Craig Strong Staying on at Langham, Changes Planned for Dining Room and Terrace Restaurants

Big news from the Langham Hotel (formerly Ritz-Carlton) in Pasadena. First and foremost, Craig Strong will stay on as chef de cuisine for The Dining Room, which recently got a Michelin star, made LA mag's Top 75 and gets generally high marks all around. According to hotel reps, the restaurant decor will finally get a much-needed update---it's fine now, comfortable, just a little staid---and there's a new sommelier. Additionally, the poolside Terrace restaurant will become a French brasserie but will continue breakfast, lunch, dinner and the Sunday champagne brunch. Plans and budgeting are still being worked out, so these changes probably won't even start until late fall, to be finished sometime in 2009.
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