C'est La Vie Restaurant, Laguna Beach

Even though C'est La Vie Restaurant serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner, its most important offering might be its desserts. The bakers' virtuosic creations include tarts, fluffy pastries, and the LA Times-lauded Eiffel Tower crepe, which bursts with fresh whipped cream and berries. Crepes occupy a place of honor on the breakfast menu too, bundling apples and cinnamon or mango puree and vanilla ice cream to give mornings a sweet start. These toothsome offerings complement the restaurant's other prize dishes like omelets and benedicts. At lunch and dinner, the menu gets increasingly sophisticated with pasta piled high with crab or filet mignon and saffron bouillabaisse, not to mention a few stuffed crepes, too.