The official L.A. Times list of the 101 best restaurants in Los Angeles, curated by our restaurant critics.last summer, Yenbamroong grabbed the Venice property right away. Since then, he’s turned down multiple requests to rent it out.
Before he reinvented himself as a chef, Yenbamroong lived in New York City, where he studied film and photography at NYU. He worked as a photo assistant to artist Richard Kern, who has been known since the 1980s for his movies and pictures that star a rotating cast of beautiful, strong, nude women. This is how it works at his restaurants, he says, and it will weave its way into Le Maximum too. “We’re very rigorous about creating a party.”
“This summer I asked him if he ever thought of showing art in his restaurants like his father used to,” Considine said, “and Kris mentioned he had this empty space next to Sahm.”