Minx - CLOSED

• Cuisine(s): American
  Hours: Sun 10:30am-3pm, Sun,Tue,Wed,Thu,Fri,Sat 5pm-11pm, Tue-Thu 11:30am-2:30pm
  Price: $$$
  Payment Types: All Major Credit Cards
• Features: Patio/Sidewalk Dining, Takeout, Fireplace
  Serving: Dinner, Lunch
  Entertainment: Live Entertainment
  Alcohol: Full bar
• Reservations: Accepted, Not Necessary
  Parking: Valet

Description

A glowing, blue apparition thrusting out of the lower slopes of the Verdugos like the prow of a party barge, Minx is a look back to the world of ’80s Los Angeles restaurants, where the women were women, the men sometimes were too, and we all crowded into megalithic bunkers to dine on rare duck breast, pan-fried endangered species and flagons of lesser California Cabernet Sauvignon. I forget what grilled, impaled animal parts were called back then, but the chef runs his skewers of tandoori-spiced chicken and coconut shrimp over flames that are way too hot for them and calls them Fusion Robata. Steak tartare is coarsely chopped, nominally truffled, and served on a bed of chopped hard-boiled egg. Filet mignon is crusted with crumbs of hazelnuts and cocoa nibs — the best you can say is that they don’t seem to harm the meat all that much — and the duck breast, inflected with foie gras, candied ginger, corn pancakes and Chinese five-spice, sparkles with flakes of 14-karat gold. Minx, converted from a place called the Rusty Pelican, may be for you.