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8 life-affirming restaurants we’re dying to try

Wolfgang Puck’s triumphant return to West Hollywood, Chef Julian Medina’s Mexican memories come to life in Greenwich Village, an Instagrammable matcha-focused café in Chicago, Michael and Kwini Reed’s verdant greenhouse/restaurant in Anaheim and more

Tara Fitzpatrick, Senior Editor

April 7, 2021

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The cycles of restaurant life must continue. How do we know? Well, Wolfgang Puck is back in West Hollywood, for one.

At Merois, in the mixed-use Pendry West Hollywood on Sunset Strip, he’s dreamed up a menu with crispy scale whole black sea bass and Japanese A5 New York strip, along with vegan sushi, squid noodles of thin calamari in a Thai basil scented ginger-garlic clam broth to name a few things.

And Ospero is Puck’s Euro-casual café in the Pendry, right on the corner of Sunset Boulevard and Olive Drive. An all-day menu includes classic salads, handmade pastas, vegan dishes and those famous Wolfgang Puck housemade gourmet pizzas that started it all for him in California way back when.

Other new restaurants piquing our interest — and our desire to once again travel — include New Belgium Brewing, the craft beer giant’s first restaurant, led by husband-and-wife duo Chefs Laura and Sayat Ozyilmaz; a “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea” experience at the Nautilus Pier 4 in Boston; husband-and-wife duo Michael and Kwini Reed’s new Poppy & Seed, an airy greenhouse restaurant; James Beard Award winning Chef Christopher Gross’ Christopher’s at the Wrigley Mansion and a few more.

About the Author

Tara Fitzpatrick

Senior Editor, Informa Restaurant & Food Group

Tara Fitzpatrick is Food Management’s senior editor and a contributor to Restaurant Hospitality and Nation’s Restaurant News, creating editorial content for digital, print and events. Tara holds a bachelor of science degree from the School of Journalism and Mass Communications at Kent State University. Before joining Food Management in 2008, Tara was associate editor at National Association of College Stores in Oberlin, Ohio. Prior to that, Tara worked as a newspaper reporter in her hometown of Lorain, Ohio, where she lives now. Tara is a fan of food history, legends, lore, ghost stories, urban farming and old cookbooks. 

Tara Fitzpatrick’s areas of expertise include the onsite foodservice industry (K-12 schools, colleges and universities, healthcare and B&I), menu trends, sustainability in foodservice, senior dining, farm-to-table and innovation.

Tara Fitzpatrick is a frequent webinar and podcast host and has served on the board of directors for IFEC (International Food Editors Consortium).

Tara Fitzpatrick’s experience:

Senior Editor, Food Management (Feb 2008-present)

Associate Editor, National Association of College Stores (2005-2008)

Reporter, The Morning Journal (2002-2005)

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