On the third floor of a Long Beach Airport hangar, Ristorante DaVinci is a sumptuous place, with its 20-foot-high curved glass wall beyond which private jets touch down on the runways. It’s decadent from the beginning, but the “cartoccio” is the way to go, a dish of prawns, scallops, mussels, clams and calamari, brought to the table still tented with foil, the better to dramatically rip the foil in the middle and allow the seafood steam to escape.

RISTORANTE DAVINCI 2801 E SPRING ST | LONG BEACH 90806 | 562.685.8111 | DAVINCILB.COM | DINNER FOR TWO $50-250 | FULL BAR

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