Restaurant: Culina Modern Italian [1, 2, 3]
Location: 300 S Doheny Dr, Los Angeles, CA 90048. 310) 860-4000
Date: December 4, 2023
Cuisine: Italian
Rating: Way downhill
Hotel restaurants are always rebooting themselves, and so it goes with the 4 Seasons Beverly Hills. I ate here twice in 2017 and had very good meals, so I was reasonably optimistic coming into this Krug dinner.
Sebastian and David Chhay put together this really fun night of awesome wines at Culina in the Beverly Hills 4 Seasons.
We had this private nook.
The special menu. It paired, but it wasn’t exactly large.
Caspian Queen Caviar. We all thought this was an amuse — but it turned out to be a course!
Yellow Tail Crudo. Tasty enough — if typical — but not exactly filling.
Charred Beausoleil Oyster. The theme continues. These had a nice bacony taste, but two small oysters is like 3g of food.
Chilean Seabass. And finally a larger course comes and it’s a dry and basically bland hunk of slightly over-cooked fish.
There was so little food that Seb ordered some focciacia!
Prime Brandt NY. Just fine. Nothing special.
This wasn’t another course, it was just the pescatarian option for someone who didn’t want beef.
Vanilla Gelato, Truffle Honey, Persimmon, Pizelle. Texture was a bit grainy.
The wines were incredible and the evening super fun — but the food was very light and not particularly exciting. Culina had much better food years ago under Mirko.
