Worth flagging that a redevelopment of that entire block is currently going through approvals to become residential so Oy Bar’s days are likely numbered as well.
The other night we were told that they had just signed a year’s extension on their lease, but nothing definite after that.
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I was at HLAY a few months ago (no photos). It was packed but this was a Saturday. A couple dishes were really delicious and a couple dishes were fine, but most importantly it was a really good time. Sad.
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And??? Inquiring minds. Do you need to go OOE?
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Oh yes! I posted in another thread.
We did almost OOE - replaced the fish with one of the supplements because my wife wasn’t eating fish when she was pregs (couldn’t stand the smell but we’re back now baby)
It was everything I wanted, the vibe and wine were great the price was a steal and the food was delicious
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“It was not sustainable,” she said, sitting in her darkened restaurant. “It just makes a lot of sense that people are kind of throwing in the towel. While the rest of the country and the rest of the world has been incrementally coming back, L.A. has gone backward.”
“It is a crisis,” said Ms. Styne who, with Ms. Goin, has been a leader in farm-to-table cooking here since they opened Lucques in 1998. “I don’t think the L.A. restaurant scene has ever experienced what it is experiencing in this moment. We’ve been in this lingering period of decline.”
“There are always restaurants closing and restaurants opening.” said Chris Thornberg, a founding partner of Beacon Economics, a consulting firm in Los Angeles. “The net result here is when you look at the data it’s not quite as end of the world as a lot of these folks are suggesting.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/dining/los-angeles-restaurants-closings.html
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One odd thing about that article was mentioning Animal, which closed two years ago. Also, Antico Nuovo isn’t downtown, not sure why Colby was talking about it.