Gwen
Fine dining restaurant · Hollywood
6600 W Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90028
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Highlights
Butcher shop & Michelin-starred restaurant with fire-based cuisine
Butcher shop & Michelin-starred restaurant with fire-based cuisine
"One star. Curtis Stone earned a star for his meat-centric Hollywood restaurant, which boasts its own butcher counter. A meal here feels like a fancy Art Deco party flowing with grilled steaks and inventive drinks. Gwen announced a closure some time in August 2025 and will relocate to the Westside." - Eater Staff
"A Michelin-starred restaurant, butcher shop, and bakery opened in 2016 by Australia-born chef Curtis Stone and his brother as a follow-up to their Beverly Hills tasting-menu project. Lauded for its modern Art Deco design, soaring ceilings, and a fully visible wood-fired grill, the operation evolved into a high-end steakhouse centered on meats dry-aged on the premises; its expanded butcher shop became a city destination for house-made charcuterie, salumi, pastries, and sandwiches. After eight years in Hollywood the owners announced plans to close that location—likely in early-to-mid August—while seeking a new Westside site, citing neighborhood challenges after the 2023 writers’ and actors’ strikes and the January 2025 wildfires and expressing a desire to grow, refine, and reimagine the concept." - Matthew Kang
"Part butcher shop-part restaurant, Gwen is chef Curtis and brother Luke Stone’s Hollywood meat sanctuary, which earned a Michelin star in 2022 for its overall excellence. The upscale steakhouse has more of a fine-dining feel with dishes like Josper-grilled squid with Thai chile or lobster tortellini leading into dry-aged cuts that are butchered on the premises. The wines and cocktails are also exemplary, but the real differentiator at Gwen is the service." - Mona Holmes
"Part butcher shop-part restaurant, Gwen is chef Curtis and brother Luke Stone’s Hollywood meat sanctuary, which earned a Michelin star in 2022 for its overall excellence. The upscale steakhouse has more of a fine-dining feel with dishes like Josper-grilled squid with Thai chile or lobster tortellini leading into dry-aged cuts that are butchered on the premises. The wines and cocktails are also exemplary, but the real differentiator at Gwen is the service." - Matthew Kang, Mona Holmes
"Chef Curtis Stone’s Michelin-starred steakhouse, which operates as a neighborhood butcher, pastry shop with Australian pies, and sandwiches during daytime hours, makes for a celebratory destination in the heart of Hollywood. Start with the house-made charcuterie before diving into fine cuts of beef, like the 30-day aged ribeye. The menu spans plenty of seasonal steakhouse dishes with the finesse of a fine dining restaurant, with a glorious modern Art Deco-meets-midcentury bunker dining room." - Rebecca Roland
