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Father’s Office
On Montana Avenue in Santa Monica, Father's Office has shaped how Los Angeles thinks about the gastropub format for over two decades.
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Restaurants
Selected entries from the current guide for Santa Monica.
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Chinois on Main
Chinois on Main is Wolfgang Puck’s well-known temple of East‑West cuisine, where Santa Monica chic meets cosmopolitan allure. Step into a glamorous swirl of lacquered hues, busy energy, and attentive service as the kitchen orchestrates bold, polished flavors—think whole sizzling fish perfumed with ginger and scallion, Sonoma duck lacquered to a mahogany sheen, and lobster bathed in aromatic curry. With a deep, worldly cellar and an urbane cocktail program, Chinois balances heritage and innovation, offering an effortlessly sophisticated evening that feels both timeless and thrillingly of the moment.
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FARMshop Market & Restaurant
A Santa Monica market-café that has earned consecutive Opinionated About Dining recognition since 2023, FARMshop sits at the intersection of farmers' market sourcing and counter-service ease. Daytime is its strongest register: produce-driven plates, market retail, and a pace that suits the Brentwood Country Mart crowd. Chef Jeff Cerciello's French Laundry lineage lends the kitchen a precision that most café formats never attempt.
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Fia
Fia sits on Wilshire Boulevard in Santa Monica at the point where the city's coastal informality gives way to something more considered. The kitchen operates at the intersection of California's produce calendar and technique drawn from European and broader global traditions, positioning it within a tier of West Side restaurants that treat local sourcing as a structural decision rather than a marketing note.
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FIG Restaurant
FIG Santa Monica operates from the ground floor of the Fairmont Miramar on Wilshire Boulevard, putting California farm-to-table cooking at the edge of the Pacific. Ranked on Opinionated About Dining's Casual North America list in both 2024 and 2025, it holds a 4.. Chef Damon Gordon leads a kitchen that runs from breakfast through late-night on weekends.
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Jyan Isaac Bread
Santa Monica’s daytime bakery culture rewards places that treat bread as the anchor rather than a side note. Jyan Isaac Bread fits that rhythm: an Ocean Park stop built around loaves, breakfast, lunch, and the kind of sourcing-first cooking that makes sense in a city where farmers market produce and beach-adjacent routines shape what people actually eat.
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Michael's
One of Santa Monica's most enduring dining addresses, Michael's at 1147 Third Street has anchored the city's upscale restaurant scene for decades. The room draws a loyal crowd of regulars who return not for novelty but for consistency, placing it in a tier of California dining that values craft over spectacle. It remains a reference point for the neighbourhood's evolution from beach-town casualite to serious food destination.
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Wally's Santa Monica
Wally's Santa Monica, on Wilshire Boulevard, is a wine-forward restaurant that earned White Star recognition from Star Wine List in August 2022. The space draws from the Wally's lineage of serious wine programming paired with a kitchen designed to match it, placing it within Santa Monica's more considered dining options rather than its casual beach corridor.
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1212 Santa Monica
Positioned on the 3rd Street Promenade in the heart of Santa Monica, Twelve Twelve occupies one of the Westside's most trafficked dining corridors. The menu structure and setting place it within a broader conversation about how California restaurants now balance accessibility and ambition. For visitors already planning a Promenade evening, it belongs on the shortlist alongside the area's more established options.
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800 Degrees Woodfired Kitchen
"Italian Pizza Born in L.A. When 800 Degrees Pizzeria opened in the neighborhood of Westwood, there was a line out the door for days. Since then, the build-your-own-pizza place has expanded to other L.A. locations in Santa Monica, Hollywood, Downtown, Playa Vista, and LAX, as well as further afield toLas Vegas, Japan, Dubai, and Qatar. First, request your base and watch the assembly line spin raw dough into a pizza shape and make it saucy, then add your cheese. Next, pile on the toppings, wait a few minutes for the pie to come out of the oven (which iscranked up to, you guessed it, 800 degrees), and enjoy. The Downtown and all newlocations will be known as 800 Degrees Woodfired Kitchen to reflect its rotisserie chicken, porchetta, and other new menu items. With the menu expansion came some downsizing, the original Westwood location closed in 2018 when the space's kitchen couldn't support the pizzeria's new offerings, but the close was short-lived, and the original location was back up and running again the next year."
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Amici Brentwood
On San Vicente Boulevard in the Brentwood-adjacent stretch of Santa Monica, Amici Brentwood occupies a corner of the West Side dining scene defined by neighborhood loyalty and Italian-leaning comfort. The room draws a regular crowd from the surrounding residential blocks, functioning as the kind of local anchor that newer, higher-concept openings rarely manage to replicate. Expect a relaxed cadence and a menu calibrated to the rhythms of the neighborhood rather than the demands of destination dining.
