From the restaurant's website:
"Morroccan-born chef Simon Elmaleh started his career at the age of 14 as a chef helper with Club Med. Two years later he joined a five-star passenger liner as an assistant chef and worked for them for 17 years. ... Simon's Mediterranean and five-star culinary background gives his restaurant the expertise of how to utilize the unique flavors of the Mediterranean culture with a five-star flare."
Beer and wine available. Serving lunch Tue-Fri, dinner Tue-Sun. "The cafe inside is the precise spiritual opposite of the Los Angeles
freeway system: tiny, dim, gentle and utterly welcoming. There are few
tables, and the decorations are spare, but chef-owner Simon Elmaleh is
almost always in the front - greeting new guests, taking orders,
delivering tagines to tables."
- Thi Nguyen, Los Angeles Times, Jan 28, 2009
ADDRESS
4515 Sepulveda Blvd,
Sherman Oaks, CA 91403
DESCRIPTION
From the restaurant's website:
"Morroccan-born chef Simon Elmaleh started his career at the age of 14 as a chef helper with Club Med. Two years later he joined a five-star passenger liner as an assistant chef and worked for them for 17 years. ... Simon's Mediterranean and five-star culinary background gives his restaurant the expertise of how to utilize the unique flavors of the Mediterranean culture with a five-star flare."
Beer and wine available. Serving lunch Tue-Fri, dinner Tue-Sun.
"The cafe inside is the precise spiritual opposite of the Los Angeles
freeway system: tiny, dim, gentle and utterly welcoming. There are few
tables, and the decorations are spare, but chef-owner Simon Elmaleh is
almost always in the front - greeting new guests, taking orders,
delivering tagines to tables."
- Thi Nguyen, Los Angeles Times, Jan 28, 2009