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La Botte Ristorante

620 Santa Monica Blvd. (Seventh St.) Send to Phone
Santa MonicaCA 90401
310-576-3072 | Make Restaurant Reservations
This cozy but high-priced neighborhood restaurant offers a taste of Northern Italy within walking distance of one of California’s best-loved beaches.

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Lunch Mon.-Fri., Dinner nightly

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Dining room at La Botte Ristorante, Santa Monica, CAWhile it may take a few tries to coax the name---“la BOH-tay,” Italian for “the wine barrel”---to roll off your tongue with a suave lilt, you’ll easily appreciate the kitchen’s refined touch. La Botte specializes in the intriguing cuisine from the far northern reaches of Italy, near the Austrian border. Prices may seem high for a cozy neighborhood restaurant, but one taste and you’ll find those dollar signs reflected in the intensity of flavor yielded by fine ingredients. To start, traditional items like prosciutto with burrata cheese and a drizzle of olive oil are joined by less familiar creations, like a carpaccio of sea bass wrapped around sea urchin, sliced paper thin and served with lemon, olive oil and cracked pepper. Pastas include a homemade beet variety with quail over a Parmesan fondue, filet mignon ravioli in butter-sage sauce and the traditional regional dish of cassunziei: beet-stuffed pasta with brown butter, Parmesan and poppy seeds. Watch for unusual risottos, like porcini mushrooms and fresh blueberries or figs. Among the entrées, we like such robust choices as the house-made wild boar sausage, delicate branzino, filet mignon, and the Colorado loin of lamb. For dessert, go for such favorites as tiramisu or a light-as-air chocolate-hazelnut mousse. What the predominantly Italian wine list lacks in creativity, it makes up for in volume, with page after page of top labels. Our only reservation is our experience with slightly surly service.

User Ratings & Reviews for La Botte Ristorante
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best contemporary italian food in LA
by Libel on 04/07/2009
 
The food at La Botte is the best food I have eaten anywhere in the world. I have never had one mouthful of food here that wasn't absolutely, perfectly delicious. This is by far the best contemporary Italian food in America. It isn't cheap but it is amazing. Eating in La Botte is a special occasion.

Outstanding cuisine, imported italian waiters, wonderful selection of wines, seductive atmosphere - it doesn't get any better than this
 
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