Casual Santa Monica modern Mexican restaurant Tallula’s has a $35 prix fixe with snacks, ceviche or salad appetizer, a choice of two tacos like chicken or carne asada, and a dessert like orange olive oil cake or flan.

Beach-adjacent seafood spot Anchor has a $55 per person dineLA prix fixe with shrimp ceviche, lobster roll sliders, grilled Spanish octopus, and ribeye steak with veggies. Key lime pie is the sole dessert, but it’s definitely no slouch.

Beloved Sherman Oaks Mexican restaurant has reopened its dining room with classic dishes like albondigas and a house combo plate of beef, chicken, or cheese enchiladas with tacos. Flan or churros are the proper desserts. The whole dineLA prix fixe is just $35 per person, but doesn’t include margaritas.

Neighborhood Italian favorite Jame Enoteca has a night dinner deal for dineLA with kale salad, crispy brussels sprouts or meatballs to start, followed by a choice of housemade pasta or chicken parm for an entree. Dessert is a meyer lemon pie or nutella cake, dine-in only.

Classy Culver City haunt Dear John’s has extended its lease and plans to serve even more midcentury favorites like shrimp cocktail or Caesar salad. Steak diane, chicken parm, or sand dabs follow those up with a mascarpone cheesecake or chocolate crunch cake for dessert. Wear your best Mad Men attire for the full effect.

Classy Culver City French bistro Simonette has a $45 dinner with a choice of chicken chasseur with tomato veloute or a house burger with fried egg. Dessert ends with a profiterole with vanilla ice cream and chocolate ganache.

Southern restaurant Yardbird has reopened at the Beverly Center with choices like fried green tomato BLT, truffle agnolotti, or grilled artichoke salad to start. Lemon basil pasta, shrimp and grits, or roasted chicken are entree options (though you’d be remiss not to try the fried chicken and waffles). Key lime pie is the appropriate dessert.

West Hollywood’s see-and-be-seen restaurant E.P. has a fun $55 prix fixe with fresh oysters or roasted beet salad followed by dry-aged steak frites or rigatoni alla vodka. Desserts alone are reason to come, such as the coconut and feijoa pavlova.

Combining elements of a classic Greek seafood spot and an LA party scene, Theia has a three course feast with chicken skewers, mezze, and truffle potato croquettes followed by eggplant caponata, scallops, or braised lamb shank, with a choice of chocolate cake, pistachio baklava, or lavender panna cotta for dessert. Cost is $55 per person.

With the kind of decor that looks like a date night destination, Beauty and Essex has a modern American prix fixe with tuna poke wonton tacos, roasted chicken or Thai barbecue mushroom, or seared scallop. These are all dishes that would impress on a special occasion, and the stunning ambience is just icing on the cake.

Classic New Orleans restaurant Harold and Belle’s has an easy-going $35 dinner menu filé or vegetarian gumbo followed by a choice of catfish, fried chicken, or hot links, and a margarita aor hurricane to wash it down. Available for takeout as well.

Silver Lake’s popular all-day restaurant has a $55 dinner featuring seven courses, which kicks off with starters like chicory salad with smoked pecans and cured albacore with green tomato and sumac. It progresses to smoked beef sirloin, littleneck clams, and pee wee potatoes with cheddar sour cream gravy. Pineapple sorbet provides the sweet finish.

Steve and Dine Samson’s Fashion District restaurant has a well-optioned $55 prix fixe with swordfish spiedini or beef carpaccio to start. Egg-battered flounder, dry-aged duck breast, and kabocha squash crespelle are options for the second course, and it’s certainly nice to see a departure from predictable entrees here. Dessert is an apple brown butter crostata.

Chef Kuniko Yagi’s enduring Downtown LA fried chicken spot has a family basket of fried chicken that will feed two adults with one pound of tenders, cole slaw, two onigiri, fingerling fries, pickles, and three dipper sauces, plus dark chocolate chip cookies. It’s hard to think of a better chicken dinner in LA.

Long Beach Italian restaurant Michael’s on Naples is consistently one of the best places in Long Beach, offering mozzarella, tortellini, milk-braised pork shoulder, and chestnut fritters as lengthy options for the $65 per person dineLA dinners.