Love & Salt Is Still One Of The Best Italian Restaurants In The South Bay

Oct 19, 2017 748

BY: ANNIE LLOYD

Manhattan Beach is a resort town. It has impossibly soft sand, modernist beach-front properties, an iconic pancake house, and just enough sports bars to remind you that Redondo Beach is only a couple miles south. It also has impossibly good food. The tiny, blocks-long commercial stretch of Manhattan Beach Boulevard is home to M.B. Post (arguably the restaurant whose opening ushered in the new era of dining in the South Bay), Little SisterFishing with DynamiteThe Strand House, and the Arthur J only a few steps further away. At the easternmost point of the developed strip sits Love & Salt, the Italian restaurant only a couple years old. It’s easy to overlook it from the street at night, with its hidden door and painted logo in the far corner, but the door opens into a consistently-packed dining room. Missable, this place is not.

When it opened in 2015, Love & Salt was greeted with fanfare; a spot on LA Magazine’s Top 10 of 2015, a three-star review from Besha Rodell, and the coo-cooing of Manhattan Beach’s newfound culinary importance. The excitement has since tempered, and Love & Salt has settled into a role as neighborhood stalwart, which gives it room to breathe and continue churning out truly fantastic pastas, wood-fired pizzas, and possibly the best fennel salad in Los Angeles.

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SOURCE: http://laist.com

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