The famed Hollywood watering hole Formosa Cafe, where Tim Burton and Johnny Depp hashed out 'Ed Wood' over beers, has been restored to its former glory. Get an exclusive first look:
Reopening June 28 after a $2.4 million, two-year face-lift by 1933 Group, the new Formosa will look a lot like the old . "I'm using my memories of Formosa, plus movies like, photos and artifacts, to make it look almost exactly the same," says Group lead designer Bobby Green, who along with business partners Dimitri Komarov and Dmitry Liberman, has also restored Highland Park Bowl, Idle Hour and the future Tail-O-the-Pup.
Like an archaeological dig, years of lore were unearthed. Green worked with the last owner, Vince Jung, grandson of Lem Quon, who ran the place for nearly half a century, to gain access to old menus and hundreds of black-and-white photos that used to line the walls. Green also sourced items from places with as big a Hollywood connection as the Formosa itself, like pagoda-style roof tiles from Warner Bros.
Walking in the door, diners are greeted by the front room, with the original bar on one side and reupholstered red vinyl booths on the other. Each booth is named after an old Hollywood movie star, including Lana Turner, John Wayne, Elvis Presley and Ava Gardner, whose booth was in the corner toward the back. Notorious gangster Bugsy Siegel’s booth, the first in the front, has the added flourish of his floor safe, lit up like an underworld beacon, beneath the table.
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