New Year's Eve dining guide
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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 three-decades-plus gourmet Italian restaurant is all about walking you through it. Same deal when it comes to the food, where they offer two-course “classic” menus and four-course tasting menus filled with homemade pasta, chewy risotto, veal tenderloin with black truffles, and Santa Barbara prawns. Dripping with ivy outside and bustling-yet-civilized inside, the mood is kept intimate through warm service and a cozy string of small dining rooms. Reservations, of course, are a good idea, but you might want to show up early anyway. It’s so nice to start off slow nibbling parmesan crisps and sipping Prosecco at the bar.
Picks by Jessica-Gelt
VALENTINO & WINE ‘the best I ever had’…!!! VALENTINO Santa Monica, CA ‘ the best I ever had out ‘ Tuna tartar paired with Prosecco...notes of tangerine, grapefruit, pear ...perfect… Lobster, organic tomatoes, ricotta cheese very smooth paired perfect with Venica and Venica 2006 tocai friuli 2006 14 alc 2006...
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I love this restaurant and have never had a bad meal. Never have ordered off the traditional menu and their wine list is incomparable for fine Italian wines.
my wife & i went on our 9 anniversary,even thou we were the only people there because it was early,the service was so slow or lack off,the staff were...
My friends and I came here last winter. They had a very impressive wine list which I barely looked at...was mostly distracted by my very fun company. I...
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