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Thomas Keller's Bar Bouchon Now Open in Back of Montage Beverly Hills

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December 21, 2009 at 8:47 AM | by | Comments (0)

The restaurants in the Montage Beverly Hills are not too shabby but in the hotel's backyard, two restaurants from revered chef Thomas Keller have opened--Bouchon and the more casual brasserie, Bar Bouchon, making them the place to dine when staying in Beverly Hills.

While the Bouchon restaurant has been open for nearly a month, we hit up Bar Bouchon on Saturday for its very first lunch service. The menu offers mostly small plates at significant prices ($11 and up) and if you're looking for basic comfort food, you might be disappointed. But hello, this is Bouchon after all.

With our dining partner, we ordered two of the specials which were a quiche with leeks and a "flavorful" roquefort cheese and a tuna nicoise sandwich topped with shaved radishes, olives, lemon and eggs. Both were, as expected, scrumpdillyumptious. (What? You don't use that word to describe good food?)

Making it even better was the 77 degrees and sunny weather plus our view of the landscaped gardens that connects to the hotel. There's also some select seating around the bar at Bar Bouchon but we preferred the view.

Perhaps more impressive was that our little brasserie table out on the patio had a prime view of Thomas Keller himself who was sitting at a sunny table, talking with a male friend. We snapped a stalkerazzi style pic of him too. Shhh!

The fancier Bouchon restaurant is fine-dining at Keller's best, who's also the man behind French Laundry in Napa and Per Se in New York. That's open for dinner from 5:30 to 11pm daily while Bar Bouchon is open for lunch from 11:30am to 2:30pm daily.

If you're looking to spend the night at The Montage, room rates currently start at $495 a night. Right now, there's no Bouchon tie-in package which makes sense since it's not a part of the hotel, but we'll keep you posted if The Montage ever takes advantage of their new neighbor.

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