José Andrés’ Somni and the Bazaar to close this week after hotel owners terminate contract
Amid an especially brutal week for restaurant closures, the fates of two popular Beverly Hills dining destinations are in jeopardy.
Representatives for the Bazaar and Somni at SLS Beverly Hills said that those restaurants will be forced to close permanently on Friday after a lawsuit filed by the luxury hotel’s owners, Torrance-based multi-level marketing company and hotel chain Sunrider International, sought to terminate a consulting agreement.
The Bazaar, which opened in 2008, and Somni, the 10-seat tasting menu chef’s counter opened by chef Aitor Zabala in 2018, are both operated by José Andrés’ D.C.-based ThinkFoodGroup. According to a copy of the lawsuit obtained by The Times, a subsidiary of Sunrider, Sunworld Dynasty — which purchased the SLS from nightclub and hospitality firm SBE in 2015 for $195 million — alleged that ThinkFoodGroup had, among other claims, failed to “address structural, cost-cutting measures” and propagated “detrimental and negative statements about Sunworld” to staff.
“Sunworld’s termination of the long standing, world-class operations of the Bazaar restaurant at the SLS Hotel in Beverly Hills on August 6 is without merit and follows a letter writing campaign from Sunworld, carried out by its lawyers during the COVID-19 pandemic, alleging defaults that were obviously incapable of being cured while our employees lived through shelter-in-place orders,” the statement said.
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