Review: At Viviane in the Avalon Hotel, Michael Hung's French cooking is clean and soft

Jonathan Gold reviews Viviane in the Avalon Hotel Beverly Hills. He recommends you end with the milk-chocolate cremeux.
Jonathan Gold • Los Angeles Times • January 1, 2016
If you are tangentially involved in the entertainment industry, you have probably spent your share of afternoons at the Avalon Hotel, stopping by for an egg-white frittata with a visiting screenwriter friend, horning in on a buddy’s lunch with his...
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