A second restaurant opens this week directly above one that already has a Michelin star, in the same building, from the same husband-and-wife team, on the same stretch of Pico Boulevard that Beverlywood residents drive past on the way to Trader Joe's. Marée, chef Marcus Jernmark's new French-California bistro, opens its doors on September 9 at 9575 W. Pico Boulevard, one flight up from Lielle, the 42-seat basement restaurant that earned its Michelin star in June. Two kitchens, one address, one operator, and by the end of this week, two very different reasons to park on that block.
The obvious story is the pedigree: a chef who has cooked at Restaurant Frantzén in Stockholm, Restaurant Zén in Singapore, and Per Se in New York is now running two restaurants a staircase apart in a neighborhood better known for kosher delis than tasting menus. The more useful story, if you already live here, is what the two restaurants' hours reveal about how this particular stretch of Pico actually works.
The Basement Earned Its Star First
Lielle opened in the space that used to hold Walter and Margarita Manzke's Bicyclette, and before that, Sotto and Picca. Jernmark has said his first night in Los Angeles four years ago was spent eating at Bicyclette in that same room, which makes the move into the space feel less like a real estate transaction and more like a chef returning to finish a meal.
The room seats 42, tucked underground, with wine-toned leather banquettes running beneath cork-lined, barrel-vaulted ceilings designed to feel like a wine cave. There's no à la carte option. Dinner is a four-course prix fixe at $150 a person, built around ingredients most regulars won't recognize until the server names them: abalone and seaweed from Monterey Abalone Company, cheese from Petaluma's Andante Dairy. Chef de cuisine Matthew Bowden, previously of Providence, runs the kitchen day to day. Jernmark has described the concept as ripping away the white tablecloth and cutting the check average in half compared to what his résumé might suggest, while keeping the sourcing standards that got him three Michelin stars overseas.
Upstairs Opens This Week, and It's a Different Restaurant Entirely
Marée is not Lielle with a shorter menu. It's a 70-seat, daily-open bistro built for the kind of night where you didn't plan four courses in advance. The design, again by Lovers Unite working with Jernmark's wife and creative partner Andrea Jernmark, swaps the subterranean wine-cave mood for something closer to a Parisian café: zinc and copper accents, intentionally weathered walls, vintage mirrors, and Fritz Hansen clam pendant lights hanging over a green onyx marble bar.
The menu moves between California and Paris depending on the season. Early dishes include escargot beignets Jernmark developed after a trip to Kyoto, a prawn cocktail built around Caledonian blue prawns and a house-made cocktail sauce heavy on horseradish, halibut crudo with late-summer citrus, and a hamburger finished over Japanese charcoal that the kitchen is capping at 30 orders a day. Homemade pasta gets made fresh daily, the same as it does downstairs. Jernmark has pointed to San Francisco's Zuni Café as the model he's chasing, telling one interviewer:
"We're creating food that we want to have with us for a long time, food that is not carved out of concepts, just stuff that we like to eat."
Reservations for Marée drop nightly at midnight, opening up the following two weeks. If you're the type who books dinner the same afternoon you want to eat it, that's the one detail worth writing down now.
Why the Clock Matters More Than the Menu
Here's the part that a visitor from outside the neighborhood would miss and a resident should notice. Lielle is open Tuesday through Saturday, 5 to 8:30 p.m. No Sunday. No Monday. No lunch. No late seating. That's an unusual schedule for a restaurant with a Michelin star and a four-course-only format, most fine-dining rooms in Los Angeles build in a Sunday brunch or a late Friday seating to capture weekend demand.
Instead, Lielle's hours land squarely inside the rhythm of the corridor it sits on. Pico-Robertson, the broader commercial strip that Beverlywood borders and feeds into, holds more than thirty certified kosher restaurants and delis within roughly a square mile, alongside multiple synagogues and Chabad centers. Many of those businesses close by Friday afternoon and stay dark through Saturday sundown. A restaurant that opens at 5 and closes at 8:30, five nights a week, with nothing on Sunday or Monday, isn't fighting that pattern. It's sitting inside it.
Marée does the opposite on purpose. It's open every day, 5 to 9:30 p.m., no dark nights, no four-course commitment required. If Lielle is the destination you plan two weeks out, Marée is built to be the place you walk into on a Tuesday because you didn't feel like cooking. Jernmark has said as much directly, describing Marée as a spot that can work "for dinner, a glass of wine before or after dinner at Lielle, or simply as a place to return to again and again." One restaurant respects the block's existing closed days. The other fills in around them.
The Block Already Had a Rhythm Before Either Restaurant Opened
None of this is happening in a vacuum. A few blocks down, Cardinale du Vin has been running its own version of a day-to-night flip for a while now, a coffee bar by morning that turns into a wine bar and bistro by evening, with a menu that leans on Old World, minimal-intervention wine and dishes pulling from Los Angeles, Bangkok, Paris, and Eastern North Carolina in roughly equal measure. Leopard Pizza Co. pops up there with Neapolitan-style pies every Tuesday and Sunday, and Saturday nights bring vinyl sessions to the same room.
That's the texture Lielle and Marée are dropping into: a corridor that already knows how to run a restaurant that changes personality by the hour and by the day of the week, because its customer base does the same. The two new restaurants aren't introducing that pattern to Beverlywood. They're the latest example of it.
What This Means If You Live Here This Month
If you want to try Lielle, plan ahead. Five nights a week, no lunch, and a fixed four-course format means walk-in seating isn't the play. If you want Marée, the midnight reservation drop for the next two weeks is your best shot at a table, though the bar seating built into the room is designed for the people who didn't plan that far ahead.
Either way, the walk from your car to the front door is the same one it's always been. What's waiting behind two different doors at the same address is now genuinely worth the trip, on two different nights, for two different reasons.
If you're keeping an eye on what's changing in Beverlywood beyond what's on the menu, from new construction proposals along Pico to how the neighborhood's home values are holding up against the rest of the Westside, Simon Mashian tracks the block the way a resident would, not the way a portal does. Let's Connect.
