//How a Master Chef Created a Michelin-Starred Restaurant in a Mall Food Court

How a Master Chef Created a Michelin-Starred Restaurant in a Mall Food Court

Michelin-starred Dialogue is a Santa Monica restaurant that prides itself on confusing the diner.

“If we force them to share something, and we don’t really tell people how to eat it, and just say ‘we encourage you to explore,’ then they have to talk to each other,” says executive chef and owner Dave Beran. He’s referring to courses like squab and beet consume, served in a glass to resemble wine, salmon roe on a bed of what’s essentially fancy cheese