![]() This movement toward multiples has a California character all its own, and the restaurateurs would recoil at the suggestion that they are building anything like restaurant chains. Valentino in Santa Monica, with its elegant Italian cuisine and a wine list with 1,200 selections, spawned Primi, which serves imaginative small dishes to graze on in West Los Angeles. ![]() La Scala in Beverly Hills created Presto in Brentwood, giving it a similar opera theme but making it much more lighthearted. The Mandarin, the Beverly Hills version of the original Mandarin restaurant in San Francisco, produced Mandarette in West Hollywood. Among them are L'Orangerie and Pastel, the former an elegant classic French restaurant and the latter, its spinoff, an indoor-outdoor cafe on Rodeo Drive. Far from wearing out their welcome on the city's rapidly growing restaurant scene, the guiding forces behind these restaurants say they are furnishing new choices to their regular customers or attracting a clientele that is new, yet compatible with the image of the original.Īt least a half-dozen such restaurant duos have sprung up in the past two or three years. ![]() The new dining places are informal, offer speedy service and often charge less than their parent establishments. In a town that thrives on sequels - ''Poltergeist II,'' ''Karate Kid II'' and the various generations of ''Jaws'' and ''Rocky'' -some of the most popular restaurants in Los Angeles are opening spinoffs of themselves, in a sort of ''son of'' movement for food aficionados.
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