Playa Provisions

If you’re in Playa del Rey and your stomach has any sense at all, Playa Provisions is basically mandatory. This place is like a culinary playground on steroids — four concepts under one roof, so you can eat, sip, snack, and somehow still have room for dessert.

Start your day at King Beach Café, where breakfast and lunch hit all the comfort-food buttons you didn’t even know you had. Come evening, Dockside transforms into your beachside dream: California coastal cuisine so good it makes you question why your couch exists at all. Think vacation on a plate, but without the awkward sunburn.

Dessert? Oh, it’s happening. Small Batch serves house-made ice cream that will ruin all other ice creams for you forever (sorry, grocery store tubs, you’re cancelled). Prefer your indulgence liquid? Grain, the whiskey bar hiding in the back, has your name written all over a mysterious, smoky cocktail.

The food here? Let’s just say your taste buds are in for a full-on theme park experience. Start with the Garlic and Pepper Fried Calamari, featuring rock shrimp, clams, and squid with lemon chips, cocktail sauce, and tartar sauce — basically, seafood doing the cha-cha on your tongue. The Salt Cod Clam Chowder arrives in a garlic butter sourdough bowl — yes, a bowl you can eat. Stop drooling.

Salads aren’t just salads here: the Wedge Salad is bacon, egg, tomato, red onion, blue cheese, and sherry-blue cheese dressing, aka the salad that makes other salads weep.

Mains? Strap in. The Connecticut Style Seafood Sandwich (Dungeness crab, lobster, shrimp, tarragon, chives) is basically a warm hug in a buttery brioche roll. Fish and Chips? Crispy, fennel-pollen-kissed potatoes, malted vinegar, tartar sauce — perfection in every bite. The Patty Melt with dry-aged beef, gruyere, caramelized onion, BBQ sauce, and arugula on rye is life-changing. And the Crab Mac & Cheese? Let’s just say if there were a gold medal for indulgence, this would win it, hands down.

And if you think you’re too full… think again. Small Batch ice cream is calling your name. All flavors are dangerous, all are delicious, and all should be experienced.

Pro tip: Wear stretchy pants. Your taste buds will thank you.


Recommended Dishes:
Calamari, Crab Mac and Cheese, Fish and Chips, Clam Chowder, Seafood Sandwich
Tips:
Valet Parking
Location(s):
Playa del Rey