"This charming little French restaurant melds classic bistro dishes with a California sensibility. Its attractive main dining room leads to one of the city’s most romantic brick-lined patios, giving the place the feeling of a secret find. Try the vegetarian French onion soup (its broth deepened by mushrooms, not beef) and then share some steak au poivre — because balance — before figuring out which of the two of you will get the third chocolate-covered profiterole." - Rebecca Roland