"Fromin’s in Santa Monica makes the cut for offering one of the city’s most unimpeachable bowls of matzo ball soup, especially potent when one feels under the weather. The broth is liquid gold, the single matzo ball is gigantic, and it comes with a gilded coronet of egg noodles and carrots. The restaurant’s soups usually come with crackers, but for a few cents more you can kick it up to crispy bagel chips or caraway seed–flecked rye bread." - Rebecca Roland