Tried Milo & Olive yet? There are some heavy-hitters in the top 10 restaurants list from our 2013 Survey, but so many newcomers that have opened in the last year deserve our attention. Here are the top five as ranked in the newly released guide, including one from a Top Chef, a few new favorite pizza ovens and a…
It’s some feat for a pastry chef to actually out-bake herself, as Zoe Nathan has possibly done at Milo & Olive. More so as she did it not by upping the chocolate ganache ante — as one might expect from the seasoned pastry chef — but by fully embracing the bread baker’s domain. Sure, Nathan…
Bite into a pizza, any pizza, at Milo & Olive, and listen. This is the only pizza in Los Angeles that responds with a loud crunch. Shards of olive-oily crust flake off in the midst of mastication. Immediately afterward, notice the extremely pungent sauce and then, the tender cheese.
The food is homey and the crowds are heavy at Santa Monica’s Milo and Olive In the morning, Milo and Olive is still calm. You can sit at one of the eight counter seats eating a bowl of stone-ground grits with sautéed chanterelles and an egg, sunny side up, feeling as if you’re part of…
Fresh ideas for lunch include Café Livre, Cooks County, Milo & Olive, the Playground and Maison Giraud. Traffic being the way it is, getting to lunch, having lunch and getting back to where you started can shave hours off the day. In an increasingly harried world, having lunch out (instead of at your desk or…
Those Rustic Canyon guys? It’s an empire they’re building in Santa Monica, from ice cream, to wine, to breakfast — and now pizza, at this new, perpetually crowded small-plates restaurant whose dining room probably is smaller than some of its customers’ breakfast nooks. Really, once you’ve resigned yourself
