Dinner Service Commences Tonight at Alice Waters’s Westwood Restaurant Lulu

Lulu — the bastion of California cooking from legendary chefs Alice Waters and David Tanis — begins dinner service tonight after serving only lunch since opening last November on the ground floor courtyard of the Hammer Museum in Westwood. Dinner service will run on Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m., with hours expanding in the coming months.

The soul of Lulu’s menu is impeccably sourced local ingredients prepared with minimal fuss. As such, the a la carte dinner menu will change daily depending on what’s available from nearby regenerative farms and purveyors. For a sense of what’s cooking, diners can anticipate seasonally driven soups (like a yellow carrot soup with ginger cream), salads (like a smoked salmon carpaccio with cherry tomatoes), pastas (like house-made chiocciole with zucchini, squash blossoms, ricotta, basil, and Parmesan), and fish and meat entrees. Tanis’s delightful desserts, like fruit-forward crumbles and sorbets, are not to be missed. Reservations available through Resy.

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