Beethoven Market

A Westside Cal-Italian spot with tuna carpaccio, cacio e pepe, and product managers drinking orange wine on a patio. Stop us if you’ve heard this one before. This Mar Vista restaurant follows a familiar formula, but it also makes a damn good case for it. Nothing on the menu is over $30 (not a typo), and every dish is simple and well-done. Green bean and celery salad springs to life with lemony vinaigrette, and the charred pork collar tastes like it was lip-locked with the grill seconds prior. The buzzy candlelit space—a converted corner market flanked by citrus trees—feels lived-in, and that’s because it is. Half of the neighborhood has moved in already, and we can't imagine them leaving anytime soon.