"Darling is an ambitious project for a chef who still lives with his family in Nashville After decades of writing cookbooks, opening restaurants like Nashville's 2022 restaurant of the year, Audrey, and appearing on Netflix's Chef's Table, he stepped away from operations at his celebrated restaurant Husk in 2018, which has locations in Charleston, Nashville, and Savannah. The central question is: why split the time between Tennessee and Los Angeles?"
""The way I've cooked in the South is a philosophy of an intense curiosity that I'm applying somewhere else," shares Brock. "For me, this is so challenging to be in a new place, researching LA's culture, history, ingredients, and the scene is a lot of work. I'm at a point in my life where I could take it easy, or I can keep trucking.""
Sean Brock opens Darling in West Hollywood on August 31 as a departure from his Southern roots, focusing on California ingredients, live-fire cooking, and a hi-fi listening lounge. The restaurant will offer a 12-item menu that changes monthly and cocktails developed in tandem by Jason Lee. Brock will use custom hand-forged wood grills for dishes including a 45-day bone-in New York strip grilled over red oak, a dry-aged steak burger, and almond wood-grilled Dungeness crab with green almonds and cucumber. Menu development pairs local produce and oysters with inventive flavor combinations. Brock maintains a base in Nashville while splitting time with Los Angeles.
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