mon,tue,wed,thu,fri,sat,sun, 2:00 PM - 6:00 PM · Santa Monica, Los Angeles
🍷 Wine $7, Peroni $6, Cava $8. Cocktails like Margaritas, Mules, Mojitos, and Bellinis $10, Spritzes $12-$14, and spirit-forward drinks -- Aperol, Campari, Negroni -- $12. 🍽️ Bites from $7-$16 -- fried pizza dough, rice balls, mussels, calamari, Filet Mignon Tartare, and salads. Pastas run $14-$16, plus Eggplant Parm at $15.
Santa Monica’s carb sanctuary, where the pasta gets tossed in giant wheels of cheese like it’s auditioning for a Scorsese film. The room is warm and bustling, the wine flows freely, and every table seems to be negotiating over who gets the last bite. It’s rich, a little theatrical, and absolutely not the place to pretend you’re “just having something light.”
Tossed tableside inside a wheel of pecorino romano. The dish that put Forma on the map.
Seasonal mushroom tortellini finished in a Bella Lodi cheese wheel with truffle oil.
Eight-hour braised boneless short rib folded into ravioli, finished with parmigiano.