It served one of the country’s most ambitious tasting menus, had diners clamoring for reservations each month, and was the first restaurant for one of Los Angeles’ highest profile celebrity chefs — but next month, Maude is closing after a decade in Beverly Hills, and making room for the Pie Room by Curtis Stone. In a surprise announcement, the chef that former Times critic Jonathan Gold once called “the one food television star whom everybody genuinely likes” said that Maude would close Sept. 28, with a permanent reprisal of his pandemic-era pie shop pop-up taking its place.
Stone said he decided to close Maude to focus on expanding his pie shops and his Hollywood restaurant Gwen. With a new, 6,000-square-foot offsite bakery to help with demand, the chef expects to reopen the Pie Room by Curtis Stone with a bang this fall. “It’s a mixture of emotions,” Stone said.
“My wife said, ‘How are you feeling?’ and I was crying. She said, ‘Why are you crying?’ I said, ‘I don’t know if I’m happy or I’m sad.’ It’s just really emotional but ultimately a good thing.
When I look around in that dining room, every single trinket and every little corner I have a story about.” The Melbourne-born chef and TV personality, who had worked with legendary London chef Marco Pierre White, came to the U.S.
for a food TV show but felt untethered not working in a restaurant. When he became a father, he wanted to raise his children in a house where they would see the.