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( 01 ) — Philosophy
Wednesday, 6:12 PM
First seating
07
Courses tonight
34
Seats in the room
02
Seatings, 5:30 & 8:30
180
Minutes at the table
Critic’s Pick — MMXXV
“Unshowy, precise, and quietly generous.”
— The Evening Ledger
( 03 ) — The Room
A space built
for slowness.
Blackened oak, hand-troweled plaster, beeswax and brass. Nothing in the room is louder than the food — or the person across from you.
I. The long table
Seats 14
II. The dining room
34 covers
III. The bar
Walk-ins only
IV. Beeswax & brass
Nightly
V. The corner booth
Ask nicely
( 04 ) — The Chef
Julien
Castel
Julien cooked at Atelier Verre in Paris and ran the pass at Hollow Oak in New York before moving west in 2019. He shops the Santa Monica market on Wednesdays, writes the menu by hand on Thursdays, and refuses to plate with tweezers.
“Simplicity — of the will-take-a-lifetime kind.”
Atelier Verre, Paris
Hollow Oak, NYC
Maren, LA
Julien Castel
Chef & Owner
At the pass, Tuesday prep
( 05 ) — Private Dining
A room of your own.
Behind the velvet curtain: one vaulted room, one walnut table, twelve chairs. Bring the people you’d cancel anything for.
Élodie Marchand
Wine Director
Two hundred-odd bottles, small growers, old-world lean. Élodie pours what she loves and nothing she doesn’t.
( 06 ) — The Cellar
The short list,
tonight.
By the glass
Chenin ‘Les Aubépines’
Savennières
17
Grüner Veltliner, Weingut Halden
Kamptal
15
Pinot Noir, Calder Ridge
Sta. Rita Hills
19
Bottles
Trousseau, Clos Bellefond
Jura
88
Vermentino, Clos Lumiu
Corsica
74
Nebbiolo, Ca’ Brenna
Alto Piemonte
96
The deep end
Barolo, Cascina Velaro
2004
380
Chambolle-Musigny, Dom. Aubrac
2011
640
( 07 ) — Reservations
The table
is set.
Reservations open on the first of each month, thirty days out. The bar keeps four seats for walk-ins — arrive early, order the olives.
Wed—Sun
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Seatings 5:30 & 8:30
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Parties of 7+, email us