Lucques Restaurant Review

8474 Melrose Ave. (La Cienega Blvd.) Send to Phone

Chef Suzanne Goin's inventive rustic Mediterranean cuisine is offered in an idyllic setting.

Lucques Restaurant is one of our 2012 | Top 10 LA California Cuisine Restaurants | • We got the scoop! Find out what President Barack Obama had for dinner when he went to Tavern restaurant on April 21st, 2011, Lucques's sister restaurant. Read GAYOT.com's blog.
• For details on the dinner served by Lucques chef Suzanne Goin at the 2011 SAG awards, read GAYOT.com's blog.

Cuisine

Open

Lunch Tues.-Sat., Dinner nightly

Features

Heart-healthy dishes
Romantic setting
Private room(s)
Full bar
Reservations suggested
Outdoor dining
Valet parking
Casual dressy

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Dining room at Lucques, West Hollywood, CA

Named after a coveted variety of French olive, Lucques offers inspired rustic Mediterranean cuisine with strong California influences. And it's served in an idyllic setting: the former carriage house---transformed by designer Barbara Barry---of silent film star Harold Lloyd. Dine inside in one of the booths near the fireplace, or outside, on a lovely patio where the walls are covered with climbing vines. Chef Suzanne Goin, who clearly picked up some valuable knowledge working at places like Campanile and Chez Panisse, utilizes a wealth of intriguing vegetables from local farmers markets to produce a contemporary Mediterranean cuisine as clean as the stylish setting. Some representative starters from Goin's regularly-changing menu include veal sweetbreads with grilled cornbread, wild mushrooms and Pedro XimÃ©nez; and fried squash blossoms with Manchego cheese, Marcona almonds and green romesco. Among the entrÃ©es, you may find stuffed Jidori chicken with hand-cut noodles, pancetta, asparagus and morels; braised beef short ribs with horseradish cream; or Alaskan halibut with black rice, sugar snaps, kumquat sambal and carrot-coconut broth. For dessert, consider the buttermilk panna cotta with strawberries and pink grapefruit or a satisfying French cheese plate. You may also experience Goin's work at nearby sister restaurants A.O.C. (where the focus is on small plates) and Tavern, in Brentwood.

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