Nearly a decade after first opening in Palm Springs, award-winning Workshop Kitchen & Bar is opening its first Los Angeles location in Fairfax.
The new location is expected to open sometime in Spring 2022. Owner/chef Michael Beckman tells What Now Los Angeles, although they are already on the hunt for executive staff, they are more than a month away from opening. In 2012, he and chef Joe Mourani partnered with New York-based architect and artist Michel Abboud to create a “temple of modernist concrete” in the Palm Springs Design District. Now, the duo is getting ready to finally open the highly-anticipated Los Angeles location almost ten years later.
Together, Beckman and Mourani created a fine-dining restaurant with a market-driven menu of seasonal food highlights harvested from local farms. The result, a repurposing of the 1926 historic El Paseo building, caught the attention of many critics both for its food and concrete design. A year after its debut, the London-based Restaurant & Bar Design Awards named Workshop “Best Design for the Americas” followed by an “Outstanding Restaurant Design, 76 Seats & Over” win in 2015 by the James Beard Foundation.
When the new Los Angeles restaurant opens, customers can expect inventive new American eats and seasonal craft cocktails. Some highlights from the Palm Springs location include duck fat fries, shrimp and grits, oxtail truffle burger, and an array of sweets. There’s no official word of if Abboud will be in charge of the architecture of this new location, but expect a high level of elegance.
