Crustacean's Last Month on Bedford Drive, and Who Sets the Beverly Hills Dinner Table Now

"We could not be more grateful for this extra time to properly thank our loyal guests and community for 30 wonderful years, and to give our team members the respectful transition they deserve."

Elizabeth An wrote that in August, after the restaurant her mother started got a reprieve. Chef Helene An opened Crustacean in 1995, and it helped make Asian fusion cooking popular in Los Angeles. According to Eater LA, the Beverly Hills location closes for good on October 31, 2026, after 31 years. Customers didn't stop coming. The corner building at Bedford Drive and South Santa Monica Boulevard was sold, and the new owner did not renew the lease.

That is the clearest example of a pattern across the city's dining map this year. The restaurants opening now mostly have a large owner behind them: a hotel, a fashion house, or a group that has already proven the concept somewhere else. The independent restaurants leaving tend to be the ones that never controlled their own space.

What October at 468 N. Bedford Actually Looks Like

The dates have shifted a few times, so here is the current schedule. Crustacean first announced July 29 as its last day. A lease extension followed. The restaurant took a short break, reopened August 5 for limited dine-in through September 30, and is now handling takeout and special events until it closes on Halloween. An August Beverly Press report described the restaurant as closing at the end of September. In practice, September 30 was the last night of dine-in, and October is the takeout and events month.

After Halloween, the cooking moves elsewhere instead of disappearing. The An family's House of AN group still runs Crustacean in San Francisco, Tiato in Santa Monica, AnQi in Orange County and Thanh Long in San Francisco. The family has said it plans Crustacean pop-ups at Tiato and AnQi and will keep catering private events. Elizabeth An told Fox 11 that the family is looking at Calabasas and Pasadena for a new location. No new address has been announced. For the next few weeks, takeout from 468 N. Bedford Drive is the last chance to get this food from its original Beverly Hills kitchen.

The Building Changed Hands Twice in This Story

One detail in Eater's reporting explains a lot. The An family tried to buy the property in the early 2000s and was outbid. So for more than two decades, one of the best-known restaurants in Beverly Hills operated in a building owned by someone else. When that owner sold this year, the new owner had different plans for the site, according to An. Local reporting has not named the buyer or the planned use.

Crustacean isn't the only long-running restaurant to leave this year. Nerano, a 10-year Beverly Hills restaurant at 9960 S. Santa Monica Blvd., closed July 26, 2026. Il Fornaio at 301 N. Beverly Dr., one of the chain's early locations, served its last meal January 11. Each closing has its own reasons, and only Crustacean's has been explained publicly in detail. Still, three established restaurants left within one year, and the new ones arriving look very different.

Who Hosts Dinner Now

Most of the year's notable openings fall into three groups.

Inside the hotels

• The Waldorf Astoria Beverly Hills redid its downstairs restaurant as a Tuscan steakhouse with Edoardo "Edo" Baldi, whose family is behind Giorgio Baldi in Santa Monica and e.Baldi in Beverly Hills. On the roof, the pan-Asian restaurant Gemma took over the former Jean-Georges space, with chef Peleg Miron serving dim sum and Singaporean noodles with lobster.
• Poza is the new rooftop at L'Ermitage Beverly Hills, serving lobster rolls and Korean fried chicken wings. Depending on the night, there's a DJ or a soundbath.
• Maybourne Bar, on the ground floor of The Maybourne Beverly Hills, offers a 10-item caviar omakase.
• Noble 33 is scheduled to open at the Rosewood Residences in 2027.

Inside the fashion flagships

• Monsieur Dior by Dominique Crenn sits on the top floor of Dior's flagship at 323 N. Rodeo Dr. It opened in fall 2025. Dining room reservations, tasting menus and afternoon tea are all booked through OpenTable.

From groups that proved the concept somewhere else

• Bad Roman opened May 26, 2026, at 267 N. Cañon Dr. It comes from the New York team behind Don Angie. It took over the space The Palm left when it closed in fall 2023.
• Sushi Nakazawa, the Michelin-starred omakase restaurant from New York and Washington, D.C., opened on Robertson Boulevard. Its 20-course menus include hot and cold dishes that the Courier says this location is the only one to offer.
• Malka opened at SIXTY Beverly Hills in August. It is chef Eyal Shani's first full-service restaurant in Los Angeles, and it is fully kosher.
• The Brothers Sushi started in Woodland Hills, expanded to Santa Monica and Culver City, and opened its fourth location on South Beverly Drive.
• Azur, from Erik and Florence Chol, brought French Mediterranean cooking to Cañon Drive. The weekday prix fixe lunch is two courses for $35.
• Vicky on Rodeo, an all-day Parisian brasserie at Two Rodeo Drive, is open 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. daily. Owner Vincent Benoliel, a Beverly Hills resident who also runs Sora hand roll bar in Brentwood, told the Courier the city "was missing a casual French brasserie with reasonable prices."

Even with that kind of backing, a restaurant isn't guaranteed to last. Gucci Osteria, the Michelin-starred restaurant on the top floor of the Gucci store at 347 N. Rodeo Dr., closed November 22, 2025, while the store stayed open. Gucci has not announced a replacement. Like Crustacean, it closed because of a decision by whoever controlled the space. Gucci Osteria's chef, Mattia Agazzi, has already found his next kitchen, also with a large property owner behind it. He is leading the Supper Club at The Beverly Hills Hotel, a 94-seat restaurant and music venue designed by Ken Fulk. Its programming is curated by Alex Le Roux and centers on jazz, with soul and R&B mixed in. Banquettes curve in a semicircle around the stage. Eater calls it part of the hotel's most extensive renovation since the 1940s and reported in August that it is planned to open before the end of the year. No firm date has been published.

So a chef can move from a fashion house to a hotel and keep a Beverly Hills address. A family-run restaurant without that kind of landlord has to look as far as Calabasas or Pasadena.

An October Planned Around a Closing Date

With Crustacean doing takeout through Halloween, the rest of the city's fall calendar lands in the same weeks.

1. October 10 to 12: Beverly Hills Fashion Week at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts.
2. October 12: Application deadline for Rodeo Drive Has Talent. The selected performer will be announced October 20.
3. October 12 to 25: Lawry's The Prime Rib, at 100 N. La Cienega Blvd., serves a three-course Steak Lovers menu. On October 16 at 7 p.m. it hosts a Halloween-themed murder-mystery dinner. Lawry's is one of the few long-running restaurants on this list.
4. October 17 and 18: The Beverly Hills Fall Art Show in Beverly Gardens Park, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
5. October 18: The Beverly Hills Autumn BBQ at Beverly Cañon Gardens.
6. October 28 to November 4: Fleurs de Villes: The Gilded Age at Greystone Mansion & Gardens, 905 Loma Vista Drive, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
7. October 31: Crustacean's last day at 468 N. Bedford Drive.
8. November 19: The Rodeo Drive Holiday Lighting Celebration. This year the city is basing its holiday decorations on the 50th anniversary of Rodeo Drive.

On the Art Show weekend, Beverly Gardens Park is a short walk from the corner of Bedford Drive and South Santa Monica Boulevard. You could pick up a Crustacean takeout order the same afternoon.

When a corner building like the one at Bedford and Santa Monica sells, its tenants and the surrounding blocks feel it for years. If you own property near one of these Beverly Hills corridors and want to know how a sale like this could affect your street, Mark Gallandt can walk you through it. Let's Connect.