Westside Dining Scene October 21, 2021
By Dolores Quintana
Esteemed chef Alice Waters’s upcoming Westwood restaurant’s and the name has been announced. This restaurant will be located in the Hammer Museum in Westwood at 10899 Wilshire Blvd , the first restaurant waters since she opened since Cafe Fanny in 1984. The restaurant’s name was revealed by the Hammer Museum’s website as Lulu. Waters will be teaming up with her associate, Chef David Tanis, from Chez Panisse, where they worked together for 25 years. As with her other restaurants, and in line with Waters’ longtime food philosophy, the restaurant will focus on local and sustainable ingredients and will “model a better world through food” according to the description on the Hammer Museum’s website which also adds that “The foundation of the restaurant’s mission is to procure directly from small, nearby farms practicing regenerative organic agriculture, which results in wholesome, delicious food grown using methods that combat the climate crisis.”
