Restaurants, hotels, bars and wineries in Manhattan Beach from the En Primeur Club guide.
Accolades in Manhattan Beach
These rooms pair wine lists with extensive wine lists and focused dining formats.
Love & Salt is an Italian restaurant in Manhattan Beach with Southern California influences, house-made pastas, wood-fired pizzas and a wine list. It has back-to-back Opinionated About Dining rankings in 2024 and 2025, and the room balances a la carte service with small plates.
SLAY Steak + Fish House on Manhattan Avenue is a classic American steakhouse with seafood, cast-iron cooked grass-fed beef and sustainable seafood sourced from the owner’s SLAY Estate & Vineyard. The room pairs that surf-and-turf focus with an extensive wine list.
Petros in downtown Manhattan Beach serves coastal Greek cuisine with California ingredients, ocean views, an extensive wine list. The room works with an a la carte format.
These picks show how Manhattan Beach dining works across its main neighbourhoods, from casual local rooms to polished coastal dining.
Esperanza serves modern Sonoran Mexican cocina de la playa in Manhattan Beach with a wine list and craft cocktails. Its place on Manhattan Beach Boulevard puts it in the South Bay’s most walkable dining strip, where a neighbourhood crowd comes for both casual post-beach lunches and deliberate dinners.
Nick's Manhattan Beach is a Manhattan Beach room built around American comfort food, with buttermilk fried chicken, San Francisco cioppino, an extensive wine list. The patio and the menu make it a steady local reference point on Manhattan Beach Blvd.
Saint & Second in Manhattan Village offers modern American fusion with Asian, Mediterranean and steakhouse influences, plus a wine list and craft cocktails. The room uses a come-as-you-are format and locally sourced seasonal dishes.
Manhattan Beach and Downtown Manhattan Beach hold most of the wine-led dining in our guide. Love & Salt and SLAY Steak + Fish House sit in Manhattan Beach, while Petros gives downtown Manhattan Beach an extensive wine list, and Manhattan Village adds Saint & Second with a wine program.
Manhattan Beach has no Michelin-starred restaurants in our guide. Love & Salt and SLAY Steak + Fish House have wine lists and extensive wine lists. Love & Salt serves house-made pastas and wood-fired pizzas; SLAY Steak + Fish House serves cast-iron cooked grass-fed beef.
Love & Salt, SLAY Steak + Fish House, Petros, Nick's Manhattan Beach and SLAY Italian Kitchen each have an extensive wine list in our guide. Love & Salt, SLAY Steak + Fish House, Petros, Nick's Manhattan Beach and SLAY Italian Kitchen also have a wine list.
Love & Salt, SLAY Steak + Fish House, Petros and Nick's Manhattan Beach are the main a la carte restaurants in our guide with a wine list or an extensive wine list. They sit in Manhattan Beach and downtown Manhattan Beach.
By Emmett Haley · Updated October 8, 2026 · Editorial standards
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Selected entries from the current guide for Manhattan Beach.
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A consistently recognised Italian restaurant on Manhattan Beach Boulevard, Love & Salt has earned back-to-back Opinionated About Dining rankings in 2024 and 2025, placing it firmly in the upper tier of casual Italian dining on the Los Angeles coast. Chef Rebecca Merhej leads the kitchen with a focus on Italian fundamentals in a setting that rewards unhurried meals. A reliable choice for the South Bay's most serious Italian table.
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North End Caffe: American Comfort Cafe at 3421 Highland Ave runs casual service with conversational noise and street scene views, and it was featured on Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives in 2026.
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A Manhattan Beach neighborhood pizza spot at 3301 Highland Ave, Beach Pizza sits within a South Bay dining scene that ranges from casual counters to polished coastal dining rooms. The address places it in walking distance of the strand's residential grid, where the local appetite for casual, shareable food runs deep. For visitors mapping a day in the area, it fits the informal end of the Manhattan Beach dining spectrum.
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Bread Head Manhattan Beach fits the South Bay’s casual eating rhythm: quick, ingredient-led, and built around sandwiches rather than ceremony. Read it as part of a wider Manhattan Beach pattern, where beach-town convenience increasingly overlaps with sharper sourcing expectations and tighter specialty formats.
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El Sombrero serves Classic Mexican Taqueria fare in Manhattan Beach, with shrimp and steak fajitas, wet beef burrito, fish tacos, terrace seating, and a beer program.
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Esperanza sits on Manhattan Beach Boulevard in the South Bay's most walkable dining strip, drawing a neighbourhood crowd that spans casual post-beach lunches and deliberate dinner outings. The address places it squarely in a block where local staples and newer concepts compete for the same loyal clientele, making it a reliable reference point for understanding how Manhattan Beach eats on an ordinary Tuesday as much as a Saturday night.
