{"id":177524,"date":"2025-08-26T17:00:19","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T17:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/177524\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T17:00:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T17:00:19","slug":"new-cocktail-bars-michelin-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/177524\/","title":{"rendered":"New Cocktail Bars & Michelin Stars"},"content":{"rendered":"

The season\u2019s hottest new openings and pop-ups, from Bar Benjamin to Moody Tongue Sushi, have equally important cocktail components<\/p>\n

\"\"Chicago\u2019s Michelin-starred Moody Tongue brewery launches the Moody Tongue Sushi pop-up at Four Seasons Hotel Los Angeles.Credit: Courtesy Moody Tongue\/Four Seasons Hotel Los Angeles at Beverly Hills<\/p>\n

This season, a new wave of lively dining options place equal weight on beverage offerings. The world\u2019s only Michelin-starred brewery \u2014 Chicago\u2019s Moody Tongue \u2014 pairs premium beer with sushi at Four Seasons Hotel Los Angeles. Two trendy restaurants (Mother Wolf and the Benjamin Hollywood) expand their brands with cocktail lounge offshoots. Pasjoli\u2019s popular bar menu items inspired the French restaurant\u2019s redesign, and SBE\u2019s sprawling new space at Westfield Century City houses Katsuya and Casa Dani restaurants and a trio of bars. Drink it all in.\u00a0<\/p>\n

1. Moody Tongue Sushi<\/strong><\/p>\n

On the heels of debuting a new poolside Mexican restaurant, La Ola, Four Seasons Hotel Los Angeles at Beverly Hills is partnering with Moody Tongue Brewing Company \u2014 the world\u2019s only Michelin-starred brewery, with restaurant counterparts in Chicago,
New York and Palm Beach \u2014 on a sushi pop-up running in the lounge through Sept. 14. Pair chef Hiromi Iwakiri\u2019s signature nigiri with Japanese-style lagers.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00bb <\/strong>300 S. Doheny Drive, Beverly Grove, fourseasons.com<\/a><\/p>\n

\"BarCredit: Robiee Ziegler<\/p>\n

2. Bar Avoja<\/strong><\/p>\n

The team behind Mother Wolf (chef Evan Funke and managing partner Giancarlo Pagani) transformed the clandestine space just past the restaurant into one of the most coveted new cocktail bars. Inside the Italian villa-inspired interiors, Bar Avoja (Roman slang for \u201chell yeah\u201d) serves reimagined classic cocktails alongside Funke\u2019s take on Roman street food \u2014 plus his famed focaccia and squash blossoms.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\u00bb <\/strong>1545 Wilcox Ave., Hollywood, motherwolfla.com<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"BarBenjamin_TheBar Benjamin\u2019s The Odd Couple cocktailCredit: Marcus Meisler<\/p>\n

3. Bar Benjamin<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Benjamin Hollywood owners Ben Shenassafar, Jared Meisler and Kate Burr teamed with beverage experts Jason Lee (n\/soto, Baroo) and Chad Austin (The Mulholland, Bootlegger Tiki) to open an art deco-inspired cocktail bar above their buzzy restaurant. Try playful concoctions like the Odd Couple (with white chocolate and olive oil tequila) alongside bar bites such as shrimp rolls and steak tartare.<\/p>\n

\u00bb <\/strong>7174 Melrose Ave., Fairfax, barbenjamin.com<\/a><\/p>\n

\"CasaCasa Dani moves into Westfield Century City.Credit: Jakob Layman<\/p>\n

4. Katsuya and Casa Dani<\/strong>
Sam Nazarian\u2019s SBE is expanding its culinary empire at Westfield Century City. Casa Dani comes from three-Michelin-starred Spanish chef Dani Garcia, who\u2019ll be serving colorful paellas and Mediterranean classics, like Iberico ham croquetas and seafood pasta. The 17,000-square-foot space designed by David Rockwell also includes an adjacent Katsuya \u2014 the fourth L.A. outpost of chef Katsuya Uechi\u2019s beloved sushi brand \u2014 and a trio of bars, including an open-air Katsuya Beer Garden.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00bb <\/strong>10250 Santa Monica Blvd. #1799, Century City, sbe.com<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Pasjoli\"Credit: Wonho Frank Lee<\/p>\n

5. Pasjoli<\/strong><\/p>\n

Inspired by the popularity of the bar offerings, Michelin-starred chef Dave Beran decided to transform his nearly six-year-old elevated French restaurant into a more casual neighborhood bistro. The approachable \u00e0 la carte menu served at the bar and in the dining room includes new comfort dishes like French onion souplette and steak frites. His signature pressed duck \u2014 prepared tableside on a rolling cart \u2014 will still be available, and an expanded beverage program enables guests to design bespoke cocktails.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00bb <\/strong>2732 Main St., Santa Monica, pasjoli.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The season\u2019s hottest new openings and pop-ups, from Bar Benjamin to Moody Tongue Sushi, have equally important cocktail…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":177525,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,100667,100668,100669,2961,224,5337,100670],"class_list":{"0":"post-177524","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-evan-funke","11":"tag-four-seasons-hotel-beverly-hills","12":"tag-katsuya","13":"tag-la","14":"tag-los-angeles","15":"tag-losangeles","16":"tag-pasjoli"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115096140400251225","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}