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ArcLight Cinemas Santa Monica
ArcLight Cinemas Santa Monica occupies a prime position inside Santa Monica Place, bringing the premium moviegoing format that defined the ArcLight brand to the city's busiest retail and dining corridor on the Third Street Promenade. Reserved seating, assigned ticketing, and a curated programming slate positioned the location within the upper tier of Los Angeles cinema culture before the chain's broader closure reshaped the market.
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Augie's On Main
Augie's On Main occupies a stretch of Main Street in Santa Monica that has long functioned as the neighborhood's more grounded, locally oriented dining corridor. The address places it in a walkable block between the beach commerce of Ocean Park and the denser retail of downtown Santa Monica, where the dining character runs toward regulars over tourists.
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Azure
Azure occupies a prime address on Ocean Avenue in Santa Monica, where the Pacific horizon frames one of the California coast's most photographed dining settings. Positioned within the upper tier of Santa Monica's restaurant scene, it draws comparisons to the region's more considered coastal dining rooms. Advance reservations are advisable, particularly for weekend service.
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Back on the Beach
Back on the Beach sits directly on the sand at 445 CA-1 in Santa Monica, placing it among the rare California Coast dining spots where the Pacific serves as both backdrop and ambient soundtrack. The format is casual and open-air, appealing to anyone who wants food and drink close to the water without the formality of a hotel dining room. Check EP Club's Santa Monica guide for current hours and availability.
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Bangkok West Thai
Bangkok West Thai occupies a direct address on Santa Monica Boulevard, where it competes with a growing cluster of Thai options across the Westside. Among neighborhood alternatives like Holy Basil Santa Monica and the broader casual-dining corridor running through the area, it positions itself as a reliable neighborhood presence rather than a destination-dining proposition.
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Belcampo- Santa Monica
"Anya Fernald is a bit of a badass: Not only is she a cofounder and the CEO of Belcampo Meat Co., which has quickly become the go-to purveyor of humanely raised, sustainable meats and poultry in California, but she’s also a mom, cookbook author, and a master of open-flame grilling. Go to her shops for whole-animal butchering (and the interesting, rare cuts of meat associated with it), seriously good hamburgers, and the bone broth. There are also locations in West Hollywood and Downtown."
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Big Love
On Montana Avenue, one of Santa Monica's quieter residential shopping corridors, Frozen Fruit Co occupies a spot in a neighborhood where casual, ingredient-led concepts have steadily replaced older fast-casual formats. The address places it within easy reach of the area's morning-walk and post-beach crowd, and the concept fits the California pattern of treating fruit as a serious seasonal medium rather than a garnish.
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Big Sur Grill
Big Sur Grill fits Santa Monica’s Californian dining language: produce-led cooking, coastal informality, and a preference for seasonality over ceremony. With no public award trail or chef-driven narrative to lean on, the useful read is categorical rather than biographical: this is a local Californian address in a city where farm-to-table ideas have moved from manifesto to everyday expectation.
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Blue Plate Oysterette
On Ocean Avenue, steps from the Santa Monica shore, Blue Plate Oysterette anchors the city's casual seafood scene with a menu built around oysters, chowder, and West Coast shellfish. The format is deliberately focused rather than sprawling: a tight selection that signals confidence in sourcing over breadth. For Santa Monica, it occupies a specific niche between beachside casual and serious fish cookery.
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Blue Plate Taco
On Ocean Avenue with the Pacific a block away, Blue Plate Taco occupies one of Santa Monica's more enviable street-level positions. The kitchen works in the California-Mexican register that defines the city's casual dining at its most locationally charged, where salt air and proximity to the beach set the terms of the meal as much as anything on the plate.
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Cafe Bolivar
Located on Ocean Park Boulevard in Santa Monica's quieter southern reaches, Cafe Bolivar sits away from the Third Street Promenade crowd in a part of the city that rewards those who look beyond the obvious. The address alone signals something about its positioning: this is a neighborhood place, operating at street level in a district more residential than tourist-facing, with a name that carries Latin American reference in a city where that tradition deserves more serious attention.
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Calabra
Calabra sits on the rooftop of the Proper Hotel at 700 Wilshire Blvd, positioning it among Santa Monica's most atmosphere-driven dining addresses. The setting layers Pacific coastal light against the hotel's design-forward interiors, making it a reference point for the westside's rooftop dining tier. Book ahead, especially for weekend evenings when the terrace fills quickly.
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Cassia
Cassia on 7th Street in Santa Monica brings Southeast Asian cooking into a dining room that reads more Parisian brasserie than Pacific Rim. The kitchen's sourcing discipline, drawing on California's produce depth alongside pantry traditions from Vietnam, Singapore, and beyond, positions it as one of the more intellectually coherent restaurants on the Westside. Book ahead; walk-in availability is limited.
