My only two neices and one of my grand niece were visiting Santa Monica. My oldest son and I joined them for breakfast at Shutters on the Beach, which is where they were staying. We had a reservation and were seated on the patio. The five of us were sitting there as several restaurant employees walked past us. Finally, one of them said someone would be right with you. A few minutes later our server showed up and took our drink orders. Again we waited. I asked a different server where our drinks were. Several minutes later, a different person brought four of the five drinks. Again, we waited. Finally our server shows up with the final drink and takes our breakfast order. The food was very good but the service was lousy. I was very dissappointed that such a fancy (not to mention very expensive) place, provided such poor service. I'm pretty sure this was not the "norm" at Shutters. It is my opinion that whoever our server was should be retrained or let go.