{"id":353939,"date":"2026-09-22T21:38:50","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T21:38:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/353939\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T21:38:50","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T21:38:50","slug":"fonzs-returns-to-manhattan-beach-for-5-sold-out-nights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/353939\/","title":{"rendered":"Fonz&#8217;s Returns To Manhattan Beach For 5 Sold-Out Nights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even after Boehle sold his interest, he said former customers continued reaching out to ask whether he would ever bring Fonz&#8217;s back, but rising rents, which were among the reasons he got out of the business in 2017, made the prospect of another permanent restaurant difficult to justify.<\/p>\n<p>A five-night reunion, however, was a different proposition. The idea eventually led to a conversation with chef and restaurateur David Slay, whose <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fetebyslay.com\/location\/fete-bistro-by-slay\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">F\u00eate Bistro<\/a> now occupies the old Fonz&#8217;s address, and when Boehle was asked whether he would come back for five nights, he agreed.<\/p>\n<p> Old Faces, Old Food <\/p>\n<p>Boehle isn&#8217;t promising a perfect replica of Fonz&#8217;s, acknowledging that the kitchen, sauces and staff cannot be exactly as they were years ago, but the idea is to recreate as much as possible of the atmosphere that made the restaurant a gathering place for generations of Manhattan Beach customers.<\/p>\n<p>Former Fonz&#8217;s chef Luis Sandoval will return Wednesday to help show the kitchen how the dishes should look, Boehle said, while a group of longtime former employees will also return during the pop-up, putting some of the familiar faces back inside the restaurant alongside much of its familiar food.<\/p>\n<p>The menu will draw heavily from the old Fonz&#8217;s offerings, including meatloaf, chicken, filet, New York steak and swordfish, along with appetizers and desserts, while F\u00eate will also offer some of its own dishes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Even after Boehle sold his interest, he said former customers continued reaching out to ask whether he would&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":353940,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-353939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","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\/353939","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=353939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}