The Best Beverly Hills Restaurants, According to Eater Editors | Eater LA

"New York City’s celebrated coastal Italian restaurant opened on the West Coast with a fetching dining room tucked along Beverly Hills’ tony Camden Drive, already home to Cipriani and Mr. Chow. Here, the same honey onyx bar welcomes diners, beckoning them either to the patio or the main dining room that feels like a billionaire’s yacht. Uni toast topped with a thin shaving of lardo or a parade of crudo tends to be the way most people start. Antipasti of grilled octopus with smoked potato or branzino tartare make way for the sizable homemade pasta, the menu’s real star. Plump, sweet ruby shrimp are studded into twisted gnochetti laced with rosemary oil while the red wine-braised octopus made famous in Manhattan gets woven into strands of slender fusilli. Most people order the Dover sole as their entrees, though steak and other seared fish options abound. A visit to Marea isn’t complete without dessert; the coconut-inflected meringue and house-spun ice creams are the highlights. Book a reservation through SevenRooms." - Matthew Kang