5 Restaurants to Try This Weekend in Los Angeles: December 5 | Eater LA

"The intrepid Thai restaurant from chef Deau Arpapornnopparat and his wife and business partner Joy Yuon has made its way to Santa Monica, where perpetual Westsiders like me can finally get our fix within a four-mile radius. The opening Winter menu reads tightly but thoughtfully with a blend of some of the team’s greatest hits (like nam tok, a deftly rendered beef tataki starter, and makrut-spiked prawn aguachile) alongside new dishes. Among the best of the bunch: a towering, tangy ginger crab whose juices beg to be sopped up with steaming jasmine rice, snacks like delicate lhon with crab meat and buttery uni, and tom yum–influenced risotto that swims under morsels of spiny lobster (the latter dish is slightly on the saline side, so balance it by ordering the sweet, but not too sweet coconut-infused panna cotta for dessert after)." - Eater Staff