Beethoven Market dining room. | Ashley Randall Photography Cobi’s co-founder Jeremy Adler debuts his stunner Beethoven Market this weekend In 2023, Jeremy Adler bought Beethoven Market, a former Mar Vista grocery staple that served the community for 75 years. The market was less than a mile from his home, and Adler hoped to turn this prominent corner into a breezy day-to-night restaurant and community gathering place.
That journey takes a successful turn as Adler and chef Michael Leonard debut a new iteration of Beethoven Market on the corner of Palms and Beethoven Boulevards on Saturday, March 29, 2025.As a Studio City native, the Cobi’s co-founder leaned into Beethoven Market and Mar Vista’s historic status. Beethoven Market originally opened in 1949 as a corner grocery store that used to have a live butcher.
During demolition and construction, Adler restored the original wood ceiling, steel beams, and even found a meat scale holdover from the original business, which is plastered above the expediting station. It took Leonard — whose first kitchen job out of culinary school in 2009 was at Rustic Canyon during chef Evan Funke’s tenure — months to finalize the menu. Beethoven Market straddles California and Italian cooking with focaccia, crispy artichokes, and citrus salad for starters.
Long before Mar Vista was a Westside suburb, it was a farmland that grew lima beans. The octopus with lima bean, escarole, and preserved Meyer lemon pays homage to its past. The te.
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