Local Loser, Restaurant Div.: KASS

Why is this dump locked tight on Saturday night?

Aahhhh ...

Bigger picture:

Inviting, n'est-ce pas?

The culprit would appear to be this schmuck:

Talented Chef Christophe Émé
Steps Away From LA Wine Bar
After Six Months

The opening chef of Kass has departed, but the restaurant hopes
to stay in the neighborhood with a new menu

You know, the kind of guy not named Kenny or Roy Rogers who slaps his name on his unsanitary dump.

And the kind of schmuck who wanders Los Angeles leaving empty restaurants behind, as we noted over five yrs. ago, 'though we didn't connect the two until we looked at months-earlier Eater, when everything KASS was new & fresh
& filled w/ possibility.

Twelve years ago, chef Christophe Émé landed one of LA’s few Michelin stars for his restaurant Ortolan. The accomplished Frenchman, who cooked at a multitude of European fine dining institutions before landing at the famed L’Orangerie on La Cienega, went on to open Ortolan in 2005 (it closed in 2011). Tomorrow he opens Kass, a charming little wine bar and restaurant on La Brea Avenue.

Six yrs. for Ortolan (Those stars don't last long, do they?); 4 February 2014 it looked like this.

Froggie Émé, alas, married his way out of the immediate reach of La Migra I.C.E., so he can't be deported before he puts another dump out of business & jump-starts the impending Trump Slump.