Lielle Won Beverlywood a Michelin Star. The Building Has Done This Before.

"It's a nice full-circle moment," chef Marcus Jernmark told The Hollywood Reporter this year, describing the night he arrived in Los Angeles in 2021 and ate his first meal at Bicyclette, the French bistro Walter and Margarita Manzke ran at 9575 West Pico Boulevard. Four years later, nearly to the day, Jernmark opened his own restaurant in that same basement dining room.

Lielle earned a Michelin star within four months of opening in February 2026. That part of the story has already made the rounds. What hasn't gotten as much attention, at least not from anyone writing about the neighborhood rather than the food, is what the address itself has been doing since long before Jernmark walked in for that first dinner. The building at 9575 Pico has spent close to two decades handing successive chefs a stage, and each one has used it differently.

The Address That Keeps Getting It Right

Before Bicyclette, the same two-story building housed Sotto and Picca, two restaurants that older Westside diners still bring up unprompted. Bicyclette ran until it closed in March 2024. Lielle moved in less than two years later, in the same footprint, with the same street number, a few blocks from the newly opened Cameo Beverly Hills hotel.

That is three distinct restaurant concepts occupying one Beverlywood building over roughly twenty years, and none of them arrived as a downgrade from what came before. A location doing that once might be luck. Doing it three times in a row, across three different ownership groups with no connection to each other, says something about the building and the corridor around it that a single opening never could.

What's Actually in the Basement

Jernmark's résumé is the kind Pico Boulevard rarely sees on a restaurant lease. He spent seven years at Restaurant Frantzén in Stockholm, a three-Michelin-star kitchen that sits near the top of the World's 50 Best list, and helped open its Singapore sibling, Zén. Before that he cooked at Per Se in New York and co-owned Aquavit. He moved to Los Angeles in 2021 and spent the next several years building relationships with California growers rather than rushing into a lease, which explains why the sourcing at Lielle reads like a list of specific ranches and waterways rather than generic menu language: Motley Crew Ranch for mature beef, Monterey Abalone Company for abalone and seaweed, Broken Arrow Ranch for wild game, Petaluma's Andante Dairy for cheese.

The room itself seats 42 people below street level, in roughly 2,300 square feet lined with cork and vaulted in a wine-cellar shape. Los Angeles design firm Lovers Unite, the same studio behind Bar Etoile in Melrose Hill, built it out alongside Jernmark's wife and creative partner Andrea, who contributed hand-sewn linens and kintsugi ceramics to the space. The menu runs four courses for $150 a person, put together by chef de cuisine Matthew Bowden, previously of Providence. Dishes that have shown up on the menu across its first months include grilled abalone with seaweed rice, dry-aged bluefin, koji rice with lobster, and duck roti.

Getting a table takes some planning. Reservations run through OpenTable and release on a rolling basis each Monday, with roughly two weeks of availability opening at a time. The dining room seats guests Tuesday through Saturday evenings, and the restaurant asks that questions about an existing booking go through its phone line rather than the reservation system.

If you live within walking distance of Pico and Beverwil, this is the kind of detail that actually matters more than the Michelin write-up. A 42-seat room with a two-week booking window is not a place you wander into on a Tuesday because you didn't feel like cooking. It is a place you plan around, the same way residents of the Beverlywood grid have always planned around whichever restaurant currently occupies that basement.

A Second Act, Upstairs

Jernmark and his team aren't stopping at the ground floor. A French concept called Marée, from the same group behind Lielle, is expected to open in the space upstairs later this year. Public reporting from earlier in 2026 described it as a second act in the same building rather than a separate project elsewhere on the boulevard, which would make 9575 Pico a two-restaurant address for the first time in its history rather than a rotating single tenant.

That detail changes the calculus for anyone who has watched this corner cycle through concepts before. A building that supported one ambitious restaurant at a time for twenty years is now being asked to support two simultaneously, under one ownership group, with two very different price points and cuisines sitting one floor apart.

The Auto Shop a Few Blocks East

Not every new opening on this stretch of Pico is chasing a Michelin star. A short walk east, at 5510 West Pico Boulevard, Sniper Alignment & Auto Service is set to be replaced by a food hall and bar from Robert Vinokur's Playhouse Group, the team behind Linden & Dot, Mad Lab Coffee Roasters, and the West Coast outposts of Joe's Pizza and Chopped Cheese.

Planning filings describe a project built for daily use rather than reservations: 3,339 square feet indoors, 2,173 square feet of outdoor patio, 122 total seats, and hours running from 7 a.m. to 1 a.m. every day. The concept pairs three food counters with an ice cream shop and a small bar under a single operator, with ping-pong and table games on site and no arcade machines or live entertainment planned.

Where Lielle asks for two weeks of notice and $150 a head, this project is designed to be the kind of place you stop into on a Wednesday morning for coffee and again that same night for a drink, with no booking required either time.

Two Restaurants, Two Different Jobs

Read together, these two projects are not really competing for the same customer. Lielle and its upcoming Marée are built for the evening you plan in advance, the anniversary dinner or the visiting friend you want to impress. The Playhouse Group project is built for the errand you didn't plan at all, the coffee run that turns into a lunch, the after-work drink with whoever happens to be free.

That split has existed on this stretch of Pico before, just under different names. Sotto and Picca drew people from across the city who booked ahead. The businesses around them handled the daily traffic. What's different now is that both ends of that spectrum are getting a deliberate, well-capitalized upgrade at the same time, on the same half-mile of street, within months of each other.

For anyone who already calls this stretch of Beverlywood home, that's the actual news. Not that a Swedish chef won a Michelin star four months after opening, impressive as that is, but that the boulevard is being rebuilt in two directions at once: upward in ambition at 9575, and outward in daily usefulness at 5510. Residents who've followed the village's slower changes over the past few years will recognize the pattern even if the names are new.

If you're the kind of person who tracks a neighborhood by watching what fills its storefronts rather than by checking a market report, keep an eye on both ends of this corridor over the next few months. Marée's opening date and the food hall's grand opening will tell you more about where Pico Boulevard is headed than either project's press release will.

Farhad Yasharpour and Beverly Luxury Estates keep a close watch on the Westside's daily texture, not just its listings. If you want a read on how a specific block or building in Beverlywood is trending, reach out and we'll walk you through what we're seeing on the ground.