Restaurant: Bar Monette
Location: 109 Santa Monica Blvd, Santa Monica, CA 90401. (310) 310-8575
Date: April 27, 2023
Cuisine: Pizza
Rating: Great pizza
New “tapas” (not really) Pizza Bar in Downtown Santa Monica.
Now that I’m working here, too bad they aren’t open for lunch.
Cute and crowded inside.
The short menu.
Aunty Wendy’s Trevis. Passion fruit, basil. Basically a passionfruit pesto, this dressing was a surprising and wonderful counterpoint to the bitter raddiccio. Nice little (and it was little) saiad.
Poached Prawns. Saffron Bisque. The saffron was subtle, but the sauce was every bit one of those shellfish shell bisques. So yummy. Great little dish.
Sugo Puttanesca. Not as pungent as I might have liked, but certainly delicious with that umami quality.
Burnt Romesco. Awesome smoked romesco flavor. really tasty.
Scissors to cut the pizza!?!
Margherita. Basil, Stracciatella. The dough on these pizzas is so soft, chewy, and perfect. Maybe the best pizza dough I’ve had.
Zucchini Blossom Pizza. Piquillo Pepper, buffalo mozzarella, garlic. Lovely.
Pesto & Dungeness Crab Pizza. Pine Nut, basil, aged cheese. Very interesting pizza. Great.
Spicy Calabrese & Honey. Oregano, Sun-dried Tomato. My favorite pizza of the night. It was so salty/savory good. Yum!
Overall, a narrowly focused but really brilliant little pizza bar. A touch loud, but the service was great and the food to-die-for.