A preferred and groundbreaking wine bar from two of L.A.’s most celebrated restaurateurs is ready to shut this summer time. On Saturday the Lucques Group’s Suzanne Goin and Caroline Styne introduced they are going to shutter the Brentwood location of A.O.C. on Aug. 1, ending their run of 16 years within the area.

Goin and Styne cited a variety of things of their choice to shut the Brentwood location, together with sustained monetary damages from the 2025 fires, the 2024 leisure trade strikes, the pandemic and excessive hire.

Za’atar lamb chops with Swiss chard and cherry tomato salad at A.O.C. in Brentwood.

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A.O.C. in West Hollywood will stay open. The lauded California-cuisine restaurant and wine bar has helped proliferate elegant however informal, produce-driven small plates since its founding in 2002. Goin and Styne operated Tavern, one other of their eating places, within the Brentwood area till 2021 and opened a brand new, bigger location of A.O.C. in that location the identical yr.

“If the two A.O.C.s share little in common physically, they are identical twins philosophically,” L.A. Instances Meals critic Invoice Addison wrote in a 2021 assessment. “The menu redoubles the communal, small-plates ethos that Goin and Styne led the charge to codify in Los Angeles. The bounty is Californian; the oomph of flavors draws on cuisines distinct to the many cultures that exist around the continents-spanning Mediterranean Sea.”

A.O.C. is open in Brentwood Monday and Tuesday from 5 to 9 p.m., Wednesday and Thursday from 11:30 a.m. to 9 p.m., Friday from 11:30 a.m. to 10 p.m., Saturday from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.

11648 San Vicente Blvd., Los Angeles, (310) 806-6464, aocwinebar.com

Laing dip of stewed taro leaves, coconut milk and shrimp paste with focaccia at Manila Inasal.

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Manila Inasal

What began as a homespun operation and catering service is now a buzzing eating room and a rising middle of Filipino tradition in Silver Lake.

Manila Inasal started humbly in chef Natalia Moran’s San Juan residence kitchen, the place she cooked to feed entrance line employees in the course of the pandemic. After reconnecting along with her longtime household mates — Elzar Dodjie Simon, his spouse and youngsters — they grew to become enterprise companions and fashioned an L.A. ghost kitchen and catering service for Filipino rice bowls and heaped trays stuffed with the likes of lumpia, adobo and ube mochi brownies.

Followers grew to become so ravenous that a number of friends drove hours for a style, generally visiting from different states, solely to seek out no bodily area for eating. It was then, the Simon household informed The Instances, that they realized they wanted to open a full restaurant.

Manila Inasal’s tuna sinimak crudo with coconut milk, spiced vinegar and guava granita.

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On the group’s brick-and-mortar area, situated in a strip mall bordering Virgil Village, Moran and the Simons are serving much more fashionable spins onFilipino delicacies with an expanded menu and choices akin to salted duck egg Caesar salad, laing reimagined as dip with focaccia, inasal-marinated milkfish, crab tortang talong, pork stomach lechon sisig, a deconstructed kare kare made with oxtail and macadamia nuts and jackfruit-and-tofu adobo.

The dishes are portioned and served household type, a nod to Filipino’s community-focused tradition. Moran can be growing a high-tea menu, in addition to new specials.

“We wanted to bring Filipino ingenuity and modernity,” stated working chief Elisha Paul Simon, including, “We’re just so proud of Filipino culture in a world where it’s so diverse.”

“We want to be part of the diversity,” stated Moran. “There’s lots of Thai restaurants and Japanese and Korean ones. We want to make sure Filipino food is somewhere there, too.”

Elzar Dodjie Simon, a songwriter and music producer, additionally constructed a small stage into the eating room, the place friends can hear Filipino artists’ reside music on weekends. Manila Inasal is open Tuesday to Saturday from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. and Sunday from 11 a.m. to eight p.m.

240 Virgil Ave., Los Angeles, (909) 206-5568, manilainasal.com

Grilled vermillion snapper with tarragon salmoriglio at Beethoven Market in Mar Vista.

