Stay the Bouchon course with Thomas Keller.
Stay the Bouchon course with Thomas Keller.
Let Napa have French Laundry and New York City keep Per Se. Thomas Keller’s first Southern California outpost of the famed restaurant suits us Angelenos just fine.
One good reason to start spooning in The Valley.
Head down to The Valley for chef Andre Guerrero (Max, The Oinkster, BoHo) and Gary Menes’s (last seen at Palate) always-changing, green-market-minded, French-influenced menu paired with an impressive yet approachable wine list.
Sometimes you just need a nosh. Head to the top floor of Barneys New York for lox and bagels with a view of the hood.
If the walls of the storied hotel’s dining room could talk, they’d say come for the eternally tony ambience, the who’s-who people watching, and the Caesar salad. But they can’t. And they can’t take pictures either.
Photo: Nikolas Koenig / Courtesy of Chateau Marmont
It’s the most important meal of the day, so make it healthy (delicious): steel-cut oatmeal (with maple syrup and bourbon pecans) or poached eggs (with smoked Canadian bacon and baby spinach atop a roll with hollandaise).
Go to see and be seen at the shabby chic home of scrumptious fried chicken, delectable minty gin gimlets, and a perpetually paparazzi-filled sidewalk.
See food? Eat it at this Maryland-inspired resto. Grub on oysters, ceviche, and wild-caught fish while chugging inventive bevvies made with just-squeezed juice and jazzy fixings, alcoholic or not.
Photo: Courtesy of Hungry Cat
Pucker up and give the to-stay/to-go restaurant a big kiss for hot or cold sandwiches, freshly made soups, veggie-centric sides, sweet treats, and four kinds of seasonal lemonade.