{"id":249688,"date":"2025-09-23T19:22:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T19:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/249688\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T19:22:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T19:22:09","slug":"world-famous-chef-dominique-crenn-is-opening-her-first-restaurant-in-l-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/249688\/","title":{"rendered":"World Famous Chef Dominique Crenn is opening her first restaurant in L.A."},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s not every day that a Michelin-recognized, world-renowned chef like San Francisco\u2019s Dominique Crenn opens a restaurant in Los Angeles\u2014and with Dior, no less. In a surprise Sunday morning news post on\u00a0WWD<\/a>, the international luxury fashion house announced plans to open a Beverly Hills rooftop restaurant this fall in partnership with Crenn, who made history in 2018 as the first female chef in the United States to earn three Michelin stars<\/a> for her eponymous San Francisco restaurant, Atelier Crenn<\/a>. Many may also be acquainted with the French American\u2019s work through season two of Netflix\u2019s Chef\u2019s Table or the on-screen culinary wizardry featured in\u00a0The Menu (2022),\u00a0a\u00a0horror-comedy satirizing the absurdities of fine dining.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The culinary concept, Monsieur Dior, will sit on the third floor of Dior\u2019s sprawling 323 North Rodeo Drive flagship, mere steps away from\u00a0Gucci, which also features a chef-affiliated terrace restaurant, Gucci Osteria<\/a> by Massimo Bottura. Technically, the Beverly Hills rooftop concept is Dior\u2019s second Crenn-affiliated project. The first is Cafe Dior, which opened in Dallas last February. Unlike Cafe Dior, however, Monsieur Dior will offer dinner as well as lunch and light bites\u2014the first full-service Dior restaurant in the United States. Per WWD, the 105-seat restaurant will be divided between a lounge\/bar area and\u00a0an indoor-outdoor\u00a0dining room.<\/p>\n

Like Gucci Osteria (which I have visited and found to be merely okay), Monsieur Dior will offer affluent tourist-friendly fare plated on luxury branded serveware. While menu pricing is still to be determined, diners can expect visually arresting \u00e0 la carte dishes that draw inspiration from the red carpet and Old Hollywood. This, too, is not unlike the desserts available at Pret-a-Portea, a red carpet-inspired afternoon tea service offered at the Maybourne Beverly Hills a few blocks over. WWD reports on a few confirmed dishes, including a\u00a0tuna tartare with purple yam chips and cr\u00e8me fraiche; black truffle agnolotti with mushroom consomm\u00e9; guinea hen with maitake mushroom and turnip; and ribeye cap with\u00a0cauliflower pur\u00e9e and black truffle.<\/p>\n

For dessert\u2014arguably, what Atelier Crenn is best known for\u2014the chef is planning on a coconut cream creation with raspberries and pistachio that draws inspiration from Jean Seberg in Jean-Luc Godard\u2019s Breathless, as well as a devil\u2019s food cake tribute to Princess Diana carrying a Lady Dior bag.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat is beautiful about Beverly Hills is I could focus also on the Hollywood era,\u201d Crenn told WWD. \u201cThose dresses really speak to me\u2014but also, the energy of the actresses when they were wearing Christian Dior. I wanted to tell a story through the dishes that reflect the story, perhaps, of Monsieur Dior when he dresses those women.\u201d<\/p>\n

With Crenn\u2019s name recognition as a culinary superstar and the fact Monsieur Dior is her first venture into Los Angeles, reservations are likely to be quite difficult to snag, at least in the beginning. Personally, I’ll be taking a wait-and-see approach once Monsieur Dior finally opens its doors; no matter the name attached, brand-new restaurants usually need a minute to iron out the invariable kinks in service and operation. But if you\u2019re jonesing for a taste of Crenn\u2019s cooking (albeit a tourist-friendly, Dior-branded version), the Rodeo Drive restaurant will be at your restaurant in no time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s not every day that a Michelin-recognized, world-renowned chef like San Francisco\u2019s Dominique Crenn opens a restaurant in…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":249689,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,10633,2961,224,5337,10634,988],"class_list":{"0":"post-249688","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-categories-restaurants","11":"tag-la","12":"tag-los-angeles","13":"tag-losangeles","14":"tag-news-eating","15":"tag-restaurants"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115255243409899719","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249688","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=249688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}