Chez Panisse Legend Alice Waters Opens First Restaurant in Los Angeles This Fall
Legendary chef Alice Waters is opening her first new restaurant in decades at the Hammer Museum. The restaurant will highlight wholesome, responsibly grown foods sourced from local farms.
"Legendary chef Alice Waters is opening a restaurant in Los Angeles soon. The project will be Waters’ first new restaurant in decades, after opening the seminal Berkeley restaurant Chez Panisse.
Alice Waters at a table in her Berkeley home Photo by Gabrielle Lurie/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images While Waters’ new restaurant does not yet have a name, Eater has confirmed that it will land at the Hammer Museum, part of UCLA’s sprawling campus in the Westwood neighborhood. Waters won’t be alone in the opening either. Chef and longtime food writer David Tanis is set to join the team, along with Jesse McBride (an operations lead who previously worked at hospitality spaces like Chateau Marmont and the Standard group of hotels), plus Oliver Monday who will serve as the restaurant’s primary forager. In true Waters fashion, reps for the Hammer say, the restaurant will “highlight wholesome foods sourced from local farms dedicated to responsible and regenerative farming practices.”
That all sounds like something right up Waters’ alley. Her restaurant Chez Panisse has been held up for half a century as a bastion of sourcing, quality, and California bounty, relying on hyper-seasonal produce and a “less is more approach” to its menu. Chez Panisse, and Waters, are often held as pinnacles of the so-called Slow Food movement that prizes local food cultures and seasonal ingredients above all."— Farley Elliott, Jun. 3, 2021
This post is an excerpt. Read the full article on the Eater Los Angeles website.
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