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Is The Bazaar by Jose Andres The Perfect Storm of Restaurants?

Filed under: Dining

Is The Bazaar by José Andrés in the SLS Hotel in Beverly Hills the future of restaurants? An article in the Wall Street Journal takes a long analytical look at the restaurant's appeal. The article breaks down the allure of the restaurant which was also Esquire's restaurant of the year. The trendy bar and restaurant serves a tapas-style menu and caters to a lively bar scene. This along with its trendy hotel location are components that the Wall Street Journal sees as a major key to the spot's success in a time of restaurant failures and slow business. Bazaar has grossed $13 million making it a bright light in SBE Entertainment Group chief executive Sam Nazarian's portfolio of hotels and nightclubs.

Why so popular? Part of it is the Beverly HIlls location, part of it is the celebrity watching factor but it is also the fact that the food is more experience than sustenance. José Andrés serves food with a molecular gastronomy angle making use of liquid nitrogen, spun sugar and other theatrical food displays. As the WSJ article points out, the restaurant combines a bunch of things that are currently trendy and makes them work but whether or not any of these trends will stick around is anyone's guess. The Bazaar is a unique place combining lots of flash with a bit of substance and while the individual components that make it popular can be replicated the magic of this one particular spot likely cannot be.

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Sam Nazarian In Los Angeles, Estate of the Day

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Filed under: Estates, Celebrity Shopping

High up in the hills of Los Angeles in the pricey "Bird Streets" area, nightlife impresario Sam Nazarian has a home he'd like to sell you. The young entrepreneur who is behind SBE Entertainment, celeb-friendly clubs like Hyde and the new SLS Hotel in Los Angeles has a glittering three-bedroom white box perched on a hill for perfect views all the way to the ocean. The home has ample party space with the media room and bar lounge opening out to an exterior resort-style area with an outdoor kitchen, infinity pool and spa and a cozy nook with a fire pit that could be the modern version of the Playboy mansion's infamous grotto, a perfect setting for a sudden intimacy. The home's entry has a glass floor and the clerestory windows offer lots of light. You may have noticed this home in a few episodes of "Entourage." It seems a perfect setting for that particular Hollywood fable. The Real Estalker Mama refers to the $18.95 million list price as eye-popping and I have to agree, it seems to be priced too high by a few million dollars.

Gallery: Sam Nazarian in the Hills

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New Renderings of SLS Beverly Hills Hotel

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Filed under: Luxury Travel & Hotels

The SLS Hotels brand is scheduled to debut this fall with the opening of the much anticipated SLS Beverly Hills in Los Angeles, and although we'll have to wait a bit to see the real thing we have some computer generated photos to get a sneak peak a couple months early. Big names like Phillip Starck, José Andres, and Moss are associated with the project which is said to offer "an evolved luxury hospitality experience for today's evolved traveler." The SLS Beverly Hills (and all the SLS hotels to follow) will be managed as part of The Luxury Collection Hotels & Resorts under Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc.

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Gallery: The New SLS Beverly Hills