CHINOIS ON MAIN

They make it rain 10/10 dishes

Amazing dishes! Nice and competent service!

We were in town for the weekend and found this gem of a place! Being a person familiar with authentic Chinese/Asian flavors, I had my hesitations entrusting our evening with Chinois on Main because of general distrust of “Asian fusion” restaurants…. But BOY was I pleasantly SHOCKED by how great our meal was!! I also think we order well with classic flavors and a today’s special with a dish we know we’d enjoy. We loved loved loved the Chinois chicken salad (aka the OG Chinese chicken salad), the duck fried rice, and a crab cake/scallop with lobster lemongrass sauce. Everything was superb and honestly this is a place you come and enjoy their creation without any prior idea of what you’re getting. We would 100% come back here again for a meal!

We were also really happy with the service here, they’ve got the old school respect for service and even with the full house, every staff person did they job and more! Really a great experience and I feel silly having any doubt just because they have been around for while. I mean, this place is an example of a well run business with a well designed menu, and a trained staff that can have succeed for decades and maintaining their regular customers and still impressing new ones like us.

Make your reservation and come here to go home happy!

5 stars! I highly recommend!

Chinois is a neighborhood institution for those of us in the Ocean Park area of Santa Monica. The food is exquisite. I've never had anything bad. The staff is exceptional. They are the kind of people that they teach customer experience courses about. Where else are you going to go for French/Chinese fusion?