Spanish Restaurant Casa Dani Opens in June 2025 in Century Metropolis

Casa Dani from chef Dani García is on monitor to lastly debut contained in the Westfield Century Metropolis in June 2025 after a three-year construct.

Initially opened inside New York Metropolis’s Residents meals corridor in Midtown West in December 2021, Casa Dani earned a Michelin star however quietly closed earlier this 12 months. The closure got here as a result of dissolution of the partnership between SBE, its working accomplice Legends, and Brookfield Properties, the meals corridor’s landlord. Alongside Casa Dani in Century Metropolis, Los Angeles’s personal Katsuya will open a flagship restaurant with a revitalized 20-year-anniversary menu and add to the Westfield mall’s ever-improving slate of eating choices that features the soon-to-debut Tremendous Peach from chef David Chang.

Dani García is one in every of Spain’s most acclaimed tremendous eating cooks, with two-Michelin-starred Smoked Room in Madrid and its Michelin-starred sibling in Dubai. The chef additionally held three Michelin stars at his eponymous restaurant in Marbella’s luxe Puente Romano resort, although it closed in 2019. Whereas Spanish delicacies had a scorching second in Los Angeles in 2023, its reputation has waned considerably with the closures of Gasolina Cafe, Soulmate, Bar Moruno, Saso, Flor y Solera, and Cafe Basque. Nonetheless, newer openings like Somni, Bar Siesta, Teléferic, and Xuntos have balanced out these closures, and the incoming Bazaar Meat in Downtown will present one other jolt to the delicacies’s presence in Los Angeles. Bazaar Meat is allegedly constructed and able to open contained in the Conrad resort, however its father or mother firm, José Andrés Group, is ready for a extra ideally suited financial state of affairs within the central enterprise district.

Assuming it’ll mirror its New York menu, the Casa Dani in Los Angeles ought to distill García’s fashionable takes on Spanish fare, like croquetas de jamón ibérico, Andalusian-style tuna preparations, paella, and grilled proteins like complete turbot and ibérico pork loin. Katsuya’s Japanese lounge menu of sushi, rolls, and izakaya-inflected dishes will collect a few of chef Katsuya Uechi’s best hits from over the previous 20 years. Each will add eating classes that at present don’t exist contained in the Westfield Century Metropolis.

SBE, a longtime Los Angeles-based hospitality and nightlife operator, will deal with operations for the previous monster-sized Rock Sugar area that faces Santa Monica Boulevard. Spanning 17,000 sq. ft collectively, the eating places will boast a backyard patio, atrium arrival, and Vegas Strip-style terrace overlooking the Hollywood Hills. Designed by David Rockwell, each eating places will match about 400 diners in complete.

Previously 12 months alone, Westfield Century Metropolis has had a major transformation as a Westside eating vacation spot, including South Korean doughnut store Cafe Knotted, influencer Emma Chamberlain’s espresso store, Cedric the Entertainer and Anthony Anderson’s AC Barbeque, and widespread China-based teahouse Chagee.

Jakob N. Layman