{"id":219614,"date":"2026-05-04T19:18:41","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T19:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/219614\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T19:18:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T19:18:41","slug":"a-chic-french-bistro-expands-to-manhattan-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/219614\/","title":{"rendered":"A Chic French Bistro Expands to Manhattan Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph n2hx75i _1knl15h1 _1knl15h0 cej01i1\">Coucou, <a href=\"https:\/\/la.eater.com\/2023\/3\/14\/23639911\/coucou-restaurant-bar-opening-flip-venice-beachs-french-bistro-cocktails\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a sleek neighborhood French bistro<\/a>, just expanded with a new outpost in tony Manhattan Beach, housed in the former Nando Trattoria space. The restaurant from Jesse and Hayley Feldman first opened in Venice in 2023, followed by a location in West Hollywood in 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph n2hx75i _1knl15h1 _1knl15h0 cej01i1\">Coucou\u2019s Manhattan Beach location serves the same menu as the others, with a lineup of French-California favorites like market crudites with olive tapenade, the Burger Americaine blanketed in a cognac sauce, and steak frites paired with garlic jus. The knife-and-fork L\u2019Haute Dog also makes an appearance, alongside mussels mariniere with coconut milk and vadoudan, gnocchi Parisienne in a basil-comte pesto, and a soft serve sundae encased in a hard chocolate shell. A daily apero hour will run from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. with discounted drinks and snacks such as pommes frites, zucchini beignets, and steak tartare. Reservations for Coucou Manhattan Beach can be <a href=\"https:\/\/resy.com\/cities\/manhattan-beach-ca\/venues\/coucou-manhattan-beach\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">made on Resy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Ggiata expands to Echo Park<\/p>\n<p>Que Viva El Pulque! launch party at Komal<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph n2hx75i _1knl15h1 _1knl15h0 cej01i1\">Komal will celebrate the debut of Juan Escalona\u2019s Que Viva El Pulque!, a new book focusing on the indigenous Mexican liquor, on May 5. At the event, chef F\u00e1tima Ju\u00e1rez will be in conversation with Escalona about the book and plans to prepare a few bites for the crowd using pulque. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DXiNL9diJXB\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">event is free to attend<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Mother\u2019s Day cakes from Santa Canela<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph n2hx75i _1knl15h1 _1knl15h0 cej01i1\">Highland Park bakery Santa Canela is offering pre-orders on flowers and sweets for Mother\u2019s Day. This year, strawberry chiffon cake, a pastry box with Santa Canela favorites, and a bouquet will be available to order until May 8. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.santacanela.com\/store\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pre-order directly through Santa Canela<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Venice\u2019s Abbot Kinney continues to grow<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Coucou, a sleek neighborhood French bistro, just expanded with a new outpost in tony Manhattan Beach, housed in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":219615,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[2219,86498,75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-219614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-intel","tag-la-restaurant-openings","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}