The acclaimed tasting menu restaurant is expected to make its surprise return in summer 2023 in West Hollywood.
Plus, a mezcal-forward restaurant and bar opens in Los Feliz, Evan Funke announces a three-story ‘pasta palace’ and more.“The circle was never closed with Somni; it was interrupted,” Zabala said by phone. “Everyone closed in the pandemic, but it was not natural, you know? [There was] something missing, and I was feeling that it’s not the right ending for a dream — and I am the person always looking for the next dream, but this dream, I was feeling there was no ending.
The chef, who had dreamed of opening his own restaurant since he was 19 or 20, first moved to the U.S. in 2007, persuaded by Andrés to leave El Bulli during its seasonal closure and help him develop L.A.’s Bazaar. He returned to Spain and the kitchen of El Bulli, then in 2010 gave Los Angeles another chance, returning to Andrés and, with him in 2018, debuting Somni.The chef’s new restaurants could open as soon as the summer.
The chef is hoping the more private locale will prove more tranquil for diners, as opposed to the buzz of the Bazaar’s multiple concepts humming just beyond the original Somni’s doors. The menu will likely launch with a few twists on some of the original Somni’s classics — perhaps a retooled version of the inventive take on a slice of pizza, which in Beverly Hills was made with meringue in lieu of crust and slathered with tomato liquid, then dotted with mozzarella mousse. Gradually, as staffing and training increase, new items will most likely be available, culled from the recipe book Zabala and his cook had been adding to in the test kitchen for the last two years.
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