"Tesse isn’t a great restaurant, but it is great for very specific situations. Namely, when you need to impress a client, close a deal, or appease your boss who spent all day screaming at Jerry Bruckheimer over the phone. In other words, it’s a total industry restaurant. The big, modern space is objectively beautiful, but also objectively soulless. It looks like someone’s third home in the Palisades that gets cleaned twice a week even though no one’s slept there in six months. The meat-heavy menu is enormous and pretty inconsistent, but if you stick to the tartare, the charcuterie, and the desserts, you’ll have a perfectly fine meal." - Brant Cox
Wonho Lee
