's no shortage of Los Angeles dining rooms that fit that description. But there's a subset of great restaurants that's much smaller: places where the cooking is unmistakably of that place. Taste a dish and you know it could only have come out of the kitchen at that particular restaurant. Perhaps one of the reasons Chinois on Main, the Santa Monica restaurant Wolfgang Puck opened way back in 1983, has enjoyed such remarkable longevity is that so much of the cooking has always been unmistakably Chinois on Main.
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"Still a Main attraction"
Posted by S-Irene-Virbila on 10/22/07

Chinois on Main, after 17 years, is still one of the toughest reservations in town. In a city where 10 is doddering old age for most...

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