Diners' Choice: Best Service restaurants in Palm Springs / Palm Desert Cities

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Updated June 05, 2025

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Desert Moon Palm Springs

4.8

4.8 (102)

$31 to $50

Contemporary American

Palm Springs

About the restaurant

## Desert Moon Palm Springs: A Culinary Oasis in the Heart of California Escape to a world of culinary delights at Desert Moon Palm Springs, where California's vibrant flavors come alive on your plate. Our newly reinvented menu is a celebration of diverse influences, showcasing the freshest seasonal ingredients and innovative culinary techniques. **Indulge in a symphony of tastes:** * **Pan-seared Chilean Sea Bass:** Delicately cooked with a crispy skin, served with fragrant jasmine rice, sautéed spinach, and a tantalizing mushroom-edamame-mirin sauce. * **Blackened Poblano Chicken:** A succulent chicken breast stuffed with creamy cheese, nestled on a bed of mango rice with a vibrant avocado puree and seasonal vegetables. * **8oz Grilled Filet Mignon:** A classic cut of prime beef, cooked to perfection and drizzled with a rich rosemary demi-glaze. Accompanied by roasted garlic mashed potatoes, sautéed spinach, and a delightful cranberry-butter sauce. * **Thai Coconut Curry:** A fragrant and flavorful medley of shrimp, scallop, salmon, seabass, red bell peppers, tomatoes, and fresh herbs, simmered in a creamy coconut broth. **Sweeten your experience:** * **Chocolate Rum

Top review

JanVIP

Dined 1 day ago

This was our 2nd visit and both times the food and wine was excellent, the service professional, friendly and attentive. This restaurant has been added to the top of our favorites in Palm Springs. ,

Canopy Wine Lounge

4.9

4.9 (156)

$50 and over

Wine Bar

Palm Springs

About the restaurant

Canopy Wine Lounge is a driving source for wine & community no matter where your palate takes you. To curate this lounge, a partnership formed between longtime Palm Springs local Noah Mamet and the owner of our 15 unique winery properties around the globe. Our decor is a modern take on the popular design of the 1950's, using clean lines, pops of color, and various textured fabrics and fixtures.

To accent our wine bar, we have a custom-built clay amphora where our in-house winemaker will be fermenting and ageing a Californian rosé. Glowing fireplace features highlight our meticulously curated selection of desert plants. Our food bites are meant to be paired with quality-driven wines and lively conversation between friends.

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Jennifer

Dined on Jun 1, 2025

Great service. Great food. Amazing wine. Highly recommend and will definitely go back!

grnd sqrl

4.5

4.5 (29)

$30 and under

American

Twentynine Palms

About the restaurant

a beer and food oasis in the dez, grnd sqrl seeks to be a funky and delicious dose of memorable food and drink for those that need it. we offer scratch-made eats, the freshest craft beers, and top-notch desert vibes. stop by and see us in downtown twentynine palms.

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AndrewVIP

Dined on May 17, 2025

A fun local place, with an excellent beer selection and quality simple food. Pickle plate was awesome! Happy staff makes a place work..

Oceans

4.8

4.8 (1520)

$31 to $50

Seafood

Cathedral City

About the restaurant

Oceans a Mediterranean is fine dinning style seafood restaurant at its location since 1995.This intimate European restaurant brings the Oceans to desert offering fresh seafood prepared in classic Mediterranean and Californian styles. Dishes like bouillabaisse, paella, abalone sea bass, sand dabs, shrimp, scallops, lobster, salmon, swordfish, tuna, oysters are served every day. Not a fish lover? Oceans offers meat specials for meat lovers 16 oz veal chop, rack of lamb and steaks. Oceans serves premium spirits and an extensive wine list. Do not wait and jump to Oceans.

Top review

cecil

Dined on May 30, 2025

Good food, value and good service. seabass and salmon were excellent

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4.8

4.8 (3288)

$50 and over

Steak

Cabazon

About the restaurant

Cielo, is a Steak and Seafood Restaurant that celebrates a distinctly comfortable, Californian approach to fine dining. Each dish, inspired by traditional steak and seafood fare, showcases the fresh flavors of California’s farm produce and presents it with a playful sense of humor. Known for its warm, accommodating service, Cielo is a special dining experience with a casual touch. Cielo is nestled in California’s Cabazon Valley, 20 miles west of Palm Springs, and in between the spectacular San Gorgonio and San Jacinto mountain ranges. Located on the 27th floor of the Morongo Resort and Casino, Cielo is set aglow with stunning chandeliers. Cielo is quite literally a jewel at the top of the Morongo Resort and Casino.

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Kandi

Dined 1 day ago

Large portions, service was impeccable, food was amazing!

