The Georgian Room
Steak house · Santa Monica
1415 Ocean Ave, Santa Monica, CA 90401, USA
Highlights
Speakeasy steakhouse with live jazz & classic cocktails
Speakeasy steakhouse with live jazz & classic cocktails
"Before you enter The Georgian Room, you’ll have to buzz a mysterious doorbell, waddle into a closet-sized waiting room, and put a privacy sticker over your phone camera. Let that be your first indication that this Italian steakhouse is only partially about the food. Mostly, you come to this revitalized Old Hollywood dining room underneath The Georgian Hotel for the experience. It’s the kind of martini-soaked nostalgia den that makes people-watching at other "speakeasies" seem like a waste of time. Start with calamari in a deep green booth, and don’t leave until you hear the jazz singer crooning slowed renditions of Brittney Spears songs next to a vintage Steinway." - nikko duren, brant cox, sylvio martins
"Although technically a restaurant, The Georgian Room doubles as a historic piano lounge. So if you’re looking for a moody place with red leather booths to celebrate something big, book a reservation. That’s the only way you’ll get into this dark basement bar, hidden just off of Santa Monica’s packed Ocean Avenue strip. It’s the kind of place where you have to buzz a mysterious doorbell and put a privacy sticker over your phone camera before you’re seated. Start with one of the house martinis, and don’t leave until you hear the jazz singer crooning renditions of Britney Spears songs next to a vintage Steinway." - brant cox, sylvio martins
"Audible oohs and ahs echo from the dining room whenever the Georgian Room’s spumoni baked Alaska arrives. Chef Thessa Diadem’s Italian American creation brings together housemade pistachio, strawberry, and chocolate ice creams over a chocolate cake base. Everything is coated in Italian meringue and toasted with a blowtorch. Order more than one dessert as the former All Day Baby pastry chef prepares some of the Southland’s best Italian desserts." - Eater Staff
"Starting in 1933, the Georgian Room served stars over decades including Judy Garland and Dick Van Dyke. Santa Monica’s Italian steakhouse reopened in mid-2023 a few months after the historic Georgian Hotel a cold bar with a daily crudo kanpachi, broiled blue prawns with Calabrian chile, pasta, and a heaping tomahawk ribeye prepared on a 1600-degree broiler topped with sea salt and olive oil. Always leave room for former All Day Baby pastry chef Thessa Diadem’s gorgeous desserts." - Matthew Kang, Mona Holmes
"This ritzy Italian steakhouse in Santa Monica, hidden in the basement of The Georgian Hotel, looks like a 1930s dinner parlor where bankers took their secret girlfriends for a rendezvous. Don’t write it off as a silly theme though, because this place has Old Hollywood cred going back nearly a century. Dinner these days involves crooners singing big band covers in the corner and beefy steaks arriving spot-on medium-rare. You’ll have to find a mysterious doorbell and place a privacy sticker over your phone camera to enter, which is a little much, but fits the vibe." - brant cox
