At this LA eating hotspot, go Spanish or Japanese as you please

The most recent Sbe Leisure hotspot brings collectively two fully completely different ideas underneath one roof – paella and sushi – on the outside Westfield in Century Metropolis, Los Angeles. After a day of buying or a night movie tour, the connecting areas of Casa Dani by three-Michelin-starred Spanish chef Dani García and Katsuya by grasp sushi chef Katsuya Uechi, designed by David Rockwell of the Rockwell Group, supply a welcome respite with loads of patio views and bar areas.

Wallpaper* dines at Casa Dani and Katsuya Century Metropolis, Los Angeles

The temper: a playground for indoor-outdoor eating and ingesting

The 2 side-by-side eating places function a shocking round bar and an open-air backyard with a terrace overlooking the Beverly and Hollywood Hills – the right view for an olive oil martini with Kastra Elion vodka. ‘Whereas the 2 [connecting] eating places don’t share a design ethos, the outside bar is a transitional connector,’ stated Greg Keffer, accomplice and studio chief on the Rockwell Group. ‘What they do share is the chance for friends to be transported for the night.’

Reverse an open kitchen, the Casa Dani eating room is anchored by a curved, hand-glazed inexperienced tile fire, which serves as the focus of an area full of neutral-toned leather-based banquettes and tables. In the meantime, within the Katsuya area, the design evokes a uncooked, minimalist Japanese aesthetic with a monochrome palette. The eating room contains a pure wooden post-and-beam ceiling, with ribbed wooden particulars on the columns extending all the way down to wooden flooring. Dramatic, mottled metallic bell pendants dangle between the beams, filling the overhead area with sculptural affect.

The meals: The perfect of each worlds

Because the title suggests, Casa Dani gives a home-away-from-home setting that’s not tremendous eating, however a showcase of Spanish tradition by a contemporary Mediterranean lens. Identical to at his New York outpost, García’s meals is rooted in contrasts, textures and temperatures. Whilst you can anticipate comforting paellas – from vegetarian to hen or seafood – and different conventional nods to Andalusian cooking akin to Ibérico ham, García takes issues a step additional with dishes like truffled onion on his tortilla slice, oxtail brioche with ‘bull sauce’, and a tomato tartare. For dessert, García’s burnt Basque cheesecake options an earthy goat’s cheese.

Katsuya Century Metropolis continues its practically 20-year custom of high-quality sushi into a brand new period, including toro tartare with Oscietra caviar and tangy kizami wasabi, alongside A5 wagyu tataki with ‘truffle snow’. The signature baked crab hand rolls, spicy tuna tartare on crispy grilled sushi rice, and yellowtail jalapeño with onion ponzu stay staples – and an order of rock shrimp with ponzu mayo is at all times a should for the desk, accompanied by loads of premium sake.