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Owner Joe Reynolds transformed a strip-mall Romanian restaurant into a cross between an old-school Hollywood haunt and a gussied-up basement rec room with a basic Italian menu and some sort of entertainment (comedy, dramedy, live music) six nights a week.
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A butcher and a baker but no candlestick maker.
Wipe the lasagna tre formaggi con ragu Bolognese off your chin. Leonardo DiCaprio is in the corner of this Italian gem, and he’s totally staring at you.
And you thought doing it behind the bleachers was lame.
A little French fare in the courtyard sounds just right morning, noon, or night. Move into the lobby lounge if the moment (or the powerful Writer’s Block cocktail) strikes you.
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).
Rock ’n’ roll will never die. Neither will this joint. Consider a late-night pasta to soak up the stiff drinks.