{"id":288799,"date":"2026-04-27T23:03:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T23:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/288799\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T23:03:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T23:03:09","slug":"the-team-behind-santa-monicas-muse-set-their-sights-on-west-hollywood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/288799\/","title":{"rendered":"The Team Behind Santa Monica\u2019s Muse Set Their Sights on West Hollywood"},"content":{"rendered":"

The team behind Santa Monica fine dining destination Muse<\/a> will open a new restaurant in West Hollywood in summer 2027 in the former Olivetta space on Melrose Avenue. The new project, which will be a new restaurant rather than a second location of Muse, will see chef-owner Fardad Khayami\u2019s brother, Nikdad, at the helm of a pastry program, plus day-to-night operations. The forthcoming restaurant will focus on Proven\u00e7al cooking and local sourcing and hopes to operate as a bakery during the day and a dinner destination in the evening.<\/p>\n

Fardad Khayami launched Muse as a dorm room dinner party with college roommate David Gelland while attending the University of Southern California. Initially called Museum, the pop-up garnered a thousands-long waitlist before finding a permanent home in the former Mason Supper Club space in Santa Monica. Fardad Khayami, who is self-trained, opened Muse\u2019s Santa Monica location in August 2024. The evolving menu offers a distinctly California-French bent with dishes like delicata squash crowned by toasted pistachios and vadouvan, plus branzino paired with tarragon pistou and beurre blanc.<\/p>\n

Tip your hat to the Arby\u2019s sign at Stagecoach<\/p>\n

Stolpman Wines at Little Dom\u2019s<\/p>\n

Central Coast winery Stolpman Vineyards will join Santa Barbara seafood spot Little Dom\u2019s for a winemaker dinner on April 29. The $125 ticket includes a four-course meal paired with wines from Stolpman. Reserve a seat on Resy<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Porta Via finds a new Beverly Hills home<\/p>\n

California bistro Porta Via will reopen in Beverly Hills this summer at the former site of Nusr-Et. Its original Beverly Hills home, just a few blocks away from its new location, was destroyed in a fire in late 2025. Porta Via\u2019s Pacific Palisades location, which has been closed since the Palisades Fire<\/a>, has been slated to reopen in August 2026.<\/p>\n

Los Angeles pop-ups on film<\/p>\n

Eater contributor Lynn Q. Yu<\/a> has produced a short documentary film on pop-ups in Los Angeles that features operators like A\u2019s Barbecue and Lobsterdamus, as well as businesses that crop up at markets such as Smorgasburg, 626 Night Market, and the Salvadoran\/Guatemalan corridor on Vermont Avenue. Watch the film on YouTube<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The team behind Santa Monica fine dining destination Muse will open a new restaurant in West Hollywood in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288800,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[1698,5894,48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-288799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-coming-attractions","tag-intel","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288799","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=288799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}