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News for Restaurants in Los Angeles

Gayot
April 2012

Celebrity chef Jet Tila is partner and food and beverage director at Santa Monica’s new nightlife venue The Charleston. The lounge-style space sports 1930′s décor and features live entertainment nightly from burlesque to bands, DJs, and dueling pianos. The culinary scene spotlights pop-up restaurants with special menus from guest chefs and Tila himself. From the regular menu, expect small plates of haute American comfort food like bacon-wrapped dates; short rib tacos; flatbread with Nueske’s bacon, quail egg and smoked cheese; smoked cheese; and orange-buttermilk panna cotta. Specialty cocktails range from classic Sazeracs to the Cucumber Cooler and Poison Rose. Dinner nightly.

Chef Jet reveals plans for the Charleston

Chef Jet reveals plans for the CharlestonRecently, as Chef Jet was about to head out his post at Wazuzu in Las Vegas, he told Las Vegas Weekly his plans for the upcoming menu at the Charleston. What’s on the menu? A lot. Besides his take on American comfort food, he plans a series of pop-ups featuring special menus from himself and guest chefs like Evan Kleiman. In addition, look for a ‘resident chef’ program featuring guest chefs to come in and create special menus for a select period of time. The results should deliver some of the most ambitious food to ever hit Southern California. Look for it to start hitting the Charleston come the middle of March.