French-trained pastry chef Romuald Guiot, formerly of three-Michelin-starred La Maison de Marc Veyrat and a finalist on Season 8 of Food Network’s Spring Baking Championship, is opening a vegan bakery and wine bar at 169 West Green Street in Pasadena in early October. Guiot moved to the U.S. in 2015 to open La Mirabelle bakery in New York City before settling in Los Angeles with stints at Pitchoun Downtown and Porto’s Bakery in Buena Park. Guiot spent the past year catering private events while getting the new business off the ground.
The pastry side of the operation is called ID-Eclair and specializes in classic French pastries, along with riffs on eclairs, which the chef considers his favorite pastry for its portability and versatility. The wine bar, La Cave, will pour mostly French varietals that Guiot plans to pair with plated desserts. Follow on Instagram for the latest on when ID-Eclair and La Cave will open.
Celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival with Wolfgang Puck
Celebrity chef Wolfgang Puck is celebrating the Mid-Autumn Festival at Merois on the rooftop of Pendry West Hollywood on Friday, September 20. In addition to food from Puck’s Merois, Chinois, Cut, and Spago, the event will feature dishes from Nancy Silverton (Chi Spacca, Osteria Mozza, Pizzeria Mozza), Badmaash, Pizzeria Sei, the Lonely Oyster, and Mr. T. Dinner starts at 7 p.m. and costs $125 per person, not including beverages.
Silver Lake’s new boutique hotel
Silver Lake’s Hotel Lucile is set to open in early 2025. Housed in a church built in 1931 at the corner of Griffith Boulevard and Lucile Avenue, the hotel will have 25 guest rooms, a swimming pool, a rooftop lounge, and a restaurant and bar set in the building’s main chapel with high ceilings and original stained-glass windows. The same parent company is opening Hotel Marina Riviera in Big Bear around the same time.
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Top Chef in the Low Desert
Former Top Chef contestant Angelo Sosa opened two restaurants in the Grand Hyatt Indian Wells Resort and Villas on September 16. Tía Carmen, which is named after the chef’s aunt and has an outpost in Phoenix, is open for breakfast and dinner serving Southwest fare like lamb barbacoa with caviar. The second restaurant, Carmocha, is also inspired by Sosa’s aunt and serves dishes like a lobster roll and chile lime wings for lunch and dinner.
Highs and lows at Lucky Tiki
Time Out LA food and drink editor Patricia Kelly Yeo weighs in on Lucky Tiki, the hidden cocktail lounge above Tail o’ the Pup. “Lucky Tiki’s expert bartenders have pulled out all the stops in terms of presentation and theatrics, albeit with varying degrees of success,” Yeo writes. While she calls the mai tai and pina colada “strong and faithfully executed,” the Old Fashioned “doesn’t exactly put hair on your chest like an old-fashioned ought to.”