{"id":132040,"date":"2026-01-13T20:03:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T20:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/132040\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T20:03:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T20:03:06","slug":"bar-etoile-review-bar-etoile-nails-the-modern-parisian-wine-bistro-in-melrose-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/132040\/","title":{"rendered":"Bar Etoile Review: Bar Etoile Nails the Modern Parisian Wine Bistro in Melrose Hill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph n2hx75i _1knl15h1 _1knl15h0 cej01i1\">Duck into <a href=\"https:\/\/la.eater.com\/venue\/112650\/bar-etoile\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bar Etoile<\/a> along Western Avenue and find a <a href=\"https:\/\/la.eater.com\/2024\/10\/29\/24270417\/bar-etoile-french-restaurant-wine-los-angeles\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">gently lit wood-paneled dining room that buzzes<\/a>, starting from a zinc counter encircling the center of the room. To the sides, packed tables toast to zingy glasses of Melon de Bourgogne while taking careful spoonfuls of Alpine-style cheese tarts fashioned into savory pie slices. Which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eater.com\/maps\/best-restaurants-paris-france\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Parisian arrondissement<\/a> is this? Oh, it\u2019s Melrose Hill, a <a href=\"https:\/\/la.eater.com\/2024\/1\/23\/24042254\/melrose-hill-los-angeles-neighborhood-new-restaurants-bars-zach-lasry-developer-gentrification\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles neighborhood experiencing increasingly accelerating development<\/a> with the openings of <a href=\"https:\/\/la.eater.com\/restaurant-openings\/294417\/corridor-109-brian-baik-melrose-hill-opening\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Corridor 109<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/la.eater.com\/restaurant-openings\/295295\/chainsaw-cafe-opening-los-angeles-melrose-hill\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chainsaw<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/la.eater.com\/dining-report\/297345\/little-fish-melrose-hill-review\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Little Fish<\/a> in recent months. It\u2019s unclear if neighborhood locals or Angelenos from more far-flung areas are coming here in droves, but the energy is still palpable. Etoile presents a modern French bistro with heavy doses of inventive Los Angeles flair, and it works, though expect the tab to run about $100 a person, give or take a wine glass.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph n2hx75i _1knl15h1 _1knl15h0 cej01i1\">Groups of five or six oenophiles ready to pop open a couple of interesting bottles and fight over the last slices of bluefin tuna swimming in a beet leche de tigre. Date nights with the partner for those who can\u2019t fly over to Paris on a whim.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph n2hx75i _1knl15h1 _1knl15h0 cej01i1\">A few dishes, like the lobster rillette and black cod with pil pil sauce, taste more salt-forward, so ask the server for a good wine to counter the salinity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph n2hx75i _1knl15h1 _1knl15h0 cej01i1 masaseg\">Dine like a Parisian at Bar Etoile, a new French restaurant in Melrose Hill. The restaurant comes from a team of first-time restaurateurs: Jill Bernheime Bernheimer (Domaine LA), Julian Kurland (Native, the Rose), and chef Travis Hayden (Rustic Canyon, Voodoo Vin). Bar Etoile serves a bar menu comprised of small bites like bread and butter and spiced nuts made to pair with a glass of wine or a cocktail, as well as a full menu of larger dishes. Hayden\u2019s dinner menu follows a clear European-inspired throughline with dishes like steak frites, roast chicken, and ricotta gnocchi. \u2014 Rebecca Roland, associate editor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Duck into Bar Etoile along Western Avenue and find a gently lit wood-paneled dining room that buzzes, starting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":132041,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[28829,48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":{"0":"post-132040","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-dining-reports","9":"tag-la","10":"tag-la-headlines","11":"tag-la-news","12":"tag-los-angeles","13":"tag-los-angeles-headlines","14":"tag-los-angeles-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}