"The crowd at Cassia is lively and hip—there's a palpable excitement in the room that Santa Monica is back on the L.A. culinary map. Come for vibrant Vietnamese fare with cocktails to match at the closest thing in L.A. to New York's Indochine, and order the kaya toast (like Singaporean french toast) or the laksa noodle curry. If you're looking for an L.A. restaurant to write home about, you've found it." - Hugh Garvey, Celeste Moure, Krista Simmons
Photo by Rick Poon