2. Cronut creator bakes up dinner concept
Upstairs from Dominique Ansel’s Los Angeles bakery (famous for churning out that doughnut-croissant hybrid) is his new full-service concept, 189. The concept’s dinner menu is described as traditional French married with California ingredients, and it includes a shareable plum sauce-glazed steak, crispy confit duck leg, a riff on clam chowder with clams and tortellini and, of course, desserts. Weekend brunch is served family-style, sans menus, with dim sum-like service.