Abode
photo: Alen Lin
1541 Ocean Ave.
(Colorado Ave.)
Santa Monica, CA 90401
310-394-3463
| Food |
Decor |
Service |
Cost |
| 23 |
26 |
20 |
$93 |
“Gorgeous” “modern-retro” furnishings with “beautiful banquettes” set a “promising” tone for this sustainability-touting Santa Monica newcomer, which rewards early samplers with New American fare they deem “avant-garde”, “pleasurable” and even “gastrodynamic”; the coinage puts off others, however, who find it too “pretentious” and “overpriced for the food quality and portions”, given tasting menus ranging from $85 to $145.
Based on the reviews of initial visitors