Sous Sous is one of LA’s newest restaurants located inside Hotel Lucile, a restored 1931 church in Silver Lake.
The restaurant leans into French-American flavors from the team behind the Arts District pizza spot De La Nonna. The dining room is the former chapel, with the original stained glass and vaulted ceilings. This TikTok walkthrough comes with some groovy background beats and gives you a feel for the space and the food.
The menu isn't posted yet, but the framing is Southern France meets the American South, with a raw bar and a lot of seafood options.
Since Sous Sous literally just opened, this is less about going somewhere with hundreds of five-star reviews and more about riding the early hype and looking like the seller who knows what’s going on in the LA dining scene.
Details
Where: Silver Lake inside Hotel Lucile (1629 Griffith Park Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90026).
Hours: Sunday–Thursday, 5–9pm; Friday–Saturday, 5–10pm.
Reservations: Groups up to 6 can book through Resy. For larger groups or private dinners, contact [email protected].
Price: They haven’t posted the exact menu or pricing online yet, but I’d budget roughly $100–$150 per person with drinks.
Added value: The Wild Katy Perry Connection
Hotel Lucile took a very long road to opening, including a bizarre and expensive detour involving Katy Perry, two nuns, and a completely different property in Los Feliz.
Local developer Dana Hollister held a long-term lease on the former Silver Lake church and was working to turn it into a hotel.
Separately, she struck the art of the deal with two nuns to buy their former convent in Los Feliz. At the same time, the Archdiocese of LA, the Catholic Church authority that actually had the right to sell the Los Feliz convent, was trying to sell the same property to Katy Perry.
That second deal turned into a legal fiasco. A jury found that Hollister had intentionally interfered with Perry’s deal, and she was hit with millions in damages.
Hollister eventually filed for bankruptcy, putting the Silver Lake hotel project in jeopardy before she sold her interest in 2020.
But, “like a plastic bag floating in the wind, wanting to start again,” the project survived, changed hands, and eventually became Hotel Lucile.