Dinner Recommendations between Santa Monica-Beverly Hills

[gourmetgal1]

Hi-have dinner plans with a friend on Thursday and am trying to figure out a good restaurant between Santa Monica and Beverly Hills. Any fun, new restaurants to try? Any favorite standbys where you can catch up with a friend and have a great meal? Open to any type of food, price not an issue but not looking for anything too dressy. Have liked Tavern, Fig, Osteria Latini, Farmshop to give you an idea. Would really appreciate any feedback, thanks!

[maudies5]

Doma is a great new restaurant in BH.
www.domabh.com

[jgilbert]

How about Crustacean in Beverly Hills? Its not new but you will have a nice meal and you can can talk -- unlike some restaurants which are too loud and/or the staff pushes you to surrender your table quickly.

[Thor123]

Having recently hosted a group at Crustacean, I can tell you it has really declined over the years and is very expensive. Not nearly as good a Chinois.

[Ciao Bob]

Crustacean has declined? I would have thought that impossible - there was no place lower to go.

[Thor123]

Sort of the Villa Blanca of Vitnamese fusion if ya know what I mean.

[ipsedixit]

How in the world did you take the words out of my mouth so quickly?

[Thor123]

Actually, it took 10 hours.

[wienermobile]

Fundmental LA
http://www.fundamental-la.com

Craft if you have an expense account (or only $45 for great 3 course dinner if you are here during DineLA Week January 21st-Feb 1st 2013).
http://www.craftrestaurantsinc.com/cr...

[Dirtywextraolives]

Is Westwood considered in between SaMo & BH?

[Servorg]

It's directly in between

[Dirtywextraolives]

Seems a little north to me, but I'm not staring at a map at the moment. For instance, my husband works in Century City, off of SaMo Blvd. Right next door is BH, but one has to go further north to hit Wilshire to go through Westwood.... Aahhh, it's all good, either way!

[Servorg]

Wilshire runs from Palisades Park in Santa Monica overlooking the Pacific Ocean right through the heart of Beverly Hills on into downtown LA.

[Thor123]

Sotto would be a good call.

[Servorg]

There have been some good reports on the LA board for the new Doma. We haven't been. http://www.domabh.com/

[westsidegal]

in santa monica, rather than "between" sm and bh, Wilshire.

[Dirtywextraolives]

Tar & Roses
Hostario del Piccolo
Freddy Smalls
Plan Check
Westside Tavern
Bouchon