Wolfgang Puck Cafe

Mark Peel helped codify the notion of American 'urban rustic' cooking

Bill Addison • Los Angeles Times • June 21, 2021

Colonial Revival set piece of a structure built by Charlie Chaplin in 1929. Until they split in 2005, they were viewed by the world as the first couple of the nation’s emergent California-Mediterranean restaurant ethos. Both chefs had worked for Wolfgang

Puck during his ascendance with Spago. They helped him tease out his wild, New West vision of food as a grab bag of fusion flavors and the kitchen as a playground of ideas. For their own restaurant, though, they moved in the opposite direction of smoked

In Time for Valentine’s Day, These Are the Most Romantic Restaurants in L.A.

Brittany Martin • Los Angeles Magazine • February 4, 2020

space has sleek furnishings and plants galore for a modern-tropical vibe. 9040 W. Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood. Wolfgang Puck at Hotel Bel-Air View this post on Instagram A post shared by Hotel Bel-Air (@hotelbelair) on Jan 28, 2020 at 2:22pm PST The

breezy garden setting of this Wolfgang Puck restaurant offers a fresh alternative to more dark, clubby spots. Under the lattice roof, you’ll be dining on locally-sourced, Mediterranean-inspired fare. 701 Stone Canyon Rd., Bel-Air.

How and why we chose our Restaurant of the Year

Bill Addison • Los Angeles Times • May 22, 2021

innovation, brilliance and sensitivity to aesthetics, culture and the environment.” Wolfgang Puck was its first recipient. This year, Laurie Ochoa, Gold’s wife and a deputy editor of The Times’ Entertainment and Arts team, named Oaxacan restaurant and L.A

Review: Buzzy Mother Wolf serves Roman pastas to the Hollywood power scene

Bill Addison • Los Angeles Times • April 21, 2022

-in-L.A. disconnect between “industry restaurants” and “serious restaurants,” an odd juxtaposition of broadly pleasing menus and VIP pampering and other case-by-case intangibles. Funke — an L.A. native who spent formative years learning from Wolfgang

Puck at Spago and whose father is an Academy Award-winning special effects photographer — has an insider’s instinct for coddling the Hollywood elite. Yet any Los Angeles restaurant obsessives familiar with Funke’s cooking also knows he’s a perfectionist

10 great new pizza restaurants in L.A., ranked by our critic

Bill Addison • Los Angeles Times • August 12, 2022

dozen years ago, L.A. wasn’t much of a pizza town. Our stake in the genre was the designer pie. Ed LaDou, who died in 2007, is credited as a chief architect: In 1982, he was the first pizza chef at Spago, working alongside Wolfgang Puck as the soon-to-be

Review: Stop calling Tim Ho Wan a Michelin-starred restaurant

Brad A. Johnson • Orange County Register • July 25, 2019

rating it using my star system, I would give it four stars. Enthusiastically.  Tim Ho Wan is no Lung King Heen. Rather, Tim Ho Wan is to Lung King Heen what a Wolfgang Puck Express at the airport is to Wolfgang Puck’s Spago in Beverly Hills.  So, everyone

Porridge + Puff's Minh Phan debuts Hollywood pop-up Phenakite

Bill Addison • Los Angeles Times • October 21, 2020

expanding crew: Joanne Bae (whose resume includes Maude and Here’s Looking At You) is Phenakite’s chef de cuisine, joined by chef and fishmonger Claire Ito, consulting chef Jenny Ung (formerly at Wolfgang Puck Test Kitchen) and general manager Trinh Dang

101 Best Restaurants in L.A.: the Hall of Fame

Bill Addison, Patricia Escárcega, Brian Park • Los Angeles Times • December 12, 2019

an introduction than Wolfgang Puck’s Beverly Hills flagship. Vie for a table in the energized main dining room. Indulge in corn-filled agnolotti and crispy-scaled black bass with rich sauce Americaine (and order a pizza while you’re at it). The pièce

Sandwich Shop This Persian Square cafe is a trove of excellent Iranian home-style cooking. The thick kuku sabzi is a savory herb-green omelet tucked into a soft French-style roll. We love the beef tongue sandwich, a meaty, voluptuous muddle of tender beef

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L.A.’s dining timeline has gone through some major cultural ripples

Bill Addison • Los Angeles Times • January 3, 2020

-forlorn block of downtown. Financial pressures force Taymor and partner Ashleigh Parsons to close in 2015, but Alma’s fierce creativity helps inspire a new generation of tiny, bleeding-edge L.A. restaurants. Wolfgang Puck’s flagship Spago in Beverly Hills

the big prize was Wolfgang Puck in 1998 (and even that was a tie with New York’s Jean-Georges Vongerichten). 2015 n/naka opened in 2011. But after chef-owner Niki Nakayama is the subject of an emotionally rich episode of Netflix’s “Chef’s Table” in

As Insurance Claims Are Denied, Classic L.A. Restaurants Are Struggling to Weather the Pandemic

Chris Nichols • Los Angeles Magazine • April 27, 2020

of discussion about the insurance companies paying the claims if the federal government will reimburse the insurance industry. Wolfgang Puck and Thomas Keller are pushing for that.” View this post on Instagram A post shared by Bob's Big Boy Broiler