Zaytinya

Recently opened at The Shay in Culver City, Zaytinya, which originated in Washington, DC, in 2002, blends José Andrés Group’s celebrated hospitality and excellence with Los Angeles’ creative spirit and California’s abundance of produce and hyperlocal ingredients. Guests experiencing Zaytinya are greeted with the restaurant’s signature breezy ambiance, evoking the Mediterranean with a dining room awash with navy blue hues, birch wood chairs, custom-made hanging lamps, and potted olive trees, and Zaytinya’s signature menu with spreads like hommus and htipiti, vegetable, seafood, and meat mezzes, airy housemade pita, and family-style entrees—with a focus on seasonality, incorporating California’s abundance of produce from local farmers, fishers and ranchers. The added element of a wood burning hearth imparts rich, smoky flavors to Zaytinya’s Culver City menu, with dishes like grilled lamb chops with smoked labneh, tzatziki, and harissa chili crisp, and the signature whole grilled mediterranean sea bass.