L.A.’s most prominent seafood chef, Michael Cimarusti, turns his attention to burgers, steaks and pork chops, with this new restaurant at the Ace Hotel Downtown.

The chef behind lauded fish restaurants Providence, Connie & Ted’s, Cape Seafood & Provisions, who also opens a seafood spot at the new Eataly in Century City later this week, has taken over the ground floor restaurant at the Ace.

The a new menu, developed by Cimarusti and chef de cuisine Adam Walker (ex Del Posto and Spice Market), is not focused on high-end seafood (although oysters, clams, crudo and crabcakes dominate the starters). Instead it pleases all palates, with a selection of simple, homey dishes that warm the soul.

Cimarusti and Walker will be responsible for breakfast, lunch and dinner at the restaurant, located adjacent to the hotel lobby, as well as room service for hotel guests.

And if U’re wondering about the name: it comes from the movie “My Best Girl,” the first film shown in the adjacent Theatre at Ace Hotel, which opened on Halloween, 1927.

Ideal For

Breakfast, brunch, lunch or dinner

Signature Dishes

Try the BTU Burger, a lighter take on the Big Mac, and a grilled hanger steak served with a Weiser Farms honeynut squash prepared with lime juice and Vietnamese fish sauce and completed with cipollini onions and horseradish, to a calamarata pasta with a Calabrian pork ragu and locatelli romana. Don’t miss the Bardstown Pudding, a bourbon-centric sticky toffee pudding, for dessert.