The Polo Lounge
The Beverly Hills Hotel
9641 Sunset Blvd. (Rodeo Dr.) 
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Beverly Hills, CA 90210
310-887-2777 | Make Restaurant Reservations
Cuisine
Open
Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner daily, Brunch Sun.Features
- Heart-healthy dishes
- Romantic setting
- Private room(s)
- Full bar
- Reservations suggested
- Live Jazz Sun. Brunch
- Outdoor dining
- Valet parking
- Dressy casual
Wine
Great Wine List* Click here for rating key
 Since its 1941 opening, The Polo Lounge has been a favorite celebrity dining destination, and is probably the only restaurant in Beverly Hills that has earned so many glamorous adjectives for so long: legendary, elegant, classic and stylish. The Pink Lady’s restaurant has welcomed the very famous and powerful, the famous and less famous at the bar, in the gorgeous patio flowered in pink that illustrates the hotel’s nickname, or in the dining room for good, better, and sometimes not as good meals. But now, with chef Alex Chen in the kitchen, The Polo Lounge lives up to the reputation of The Beverly Hills Hotel and its owner, The Dorchester Group. There are some old timers on the menu like the tortilla soup and the Caesar salad, but the talent of Chen is really reflected in the Santa Barbara prawn served with lobster mushrooms and braised young leeks; or the caramelized foie gras on a French toast brioche, accompanied with a poached white peach in a vanilla verjus gastrique. We also suggest starting dinner with the smoked salmon and its light potato blini, paired with American caviar. The turbot is flown in from France and garnished with a flavorful bouillabaisse and saffron potatoes. Should you break the bank for the Wagyu beef, the real one from the island of Kyushu, known as “the finest beef in the world?” We are inclined to say yes. Chen definitively knows to master it, with tiny Japanese mushrooms, creamed sweet corn on a parsley essence with truffled red wine sauce around the plate. After such a dinner, cheese is a must, served with cherries and a delicious homemade crunchy nut bread. The sweets, prepared by pastry chef Jean-François Suteau, are another delightful part of the experience. His delicate and precise work is illustrated in the almond sponge cake topped with a very light white chocolate mousse, or the milk sorbet colored with a string of red sugar, fresh strawberries and a long caramelized puffed pastry cookie (“allumette”). The New World occupies a very large part of the twenty-eight-page wine list, which features many verticals, but they are not for the cost-conscious. |
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