For most of the last decade, dinner in Beverlywood meant getting in the car. The 1,354 homes inside the Beverlywood Homes Association sit on a canopy of quiet streets centered on Circle Park, and the closest destination rooms were a drive east into Pico-Robertson or west toward Century City. The Pico edge itself, for all its traffic, was a corridor you passed through on the way somewhere else.
That has changed at one address. The two-story building at 9575 West Pico Boulevard, most recently home to Walter and Margarita Manzke's Bicyclette and, before that, Manzke, Sotto, and Picca, is now a stacked pair of restaurants from Swedish chef Marcus Jernmark. Downstairs is open. Upstairs is arriving. For residents who have watched that corner cycle through concepts, this one is different in a way worth understanding before it fully lands.
What is actually open, and what is coming
Lielle opened earlier this year in the subterranean level. It seats 42 on merlot-hued leather banquettes under a cork-lined barrel-vaulted ceiling, and it runs a four-course prix fixe at $150 per person. Jernmark, a Frantzén and Per Se alum, calls the format "California Bistronomy." The current schedule is Tuesday through Saturday, seatings from 5 to 8:30 p.m., with plans to expand to seven nights once the upstairs sister opens.
That sister is Marée. The team has described it as a Parisian-Californian bistro with an open kitchen, a zinc bar, and a green marble center table, targeting late summer 2026 for a debut. It is meant to be the day-to-night piece of the building: coffee and pastries in the morning, wine and cheese in the late afternoon, weekend brunch, and casual dinner. Where Lielle is a reservation and an occasion, Marée is designed to be a habit.
The distinction matters because it changes what the corner is for.
| Lielle | Marée | |
|---|---|---|
| Level | Downstairs, subterranean | Upstairs, sunlit |
| Format | Four-course prix fixe, $150 | À la carte bistro and wine bar |
| Seats | 42 | Larger, weekend brunch capacity |
| Hours today | Tue–Sat, 5–8:30 p.m. | Opening late summer 2026 |
| Reason to go | Anniversary, out-of-town guest, industry dinner | Tuesday glass of wine, Sunday brunch |
Read the producer list as a map, not a menu
Fine dining name-drops sourcing all the time, and most of it washes over the reader. Jernmark's list is worth pausing on because it tells you what kind of restaurant is actually taking root on Pico. Abalone and seaweed come from Monterey Abalone Company. Mature beef arrives from Motley Crew Ranch. Wild game is from Broken Arrow Ranch. Cheese is from Andante Dairy in Petaluma. The wine list runs about 250 bottles, weighted toward California with a substantial Burgundy section, and pours by the glass from Corison, Occidental, and Arnot-Roberts alongside smaller California producers like Outward Wines, Scar of the Sea, and Amevive. Corkage runs $75, waived if you also buy a bottle from the list.
What the sourcing signals to a Beverlywood resident: this is not a concept parachuted in from a hospitality group, and it is not designed to churn covers. It is a restaurant with a coastal-agricultural supply chain that will be here in five years. The wine cave design, the 300-plus label cellar, the plan to move Lielle to seven nights and stack a café above it, are all consistent with a building that intends to become the neighborhood's dining anchor rather than a stop on someone's tasting tour.
Why a two-restaurant building rearranges a summer evening
The practical question for someone who lives on Kirkside, Cardiff, or Beverly Drive is whether any of this actually affects the walk from your front door.
The answer is that it turns one corner into two very different rooms at two very different price points, both reachable on foot from most of the association's 1,354 homes. Before Lielle, an evening on Pico meant picking a category and driving to it. In late summer, the same short walk will offer:
- A 5 p.m. reservation at Lielle for a birthday or a client dinner, then a nightcap upstairs at Marée without moving the car.
- A Saturday morning walk to Marée for coffee and a pastry after a loop around Circle Park.
- A Tuesday glass of wine at the zinc bar with no reservation, treated the way residents of denser Westside pockets treat their corner wine bar.
- A drop-in weekend brunch that does not require an OpenTable countdown at midnight.
None of those existed at this address a year ago. Jernmark himself has acknowledged the walkability question, telling LA Magazine that the block "is not the most walkable area" and framing the two-restaurant stack as a way to keep the building lively across the day. From inside Beverlywood, though, the calculation is different. The neighborhood's residential streets already work on foot. What was missing was a destination worth walking to. The building supplies one, and it supplies two versions of it.
What to know before you go in the next few weeks
Chef Jernmark told The Hollywood Reporter he wants guests to be able to "choose their own adventure and decide why they're coming back." Read practically, that translates into a few things worth knowing before Marée opens and Lielle expands its schedule.
- Reservations at Lielle move. The 42-seat room and Tuesday-through-Saturday window mean the desirable early-summer weekends book out. Weeknight early seatings around 5 p.m. are the quieter door.
- The prix fixe is the whole menu. $150 buys four courses. Supplements exist. There is no bar menu downstairs, so if you want a lighter meal, that is what Marée will be for.
- The wine program rewards a conversation. By-the-glass rotates through California coastal and mountain producers most guests will not recognize. Ask.
- Parking is Pico Boulevard parking. Residents on the north side of Pico will find the walk faster than the search for a legal space after 6 p.m. on a Friday.
- Marée's opening date is late summer 2026. No firm public date at the time of writing. The upstairs windows are the tell; when the paper comes down, it is close.
The larger point for the neighborhood
Restaurants come and go on this stretch of Pico. Sotto lasted. Picca lasted. Manzke and Bicyclette closed in March 2024 after a strong run. The instinct, watching another concept move into the same building, is to treat it as one more turn of the wheel.
What is different this time is the structural bet. A single operator has taken both floors, is building a fine-dining room and a neighborhood café into the same address, and is sourcing from producers who suggest a long time horizon. That is not a pop-up. It is a wager that Beverlywood, and the stretch of Pico between Beverly Drive and Beverwil, can support a two-restaurant building the way a walkable pocket of the Westside would. If the wager pays off, the residential streets north of Pico get something they have not had: a corner worth walking to on a Tuesday.
For homeowners who have lived inside the Beverlywood Homes Association for a decade or more, that is the meaningful change. Not the Michelin résumé, not the abalone, not the design press. The fact that dinner, wine, and a Sunday pastry are now inside the same address, three blocks from Circle Park.
If you are thinking about what a shift like this means for how your block lives, or how a buyer coming to Beverlywood in the fall will read this corner, Joel + Dorit Cooper know the streets between Pico and Cashio the way residents do. Schedule a consultation when the moment is right.
