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The Brilliant, Bitter History of L.A.’s Fabled Ma Maison, Where Welles and Nicholson Were Regulars
This story first appeared in the July 31 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine.
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In 1975, Wolfgang Puck, then 25 and a nobody in the food world, broke out as the hot new chef at French restaurateur Patrick Terrail‘s scrappy, struggling 2-year-old boite Ma Maison on Melrose Avenue, a scalpel’s toss from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.
Together Puck and Terrail, a member of a storied French hospitality family that owns the legendary 4-century-old Parisian landmark La Tour d’Argent, made Ma Maison the key industry restaurant of the next 10 years, stuffed with stars all frequently dining on the patio at once (Gabor!
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Nicholson! Astaire! Brando!) and notorious for its unlisted phone number and the epic line of Rolls-Royces parked out front. On the 40th anniversary of Puck’s debut, the chef and his onetim