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Hotels
Selected entries from the current guide for Santa Monica.
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Fairmont Miramar Hotel & Bungalows
Occupying five acres at the corner of Wilshire Boulevard and Ocean Avenue since 1921, the Fairmont Miramar Hotel & Bungalows carries more than a century of Santa Monica social history — from Eleanor Roosevelt to Greta Garbo — across three distinct accommodation wings and a dining programme anchored by FIG restaurant and The Bungalow bar. The Star Wine List-recognised drinks programme signals the property's continued investment in its food and beverage credentials.
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Huntley Santa Monica Beach
Positioned one block from the Pacific on Santa Monica's Second Street, the Huntley occupies a distinct tier in the city's hotel market: a 194-room property large enough to deliver full-service consistency yet independent enough in character to avoid the chain-hotel anonymity that defines much of the beachside corridor. Its rooftop position in the neighborhood gives it one of the more commanding Pacific sight lines available to a Santa Monica guest.
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Maison Twenty Seven
Maison Twenty Seven holds a MICHELIN Selected distinction in the 2025 guide, placing it among a small cohort of Los Angeles Area properties recognized for quality of stay rather than scale. Positioned on Third Street, it reads as a design-considered address in a city where boutique options increasingly compete on atmosphere and room experience over amenities count.
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The Pierside Santa Monica
Sitting steps from the Santa Monica Pier at 120 Colorado Ave, The Pierside Santa Monica earned MICHELIN Selected recognition in 2025, placing it among a curated tier of Los Angeles hotels where location does serious editorial work. The Pacific is visible before you even cross the lobby threshold, and the surrounding stretch of Colorado Avenue connects guests directly to the Westside's most walkable coastal strip.
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FOUND Santa Monica
Found Santa Monica occupies a considered position in the Santa Monica hotel scene, where design-led independent properties increasingly compete with legacy luxury brands on feel rather than scale.
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Bars
Selected entries from the current guide for Santa Monica.
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Azure
Azure occupies a prime address on Ocean Avenue in Santa Monica, where the Pacific horizon frames one of the California coast's most photographed dining settings. Positioned within the upper tier of Santa Monica's restaurant scene, it draws comparisons to the region's more considered coastal dining rooms. Advance reservations are advisable, particularly for weekend service.
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Calabra
Calabra sits on the rooftop of the Proper Hotel at 700 Wilshire Blvd, positioning it among Santa Monica's most atmosphere-driven dining addresses. The setting layers Pacific coastal light against the hotel's design-forward interiors, making it a reference point for the westside's rooftop dining tier. Book ahead, especially for weekend evenings when the terrace fills quickly.
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Esters Wine Shop & Oyster Bar
On 7th Street in Santa Monica, Esters Wine Shop and Oyster Bar sits at the intersection of two of California's most traceable sourcing traditions: small-production wine and Pacific shellfish. The format is deliberately compact, pulling wine-retail and raw-bar functions into a single room that rewards repeat visits over special-occasion pilgrimages. It belongs to a tier of neighborhood wine bars where the list does the talking.
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Offhand Wine Bar
Offhand Wine Bar is a sunlit, natural wine-focused spot in Santa Monica that effortlessly transitions from day to night. Well-suited for working over a glass of crisp wine or stopping by for rotating food pop-ups.
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Palma
Palma occupies the Proper Hotel on Wilshire Boulevard, placing it at the intersection of Santa Monica's hotel dining scene and the city's broader appetite for design-conscious spaces. The address puts guests within reach of both the beach corridor and the Wilshire commercial spine, making it a logical anchor for visitors and a deliberate choice for locals who treat hotel restaurants as legitimate dining destinations rather than fallbacks.
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The Chestnut Club
A sleek cocktail lounge offering a refined yet relaxed atmosphere. The space features leather banquettes and antique lighting, creating a cozy setting for both casual nights and special occasions.
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The Georgian Hotel
The Georgian Hotel sits on Ocean Avenue in Santa Monica, a 1933 Art Deco landmark where the Pacific horizon frames a dining and drinking scene that draws on California's coastal larder. The property occupies a distinct position on Santa Monica's hospitality corridor, where historic architecture and proximity to the water set a particular register for what happens inside.
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Thunderbird Bar
Arcades, good bites, and strong drinks that don’t try too hard.
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Ye Olde King's Head
Ye Olde King's Head on Santa Monica Boulevard is one of the California coast's most enduring British pub institutions, where cask ales, an imported-goods shop, and a decidedly un-Californian interior create a counterpoint to the beach bar scene just blocks away. For visitors seeking something closer to a London local than a Pacific Rim cocktail lounge, it occupies a category largely to itself on the Westside.
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Wineries
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