Cuisine of Santa Monica for gourmets. Places for dinner - best restaurants

Santa Monica, a small beachfront city, offers its guests plenty of marvelous restaurants and cozy cafes which are scattered all over the city and located in every shopping center. In the heart of the menu of many ethnic restaurants tourists will find hot sandwiches and hamburgers, salads and refreshing drinks. Those tourists giving preference to other culinary trends will easily find a restaurant to rest and eat as Santa Monica counts more than 350 gastronomy establishments of various trends and classes.

The Amelia's eating house is a typical British restaurant being a perfect destination for those tourists tending to buzzing and easy atmosphere. The visitors of the eating house are offered a vast variety of first courses and vegetable salads as well as hot sandwiches being popular among local residents. It should be noted that the sandwiches served in the restaurant feature rather unique artistic trimming. The Pintxo restaurant bar is recommended for those tourists giving preference to Spanish cuisine treats.

The restaurant offers its visitors to escape from the heat of the day in a cool inner court opening a vibrant view over the seaside. Among signature dishes served in the Pintxo restaurant regular customers give preference to squids cooked following a special recipe. Another attractive eating establishment of the resort city is the Fritto Misto restaurant specializing in Italian cuisine. The restaurant will be a perfect place for a family visit. Copyright www.orangesmile.com

The bright and welcoming eating house will be of great gastronomy interest for pasta fans. The menu of the eating house serves several sorts of the dish. Appetizing pasta under mushroom sauce and traditional pasta added with tomato spiced sauce, delicate spaghetti with excellent cheese dressing and fancy shaped pasta for kids are just a few sorts of pasta available for visitors of the restaurant.

The Hillstone restaurant specializes in local cuisine dishes. It will be of great pleasure not only for hamburgers fans, but for sweets addicts as well. A signature dessert of the restaurant is considered to be ice-cream which is served under hot fruit syrups. The only drawback of the Hillstone restaurant is a small hall that is why a table for dinner is recommended to be reserved in advance. The Blue Plate Oysterette eating house is the next place to visit to go on gastronomy sightseeing of the resort city. Its main distinctive feature is a rich choice of treats made of seafood. Oysters, squids and exotic fish are bought by cooks of the restaurant every day on one of the local fish markets. The dishes made of seafood feature excellent taste and original finishing.