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Popular dish

Petite Filet Mignon

Popular dish

Prime New York Strip Steak

Popular dish

Caesar Salad

Clandestino

4.8

4.8 (1071)

$30 and under

Mexican

Palm Springs

About the restaurant

Clandestino is the moody sister of Tac/Quila. Serving elevated and fresh Mexican food. Located right next to the Marilyn Monroe statue in downtown Palm Springs. The restaurant is headed by Chef Gustavo Carreon who has worked diligently to create a menu that highlights the best that his home country has to offer. Some Clandestino exclusives include stuffed squash blossoms and cochinita pibil. We have 100% outdoor seating.

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AlanVIP

Dined 4 days ago

Wonderful location and setting outdoors. Cocktails were fresh with a single large ice cube. We shared multiple dishes that were all delicious. This continues to be a spot on our list of favorites. Will return soon.

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Popular dish

Fajitas

Popular dish

Fried Squash Blossoms

Popular dish

Chicken

SO.PA at L'Horizon Resort and Spa

4.7

4.7 (769)

$50 and over

Californian

Palm Springs

About the restaurant

An ADULTS ONLY destination by Reservation. SO•PA has a NO PETS POLICY.

Decadent, refined, and intimate, SO•PA offers a unique alfresco dining experience. Join us for dinner in an intimate outdoor setting under the stars as Chef Igor Krichmar presents the seasonally enticing menu. Your elegant, yet relaxed evening includes world class cocktails and a sophisticated, yet approachable wine cellar curated by our in-house Certified Sommelier. You won't want to miss an aperitif or digestif at our exclusive fire pit and poolside bar. VALET is COMPLIMENTARY.

**2024 Winner of Diners Choice Award**
During cooler climate weather, SO•PA maintains its temperate and warm ambience with strategically placed heaters in addition to our intimate alfresco firepit.

Top review

BrianVIP

Dined on May 3, 2025

Some of the best food in the desert. And beautiful outdoor dining area for warm (but not too hot) evenings. It’s very expensive but if that’s not a factor, I highly recommend it.

Counter Reformation

4.9

4.9 (270)

$30 and under

Wine Bar

Palm Desert

About the restaurant

Bar seating and ledge-leaning is the rule of thumb—think Paris tabac or the zinc—the heat of local life, crowded with regulars at the counter waiting for their vin rouge. Here you’ll find our Cave à Manger, an eclectic curation of wines by the glass, paired with a menu of small plated savory delicacies created for this tasting smorgasbord. More than an amuse-bouche, less than a serving. Range, variety, exploration, and discovery are the point.

Counter Reformation is located inside Parker Palm Springs, a Leading Hotels of the World property. Valet parking is complimentary when you dine.

Reservations are recommended, but if you don’t see availability, just walk in for the next seat at the counter.

Want to dive deeper into the wine list? Meet Bruce Barrett, our hotel sommelier—just ask for him.

Top review

WayneVIP

Dined on Jun 6, 2025

We had great tasting food and fun service at your restaurant.

Johnny Costa's

4.8

4.8 (2373)

$31 to $50

Italian

Palm Springs

About the restaurant

From the classic Italian music to the candlelit tables, the nostalgic atmosphere at Johnny Costa’s Ristorante feels like traveling back to midcentury times. It’s no wonder Frank Sinatra was once a regular at this fine Italian restaurant, which has been honored by Palm Springs Life as best Italian restaurant for 10 consecutive years. The Costa family continues the legacy of late chef-owner Johnny Costa, who was pals with Sinatra when he moved to Hollywood from New York in the 1960s, and a decade later served as the singer’s personal chef at his desert home. Costa’s pedigree lives on in his legendary recipes, including his classic cioppino. Open for dinner at 5 p.m. Closed Sunday & Monday

Top review

DennisVIP

Dined 3 days ago

Great food and service. I would recommend to visit the restaurant

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4.8

4.8 (1632)

$31 to $50

French

Palm Desert

About the restaurant

Chez Pierre Bistro is an authentic and most charming French bistro that everybody wished they had in their neighborhood, where Chef Pierre develops his profound love for creative and innovative ideas in his kitchen.
The ambiance is intimate, friendly, his staff always very professional and his charming wife Esther watches over the dining room.

Chef Pierre has the extensive knowledge, passion and respect of the best ingredients from local farmers markets. His cuisine is superb and his daily specials are impressive, unique and follow the seasons.
In the winter you can find his famous cassoulet, in the spring, shad roe and soft shell crabs, in the summer, paella in addition to a selection of wild fish.

It is no surprise that Chez Pierre Bistro has been voted Best French restaurant of the Desert for the past 10 years and nominated among ”Best Chef of America” by his peers.

Top review

LauraVIP

Dined 2 days ago

Food was superb, very flavorful, excellent service.

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