WHY Really fantastic café food: sandwiches on fresh bread, homemade soups, a perfect chopped salad, wonderful desserts.

WHAT The bakery and café from the husband-and-wife chefs at Rustic Canyon, Josh Loeb and Zoe Nathan, is a place of deafening noise and recession-resistant crowds, who line up at breakfast and lunch to order pricey ciabatta sandwiches filled with burrata, marinated peppers and prosciutto; irresistibly aromatic rotisserie Jidori chicken; salads of flawless ingredients; and the best cookies we’ve had in ages.

WHO Impeccably manicured westside women who don’t bat an eye at $8 tarts.