Audrey at the Hammer

"Legendary chef Alice Waters is opening a restaurant in Los Angeles soon. The project will be Waters’ first new restaurant in decades, after opening the seminal Berkeley restaurant Chez Panisse. While Waters’ new restaurant does not yet have a name, Eater has confirmed that it will land at the Hammer Museum, part of UCLA’s sprawling campus in the Westwood neighborhood. In true Waters fashion, reps for the Hammer say, the restaurant will “highlight wholesome foods sourced from local farms dedicated to responsible and regenerative farming practices.”" - Farley Elliott

"Audrey at the Hammer expands into brunch with a menu that includes crab chilaquiles and forbidden black rice with a soft boiled egg and Meyer lemon vinaigrette." - Mona Holmes

"You probably don’t go out of your way for museum restaurants very often, but you should make an exception for Audrey at the Hammer in Westwood. It’s in the objectively beautiful courtyard of the Hammer, and serves fantastic food involving (mostly) vegetables. At lunch, you should eat celery root soup and trout roe toast in the beautiful outdoor space, and watch museum-goers roll around in chairs that are more like human-sized dreidels. The restaurant is open for dinner when the museum closes, when you’ll find meatier things like a great pork porterhouse - it’s salty, juicy, and cooked perfectly. Don’t leave without getting a cocktail (our favorite is the Audrey)." - Brett Keating

"It’s not every day that LA earns a big new museum restaurant, but Audrey, which opens today inside the totally underrated Hammer Museum in Westwood from Soa Davis Forrest and chef Lisa Giffen in the kitchen. Serving lunch and dinner inside the museum, there’s no entrance fee required to dine at the restaurant, which takes over the museum’s rather wonderful courtyard, as well as a portion of the ground floor." - Matthew Kang

"The Hammer Museum has a new restaurant opening in early 2019 called Audrey from restaurateur Soa Davies Forrest and chef Lisa Giffen. Taking over a section of the ground floor of the museum, plus the patio, the dinner and daytime destination is the most compelling eatery to come to Westwood in the past year." - Matthew Kang