One of the Bay Area’s most famous chefs will head down the coast to Rodeo Drive for her forthcoming restaurant. Dominique Crenn, the chef behind three Michelin-starred Atelier Crenn in San Francisco, will open a new restaurant with Dior in Beverly Hills, reports WWD. Monsieur Dior by Dominique Crenn, set to open this fall, will sit on the third floor of Dior’s new Beverly Hills flagship.
Monsieur Dior will feature a lounge with a bar and a main dining room, as well as indoor and outdoor spaces, accommodating a total of 105 guests. The restaurant is expected to serve lunch and dinner. WWD reports that dishes on the menu will take inspiration from Dior garments, such as a tuna tartare with purple yam chips and crème fraîche, a nod to a layered eggplant-colored tulle gown worn by Emilia Clarke at Cannes in 2018. Other dishes include a black truffle agnolotti with mushroom consommé, guinea hen with maitake mushrooms and turnips, and a rib-eye cap with cauliflower purée and black truffle. For dessert, coconut cream with raspberries and pistachio, and devil’s food cake with chocolate mousse and cherry make appearances.
Architect Peter Marino, who also worked on Dior Seoul and Louis Vuitton Los Angeles, designed the restaurant, drawing on Dior’s ornate style and history. Initial imagery shows a wood-clad bar backed by a geometric mirror and chairs printed with a leaf motif set in a spacious dining room. The outdoor patio features plush lounge and table seating set against a curved planter. All of the plateware at the restaurant will be Dior.
Monsieur Dior will open just down the street from Gucci Osteria, the lavish Italian restaurant from Massimo Bottura and Gucci, which remains a popular destination five years after its opening. Even though Gucci Osteria is part of a global chain, it has retained a Michelin star since 2021.
While Monsieur Dior will be Crenn’s first restaurant in Los Angeles, she has deep roots in the city. In the late 1990s, Crenn joined the Manhattan Country Club as its executive chef, then went on to work at the now-closed Adobe. For a brief period in 2020 and 2021, she brought her plant-based meal delivery service VitaBowl to Los Angeles, but it has since shuttered.