Review: Jonathan Gold finds delight in the secretive Santa Monica restaurant Dialogue

Award-winning chef Dave Beran's 18-seat, 20-course tasting-menu restaurant in Santa Monica aspires to the highest level of international cooking. For a few hundred dollars, he will take you places you have never been.
Jonathan Gold • Los Angeles Times • December 22, 2017
One of the best things I’ve ever eaten was a pressed squab that was part of the Hunt menu at Chicago’s restaurant Next, a bloody, barely roasted bird whose breasts and legs were ceremoniously carved off by a chef at a tableside cart, and its...
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