New Restaurant in Fashion District
There's a new watering hole in downtown L.A.'s Fashion District.
The wedge of a building at 840 S. Spring St. that used to house Angelique Cafe, an icon for so many years here, was bought by Lime Restaurant Holdings. The company has turned the cafe into The Parish, a gastropub that opened July 27.
Right now, the eatery is only open for dinner, but down the road lunch will be served. I'm sure many people watched the slow but sure renovation that was taking place to transform the cafe from an informal south of France-style restaurant to a sleek pub whose menu seems like a cross between French country colliding with American country.
On the menu is chicken-liver mousse, celery-root mash, a poutine of crispy pork shoulder and wood-grilled bone marrow. That's for the Euro crowd. For the down-home people who like their burgers well-done, there is grilled ribeye, meat pie and fried chicken.
The force behind the kitchen is chef Casey Lane, who was a semifinalist in the rising-star chef category at the James Beard Awards.
Lime Restaurant Holdings, which also operates The Tasting Kitchen and Wabi Sabi in the Venice area of Los Angeles, bought the building that houses The Parish for $2.8 million.