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Beethoven Market

One of many Westside’s hottest new eating places is serving rotisserie chickens, contemporary pastas, a rainbow of seasonal greens and fruit-laced salads, budget-conscious cocktails and house-made gelati in a former Mar Vista market and nook retailer. Hospitality vet and L.A. native Jeremy Adler (who labored at Cobi’s and Resy) wished to reimagine the 1949-built Beethoven Market right into a neighborhood restaurant the place households and dates can comingle on a tree-dotted, bulb-lit patio or within the dim, continually buzzing eating room that overlooks a semi-open kitchen.

To go that kitchen, Adler tapped govt chef Michael Leonard (previously of Rustic Canyon, Bucato and Mom Wolf), who leans closely on the Santa Monica Farmers Market to tell his menu. Leonard’s dishes pattern Italian with a California-produce bent, akin to seared prawns with contemporary salsa verde; pizzas that come topped with clams, heirloom-pork sausage, zucchini, Meyer lemon and past; salads vivid with citrus or stone fruit; and pork collar with cherries and roasted cabbage. Cocktails, priced round $13, contain strawberry shrubs, thyme-infused aperitifs, vodka infused with olive oil and extra.

A view of the patio at Beethoven Market in Mar Vista.

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It’s Adler’s first standalone restaurant and one he hopes might be a boon to the neighborhood. The restaurateur lives close by and needs to construct extra group by means of companies like a attainable early reservation system for locals. Beethoven Market is open Sunday to Wednesday from 5 to 9 p.m. and Thursday to Saturday from 5 to 10 p.m., with brunch service to comply with.

12904 Palms Blvd., Los Angeles, (323) 579-1391, beethovenmarket.com

Questlove’s Mixtape

Westlake Village’s buzzy new meals corridor is already residence to a few of L.A.’s largest names, together with Mini Kabob and a pizza offshoot from the Cheese Retailer of Beverly Hills.

Questlove’s restaurant, Mixtape, gives antibiotic- and hormone-free hen tenders and hen sandwiches in Westlake Village.

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Now, one of many world’s most well-known musicians is becoming a member of the quick-service meals lineup. Grammy Award-winning artist Questlove — born Ahmir Thompson — is maybe finest recognized for his work as a producer and because the Roots’ drummer and co-frontman, however he’s additionally a cookbook creator and meals aficionado.

Now he’s launched Mixtape, a brand new hen shack that makes a speciality of tenders, ground-chicken burgers and fried hen sandwiches, plus providing vegetarian choices and sides akin to black-eyed peas slaw and waffle fries. Company order Mixtape objects from a contact display screen inside Neighborly meals corridor, which permits for mixing and matching dishes throughout the meals corridor’s stands. Mixtape is open Sunday to Thursday from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. and Friday and Saturday from 11 a.m. to 9:30 p.m.

4000 E. Thousand Oaks Blvd., Westlake Village, beneighborly.com

A sweet steak pita with brisket, onions, mustard and pickles at Miznon in Grand Central Market.

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Miznon

Prolific chef Eyal Shani not too long ago touched down in Los Angeles with the primary of what he hopes might be a number of West Coast eating places. With a menu involving contemporary stuffed pita, blistered peppers and a signature complete child cauliflower, Shani’s quick-and-casual Center Japanese restaurant Miznon can now be present in Grand Central Market within the former Sari Sari Retailer stall.

Shani based his pita store in Tel Aviv in 2011, then expanded the operation globally with outposts that embody Tokyo, Paris, London, New York Metropolis and Las Vegas — the place it’s probably the greatest eating places on or off the Strip. Shani, now with greater than 40 eating places below his hospitality group, riffs on his Moroccan and Iraqi Jewish heritage and fashionable classics with Miznon dishes akin to lamb kebab pita with spicy inexperienced peppers and grilled tomato; hen schnitzel with matbucha; mesabaha lima beans with hard-boiled egg and tomato seeds; steel-seared “candy” brisket; cheeseburger pita sandwiches; and a fish-and-chips pita made with branzino, potatoes and vinegar. Miznon is open day by day in Grand Central Market from 11 a.m to 9 p.m.

317 S. Broadway, Los Angeles, miznonusa.com