The Mexico City-born chef built an international CV at Enrique Olvera’s esteemed tasting menu restaurant Pujol, and also ...

Here are notable restaurant closures for January. For closures in 2024, click here. Bar Chelou— Ground-breaking Pasadena restaurant Bar Chelou closed on February 16 in the wake of the 2025 ...

Over on the east side of L.A., closer to where the Eaton Fire swept through Altadena claiming lives and homes, the award-winning restaurant Bar Chelou in Pasadena announced it would close.

That night, an eerie mood hung over the tasting-menu spot as lights flickered from the severe wind and guests checked their phones constantly to see the fire spreading through the neighboring L.A.

Describe the mood: Designed by Lovers Unite (of Dunsmore in Glassel Park and Bar Chelou in Pasadena) with 1970s Scandinavian influence down to the cherry wood banquettes and large powder-blue circular ...

That doesn't mean they've saved all of them. Some were deemed unfixable because the owners weren't willing to give up their vision of the bar. And one episode never aired because of that.

Duke’s, the iconic seaside restaurant in Malibu, was one of the few buildings along the city’s storied stretch of Pacific Coast Highway that came through January’s Palisades fire still ...

This list is published weekly with closures since the previous week’s list. Status updates are published in the following week’s list. Source: OC Health Care Agency database.

Updates since last week’s list: BB Lounge at 13135 Brookhurst St., Suite 8, Garden Grove, which was ordered closed Feb. 18 because of a rodent infestation, was allowed to reopen Feb. 27.