With a menu created by a Michelin-starred chef and a retro vibe thanks to its location in the renovated 60-year-old mid-century-style City Center hotel, Chef Philip Pretty’s highly anticipated second Long Beach restaurant Olive & Rose opened its doors this month. And the chef, who earned Long Beach’s first Michelin star in 2023 for his seasonal tasting-menu driven restaurant Heritage, says this menu is filled with some of the best dishes he’s ever cooked. “I feel like this is a culmination of the last 20 years of my career.
It’s things I’ve fallen in love with and really liked throughout that process,” said Pretty, who opened the spot with his sister and business partner Lauren Pretty on Oct. 2. Named after the chef’s daughters, the 32-seat minimally decorated restaurant sports soft colors with light wood tables and green bench chairs and overlooks the newly renovated hotel and pool.
While it’s a retro-cool look, all of the attention will be on the menu with food Pretty describes as coming from a neo-bistro menu, meaning its his take on a French bistro with California influences. Michelin-starred chef Philip Pretty at Olive & Rose on Friday, Oct. 4, 2024, on Atlantic Avenue in Long Beach.
(Photo by Howard Freshman, Contributing Photographer) Chefs prepare dishes on Friday evening, Oct. 4, 2024, at Olive & Rose in downtown Long Beach. (Photo by Howard Freshman, Contributing Photographer) Olive & Rose, shown here on Friday, Oct.
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