Tar and Roses
Red - Wine & Beer
Monchiero Carbone Barolo
Glass $27 Bottle $108
Nebbiolo, Barolo, Italy, 2021
Menu as captured Aug 23, 2026 · source ↗
We hold 301 venues in Los Angeles, CA and could score 189 of them. This one is not among them, so it has no position — not a low one.
There is no score breakdown to show: nothing we read about this venue earned points in any of the four categories, so a bar chart of zeroes would look like a verdict on the kitchen rather than on what it publishes. What we did read is below.
v1.7.4 0.0/100 = sourcing 0.0/50 (named-farm 0 distinct, named-region 0 distinct, attribute 0 distinct, buzzword 0 distinct; +15% corroboration lift from sourcing press) + farm partners 0.0/20 (none scored) + registry 0.0/12 (none listed) + press 0.0/18 (capped at 35% of the 0.0-point evidence base).
Buzzwords only. This venue uses sourcing language ("farm-fresh", "locally sourced") but names no farms, regions, or verifiable attributes.
See the week▾
| Sunday | Not listed |
|---|---|
| Monday | Not listed |
| Tuesday | 5:30pm – 9pm |
| Wednesday | 5:30pm – 9pm |
| Thursday | 5:30pm – 9pm |
| Friday | 5:30pm – 9:30pm |
| Saturday | 5:30pm – 9:30pm |
“Not listed” means the day was absent from the schedule we read — usually closed, but we never saw it stated, so we don’t claim it.
Hours checked Aug 24, 2026 · source ↗ · checked 41 days ago, so we're not calling it open or closed — anything over 14 days can have changed · Always worth confirming with the restaurant.
Book on OpenTable ↗link checked Aug 24, 2026
Lifestyle coverage
- Tar & Roses - Review - Santa Monica ↗
The Infatuation
National lifestyle“Review, address-confirmed (602 Santa Monica Blvd). No specific sourcing content in the retrieved body.”
Coverage
- Farm to Table Restaurants Santa Monica ↗
santamonica.com (Santa Monica Travel & Tourism)
PressJosh
“Dedicated section (verified by section-header anchoring): chef-owner Andrew Kirschner and GM/partner Johnnie Jenkins rotate wood type (apple, oak, almond, olive, walnut) per dish in their wood-fired grill/oven; menu built around wood-fired proteins (goat, standing rib rack). Featured specifically in a farm-to-table roundup, but no single named farm/producer supplying this venue in the retrieved text -- an honest absence for the producer-name field. NOTE: the roundup's 'Rancho Gordo'/'Hope Ranch' hits belong to a DIFFERENT restaurant's section (confirmed by header check), not attributed here.”
mentions sourcing