The Verdict
HINOKI & THE BIRD is David Myers's Century City modern Asian restaurant on West Century Drive whose Japanese hinoki wood design — the specific aromatic cypress whose architectural applications communicate genuine engagement with the Japanese design tradition — and Asian-influenced California seasonal cooking communicate what happens when a Los Angeles chef whose design sensibility is as seriously developed as his culinary intelligence applies both simultaneously. The modern Asian menu whose California seasonal ingredient applications communicate genuine engagement with the Pacific Rim flavour culture; the hinoki wood design whose architectural vocabulary communicates genuine Japanese aesthetic knowledge; and the Century City setting whose business district character creates the most commercially sophisticated available LA modern Asian dining context.
Why It Works for Impressing Clients
Hinoki & the Bird's Century City hinoki design and the modern Asian seasonal programme — the Japanese architectural aesthetic, the California-Pacific Rim synthesis, the business district setting — creates the client dinner that communicates the most design-seriously engaged available Los Angeles modern Asian experience.
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