Dining details: AK Restaurant + Bar

AK Restaurant + Bar ** 1/2 LOCATION 1633 Abbot Kinney Blvd., Venice; (310) 392-6644; www.PRICE Dinner appetizers, $11 to $16; main courses, $23 to $36; sides, $9, cheeses, $5 each; desserts, $5 and $9. Brunch items, $11 to $15. Sunday night 3-course prix fixe menu, $35.BEST DISHES Steamed mussels with merguez sausage, hedgehog mushroom toast, aquavit-cured salmon gravlax, trio of herring, arctic char with winter shelling bean succotash, meatballs with lingonberries, skirt steak with star anise, profiteroles, vanilla crème caramel.WINE LIST Globe-trotting list of wines by the glass, plus a modest one-page wine list with a number of wines under $50. Corkage fee, $20.DETAILS Open for dinner from 5:30 to 10:30 p.m. nightly, with bar menu until 1 a.m. and brunch from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Full bar. Valet parking, $5.Rating is based on food, service and ambience, with price taken into account in relation to quality. ****: Outstanding on every level. ***: Excellent. **: Very good. *: Good. No star: Poor to satisfactory.latimes.com/DailyDishMore photos of AK Restaurant + Bar and its signature dishes.