Etta - Culver City

I've come here on multiple occasions for happy hour, dinner catch ups, corporate team dinner, brunch with friends, and it's an amazing spot with tasty food. The service is great with friendly servers who check in periodically to make sure you're well taken care of. They offer both indoor and outdoor seating which is nice. If you're with a larger group you can order several items to share to get a taste of all their delicious offerings. They have great cocktail options which does change seasonally and if you're going in for brunch, coffee and tea options as well. Though I am a fan of majority of their food a few of my favorites would be the fire-baked focaccia, which comes out perfectly warm, the diavola pizza which is delicious if you want a little bit of spice, and you can never go wrong with the alla vodka. If you're going during peak times or with a larger party I recommend making reservations prior. Overall, trendy vibes with a modern and cozy feel. Parking: they do offer valet since it is located in a hotel. There's some street parking which is harder to find or a parking structure across the street if you don't mind a short walk! One thing to note is they don't do lunch on Mondays but other than that lunch (weekday)/brunch (weekends) from 11-2 PM.

A great find by me. My favorite thing to do on the weekends with my two besties is to find random places for us to eat at that none of us have tried together as a group or individually. This was my suggestion at the very last minute. Found via Yelp of course based on the ratings. I tried to get a resy, but none were available for Saturday the night before. Walk in was totally fine. We ate family style, per usual. What we shared:Roasted oystersCaesar saladBurrata pizzaWe all got a different cocktailThe food was amazing. I devoured those oysters. The salad was certainly unique. The pizza was everyone's favorite hands down. I really loved the crust.

Honestly pretty solid food for all of the courses i got to have at a nice private dinner! Would love to see more vegetarian options with protein tho. Pizza was fire, focaccia was insane too (didn't have much of a truffle flavor tho). And the desserts were great! Omg and the pasta was really good too.

So I have mixed feeling about Etta. Beautiful restaurant and we had an outdoor table. Our waiter was pleasant but he took half of our table order and forgot to take the other half (it was 5 of us) I didn't even realize that he took any orders until 2 of our friends food was placed in front of them! They fixed the problem when we was able to flag them down, but that was unusual! My French toast was great and it was served with warm syrup. Some of us really enjoyed our food and some wasn't that impressed. Now the Fried Chicken Picnic was interesting, we all really loved the fried chicken 10 out of 10! The cheddar jalapeño biscuits probably would have been really comforting if they were actually warm and not room temperature cool and the same thing for the waffles that comes in the picnic, but they did taste good! I would give them another try, maybe for dinner like my girlfriend said. Brunch wasn't terrible but it was just awkward to have some of my party sit there with their food in front of them, and wait for our food to beget prepared.

Had a lil brunch with one of my faves here and the patio is so cute y'all! The weather was perfect for being outside. There's a little bit of street noise that you can hear but otherwise I recommend sitting out there if you can. Our waitress was nice enough to wait the 15/20 minutes it took for my friend to get there and came by to check on me anyway in the meantime, very appreciated! Ok now the food. We ordered a few plates to split: French toast, the egg scramble, and the potatoes. The French toast was by far my favorite dish! Highly recommend!