{"id":671309,"date":"2026-03-21T10:51:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T10:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/671309\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T10:51:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T10:51:12","slug":"phil-rosenthal-and-nancy-silverton-on-max-helens-their-new-la-diner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/671309\/","title":{"rendered":"Phil Rosenthal and Nancy Silverton on Max & Helen\u2019s, Their New LA Diner"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s another sunny weekday on Larchmont Avenue in Los Angeles<\/a>, and at noon, the estimated wait time for a table at the new diner on the block is at least an hour. Welcome to Max & Helen\u2019s, the very happening and very small 40-seat hot spot from the TV producer and host Philip \u201cPhil\u201d Rosenthal, who created Everybody Loves Raymond and Somebody Feed Phil, and the legendary restaurateur Nancy Silverton<\/a>, the force behind Osteria Mozza and Campanile. It\u2019s a family affair: the diner is named after Rosenthal\u2019s parents, and his daughter, Lily, runs operations with her husband, Mason Royal.<\/p>\n

If they were making a movie about the place, the quotable line might be \u201cIf you build it, they will come \u2026 and wait.\u201d That holds true for everyone from Steven Spielberg to Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet<\/a> to the city\u2019s mayor, Karen Bass. I wanted to find out why, so over matzo-ball soup and a giant sourdough waffle smothered in maple butter, I asked Rosenthal and Silverton a few questions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s another sunny weekday on Larchmont Avenue in Los Angeles, and at noon, the estimated wait time for…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":671310,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5123],"tags":[236931,1582,276,283325,283326,283327,283328,283329,2961,283330,283331,224,283332,182461,283333,283334,66102,5337,114267,283335,251602,283336,283337,171291,283338,283339,283340,283341,283342,223554,283343,12258,283345,283346,283347,283344,283348,283349],"class_list":["post-671309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-best-waffles-los-angeles","tag-ca","tag-california","tag-celebrity-chefs-los-angeles","tag-celebrity-restaurant-los-angeles","tag-david-t-friendly","tag-egg-cream","tag-jewish-diner-los-angeles","tag-la","tag-larchmont-avenue-dining","tag-larchmont-avenue-restaurant","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-breakfast-spots","tag-los-angeles-diner","tag-los-angeles-diner-opening","tag-los-angeles-food-scene","tag-los-angeles-restaurants","tag-losangeles","tag-matzo-ball-soup","tag-matzo-ball-soup-los-angeles","tag-max-helens","tag-max-helens-los-angeles","tag-maxs-fluffy-eggs","tag-nancy-silverton","tag-nancy-silverton-cooking","tag-nancy-silverton-diner","tag-nancy-silverton-interview","tag-new-california-diner","tag-new-la-restaurants","tag-osteria-mozza","tag-patty-melt","tag-phil-rosenthal","tag-phil-rosenthal-interview","tag-phil-rosenthal-nancy-silverton-collaboration","tag-phil-rosenthal-restaurant","tag-philip-rosenthal-food","tag-somebody-feed-phil","tag-sourdough-waffle"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671309","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=671309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/671310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}