Bell's

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"One star. This Central Coast favorite serves French cuisine inspired by the bounty of California’s produce. Bell’s serves an a la carte lunch and a $110 pre-fixe dinner." - Eater Staff

"After cutting their teeth at top NYC kitchens, Daisy and Greg Ryan settled in the Santa Ynez Valley. Their particular skill lies in blending phenomenal product (90% of products are sourced from within 20 miles), focused flavors and methods. This is cooking that tastes as good as it looks, and crowds keep coming for their unpretentious dishes. Wild snails drip with luscious garlic and parsley butter, while the Santa Barbara uni crêpe cake is layered with crème fraîche and caviar. Lamb en croûte may be next, served over Calabrian chili aïoli with asparagus. The meat is tender and the aïoli perfectly cuts through the rich, savory elements.Desserts are equally worthy—from a buttery gâteau Breton to black pepper cookies laced with dark chocolate." - Michelin Inspector

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"There are two ways to experience Bell’s in Los Alamos, the acclaimed Michelin-starred restaurant from Daisy and Greg Ryan. For those who are feeling fancy, reserve a table for dinner, where Daisy prepares a seasonally driven prix fixe menu for $110. (Reservations are released a month in advance.) For those in a more casual state of mind, the bistro-leaning lunchtime menu is solid and also available to-go — find favorites like egg salad or tuna sandwiches; moules frites or steak frites; and “chips and dip,” Regiis Ova “Hybrid” caviar served with sauce raifort and potato chips." - Nicole Adlman

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"Visitors hang by the pool until dinner at Michelin-starred Bell's from New York fine-dining vets Greg and Daisy Ryan, who turn out excellent French-inspired bistro fare in a simultaneously bustling and breezy setting."

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"People have been telling me I need to go to Los Alamos for years. I had been thinking about making the trip last weekend - and when I got a reservation off the waitlist at Bell’s, it was a done deal. During the pandemic, Bell’s switched to a five-course, $65 daily-changing set menu, and I can easily say this dinner was one of the best meals I’ve eaten in the past year. The courses included a crepe topped with Santa Barbara sea urchin, a salad of just local lettuces and shallot dressing that was dumbfoundingly good, a polenta-focused, sauce-mornay-drenched croque madam, and one of their signature dishes, steak au poivre. Between the food, the excellent wine list (featuring great finds from Santa Barbara county and far beyond), the cozy patio covered in heat lamps, and perhaps most importantly, the thoughtful staff focused on providing you with the best experience possible, this restaurant alone should make you consider a trip out to Los Alamos. I would most definitely drive the two hours from LA just for Bell’s. -Katherine Lewin, Editorial Director, Restaurants" - the infatuation los angeles crew