Come experience California cuisine on Santa Monica's famous boutique street, Montana Avenue. Featuring a wide variety of seafood, pasta, grilled meats, salads, and appetizers that are infused with the influences of the California region. You'll discover enjoyable dining that will become a "must" on your favorite list of Santa Monica restaurants.

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More is More: Cafe Montana's Most Wanted Dessert Has A Trio of Chocolate

Getting into the popular Cafe Montana in Santa Monica is hard. Getting past the dessert display is even harder. The bistro, frequented by Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, Helen Hunt, Kim Basinger, Sally Field and a roster of other celebs, is known for its array of beguiling desserts - and the stars can't seem to get enough of them.

Steven Spielberg and his wife, Kate Capshaw, stock up on the caramel apple pecan pie for their holiday parties. Maria Shriver pulls up at the curb in the morning and a waitress rushes out with warm-from-the-oven scones. Shriver's husband, Arnold Schwarzenegger, comes inside to collect a generous portion of the mixed berry crumble. Owner Eddie Silkaitis remembers the day Schwarzenegger told him, "You can just put it in my hand!"

Pastry chef Vladas Ceika's most imaginative and popular holiday dessert is the chocolate raspberry mousse terrine, which arrives amid a cloud of whipped cream and raspberry puree. The main event is a chocoholic's slice of heaven, boasting three kinds of chocolate: a bittersweet shell, a dark chocolate cake and inside, a rich mousse studded with nuggets of New Zealand raspberries. Impressed yet? It all comes speckled with gleaming bits of genuine - and genuinely edible - gold leaf. Can you think of a better way to get your minerals this winter?

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