Dining details: La Terza

La Terza

Rating: ***

Location: 8384 W. 3rd St., Los Angeles, (323) 782-8384.

Ambience: Modern, minimal. People make the place and the food makes the people happy, so it works.

Service: The management and wine service are knowledgeable, but as yet, the wait staff can be gauche.

Price: Dinner antipasti, $9 to $16; pasta, $14 to $17; fish and meat, $24 to $38; desserts, $9.

Best dishes: Ravioli with grilled radicchio, slow-cooked pork shank, rotisserie duck, everything from the rotisserie, grilled cuttlefish, cream tart with pine nuts, fruit fritters, sauteed rapini with chile.

Wine list: The list is exceptional, with unusually high-quality wines available by the glass. Corkage, $15.

Details: Breakfast, 7 to 11:30 a.m. Monday to Saturday, 7 to 10 a.m. Sunday. Lunch, 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Monday to Saturday. Brunch, 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Sunday. Dinner, 5:30 to 11 p.m. daily. Full bar. Valet parking.

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.