Press Clippings
Here's a mix of clips and articles about my previous adventures, including reviews about the two restaurants I owned, The Beach House and La Cachette.
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The Hollywood Reporter
Liza knows a thing or two about making a restaurant a smash...
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Los Angeles Times Magazine
Liza really knows how to make her guests comfortable... if the dining room reverberates with too many people having a good time, the hostess will try to find you another table—in the bar or outside in the small, fenced-in patio decorated with tubs of lavender and flowing vines. When the breeze kicks up, the hostess offers to lend any woman diner a sweater. I'm not sure where else anyone would notice—or care—that a guest isn't dressed warmly enough…
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Los Angeles Magazine
The Beach House is like one of those non-linear equations; the whole is even greater than the sum of its parts. The place has an electric feel, thanks in large part to Liza, who grew up in Malibu and the Pacific Palisades and seems to know everyone in the joint...
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Wine Spectator
The Beach House is a mix of Liza's outgoing Southern California personality and a restrained good taste.
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Jay Weston's
I first met the irresistible Liza Utter several years ago when she was a waitress at the old Cicada on Melrose while attending college. Her final thesis was a marketing plan for a new restaurant... She and the fiery chef Jean Francois Meteigner left to launch La Cachette in 1994, that wonderful French restaurant in West L.A. that she conceived, designed, and co-owned...
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Angeleno
Liza... the proprietress of the wildly popular Santa Monica restaurant, The Beach House, emerges dressed to the nines to greet her guests with a 150-watt smile and an enthusiastic 'Hi!' It's as if Utter is welcoming old friends rather than paying customers...
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In Style
"Big Night for Mr. Natural: There are flowery invitations and there are flowering invitations, like the ones Woody Harrelson sent out beckoning friends to The Beach House restaurant in Santa Monica to promote Oasis Preserve International, a rainforest conservation organization that he founded."
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Buzz
"La Cachette: Best New Restaurant You Can Actually Get Into"
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Surf Divas: Successful Women From Pacific Palisades and Santa Monica are "dropping in" on men...
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Here's an article I wrote for Los Angeles Magazine
"Surfing Safari: Enough of those Beach Boys, Las Olas Camp in Mexico is a Girls Only Getaway"
"It was a girls night out NBA (No Boys Allowed), an interlude of margaritas, chips, and laughs..."
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