Dining details: Craft

Craft

Rating: ***

Location: 10100 Constellation Blvd., Century City; (310) 279- 4180; www.craftrestaurant.com.

Ambience: Sophisticated business restaurant with plenty of table real estate and roomy booths by rows of hanging Edison lightbulbs. Terrace tables overlook a small, leafy park and sleek cabanas.

Service: Well-orchestrated and professional; good teamwork.

Price: Dinner first courses, $13 to 25; main courses, $26 to $96 (the latter, a Japanese Wagyu sirloin); lunch first courses, $10 to $23; sandwiches, $12 to $15; main courses, $25 to $35; three-course prix fixe lunch menu, $38.

Best dishes: Pork belly with Madras curry; quail and huckleberry; foie gras terrine; duck egg with confit duck gizzard and duck cracklings; baby Sonoma lamb for two; aged New York strip; heirloom bean and leeks; black-eyed peas and pumpernickel; plum tarte tatin; glazed doughnuts.

Wine list: Wide-ranging and interesting. Corkage fee, $35 (waived on Sundays).

Best table: A roomy booth.

Details: Dinner 6 to 10 p.m. Sunday through Thursday, 6 to 10:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 5 to 9 p.m. Sunday. Lunch is 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. Full bar. Valet parking, $8; free parking in self-park garage with validation.

Rating is based on food, service and ambience; price taken into account in relation to quality. ****: Outstanding on every level. ***: Excellent. **: Very good. *: Good. No star: Poor to satisfactory.

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