RESTAURANT ADDRESS

8360 Melrose

West Hollywood, CA

323-651-3886

RESTAURANT STAFF

Chef/Owner: Michael Voltaggio

Chef de Cuisine: Cole Dickinson

Pastry Chef:

Sommelier: Michael Ploetz

GM: Michael Ploetz

OAD HISTORY

First appearance in Top 100.

RESTAURANT REVIEW

After winning Season Six of Top chef (he edged out his brother Bryan, (whose Volt restaurant placed 72 on out Top 100 list) and then being the executive chef at Saam at the Bazaar, (number 14 on our Top 100 list) and the now defunct Dining Room at the Langham, Michael Voltaggio opened this decidedly more casual restaurant in the space that used to house Hamasake. But despite the cocktail lounge vibe, Volatggio is still dishing out the same delicious Modernist food which includes dishes like scallops with tofu, cocoa, black vinaigrette and a rice cracker, ocean trout with chicken dashi, chicken skin, cedar leaf and daikon radish and veal cheek, red curry, coconut rice and Nante carrots baked in salt

Spaghetti made of giant squid and squash, with hazelnut-ink pesto, piment d’espelette
Photo Courtesy of: The Delicious Life curyan