Restaurateur Humberto Leon has a chat with internest_the about trashy food, midnight snacks, and his 'surreal' new Los Angeles restaurant, Monarch.
Blade Runner, and the vibes reflect his deep ties to family and Chinese culture. Leon is no stranger to the business—he spent his adolescence working in his family’s two local restaurants—but the path to Monarch was as winding as the Baldwin Avenue road leading to the restaurant’s neon-lit doors. Who might one find in its cloud-like blue seats? Kids, grandparents, and lovers, he says.
LEON: Two years ago, I decided to move back to LA, and my family and I decided to open a restaurant, my mom, my sister, my brother-in-law, and myself. I grew up in L.A., so part of the excitement about opening restaurants in LA is that I grew up in my uncle’s and mom’s restaurant business. Now we’re turning the tables and the restaurant is under our supervision. It’sMACIAS: I love that. It’s lunchtime here in New York City. What’s for lunch today?MACIAS: Yeah.
LEON: I had a lot of images from these baby drawings of animals being wild in heaven. My mom is Buddhist and so there’s a lot of this Buddhist imagery that was on my mood board juxtaposed with this futurist I’m obsessed with who died a couple of years ago named Syd Mead, and he really designed for the future. In the ’60s he was a futurist, and he was designing for the times that we’re living in now.
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