MICHAEL'S Restaurant Santa Monica featured in 'los angeles' magazine in their July 2006 issue "The Best of LA" for 'Romantic Restaurant".

"Romance may be ineffable, but when it comes to creating an atmosphere that inspires it, there are tangible, nonnegotiable requirements. MICHAEL'S restaurant has them all: discreet lighting, unobtrusive service, enough real estate between tables to allow for unabashed exchanges of sweet nothings, and food that sets the senses smoldering. The garden, a cocoon of tropical foliage dotted with fairy lights, is a gracious tableau of California living that forbids contemplation of mundane reality. When an appetizer of spot prawn capraccio arrives, its musky sweetness, charged with the citrus spark of a yuzu gelee, signals that the night may be young but the fireworks are under way."