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JOEY Manhattan Beach operates in the polished-casual mid-market tier that defines South Bay suburban dining, with a globally inflected menu designed to absorb a wide range of occasions. Situated on N Sepulveda Blvd, it draws from across the Manhattan Beach, Hermosa Beach, and El Segundo catchment area. Weekend reservations are advisable for the Friday and Saturday peak.
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Manhattan Pizzeria is the easy, casual pick in Manhattan Beach when the group wants New York–style pizza, garlic knots, wings, subs, pasta, and quick counter-service convenience. It is better for pickup, delivery, family meals, and late-night food than for a special-occasion dinner or wine-led night out.
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Nick's Manhattan Beach occupies a stretch of Manhattan Beach Blvd that draws a consistent local crowd for its approachable California menu. The room reads as a neighbourhood anchor rather than a destination import, pitched at the kind of relaxed but considered dining that defines the South Bay's better casual-upscale tier. It sits comfortably alongside spots like M.B. Post and JOEY Manhattan Beach in a corridor where locals eat regularly rather than occasionally.
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On a quiet residential block one street back from the Manhattan Beach strand, Ocean View Cafe occupies a corner of the South Bay that rewards those who pay attention to their surroundings. The cafe format fits the neighbourhood's rhythm: unhurried mornings, salt air drifting in from the Pacific, and a dining scene that values ease over ceremony. It sits within a compact local circuit that includes M.B. Post and Esperanza.
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Petros occupies a corner of Manhattan Beach Boulevard where the South Bay's Greek-leaning dining tradition meets a California coastal register. The room draws a loyal local crowd, and the address at 451 Manhattan Beach Blvd places it within walking distance of the strand. Plan ahead: tables here fill on a neighborhood schedule, not a tourist one.
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Saint & Second occupies a suite address on North Sepulveda Boulevard in Manhattan Beach, positioning itself within the South Bay's evolving dining corridor rather than the pier-adjacent strip.
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Second Story sits above North Sepulveda Boulevard in Manhattan Beach, drawing a crowd of regulars who return less for novelty than for consistency. The address puts it at a remove from the pier-side bustle, which suits the clientele it attracts. For those familiar with the South Bay dining scene, it occupies a steady, dependable position in a neighbourhood that cycles through trends faster than most.
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SLAY Italian Kitchen occupies a Manhattan Beach address that places it squarely in the South Bay's casual-upscale dining tier, where Italian-American formats compete alongside a range of neighborhood standbys. Situated at 1001 Manhattan Ave, the restaurant draws a local crowd looking for Italian classics within walking distance of the beach. For broader context on the area's dining options, see our full Manhattan Beach restaurants guide.
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SLAY Steak + Fish House on Manhattan Avenue brings a focused surf-and-turf format to Manhattan Beach's dining scene, pairing premium cuts with serious seafood in a coastal California setting. The name signals intent: this is a room organized around the theatre of the grill and the cold side of the menu in equal measure. It sits in the mid-to-upper tier of the South Bay's independent restaurant market.
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A Manhattan Beach address on Manhattan Avenue that anchors itself in the South Bay's surf-to-table tradition, The Hook & Plow works the intersection of coastal California produce and technique-forward cooking. The result is a neighborhood restaurant that reads more seriously than its beachside zip code might suggest, drawing both locals and visitors who want something beyond the strand's casual defaults.
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Persian grilling in Manhattan Beach, Toranj brings the charcoal-driven kebab tradition of Iran to the South Bay, where fire-cooked skewers and aromatic marinades occupy a niche that few coastal California restaurants address directly. For a city better known for casual surf culture than Persian kitchen craft, it represents a genuine shift in the local dining conversation. Check our full Manhattan Beach restaurants guide for context on where it sits among peers.
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A Manhattan Beach institution that has anchored the Highland Avenue breakfast strip for decades, Uncle Bill's Pancake House draws locals and visitors alike with direct morning cooking in a casual, unpretentious setting. In a beach city where brunch has increasingly drifted toward elaborate presentations and premium price points, this is the counter-argument: direct, familiar, and reliably occupied on weekend mornings.
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Shade Hotel in Manhattan Beach holds a MICHELIN Selected distinction for 2025, placing it among a small tier of Los Angeles Area hotels recognised for consistent quality. The property sits steps from the Pacific in one of the South Bay's most walkable beach towns, offering a quieter counterpoint to the hotel density of Santa Monica and Venice. Advance booking is recommended, particularly for summer weekends.
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