Why The Maybourne Bar matters.
The Maybourne Bar is a refined cocktail and caviar bar where Golden Triangle meets André Fu's first American hospitality interior, British hotel tradition and a five-seat marble counter recast around caviar, oysters and Champagne.
Set along North Cañon Drive near Brighton Way and directly beside Beverly Cañon Gardens, the bar occupies the lobby level of The Maybourne Beverly Hills within the Golden Triangle's concentration of hotels, restaurants and luxury retail. André Fu organized the intimate room around a solid Turkish silver-onyx bar with polished nickel accents, establishing a luminous centerpiece within the compact footprint. Ivory and charcoal burr-walnut paneling surrounds white terrazzo and silver Emperador marble flooring, with orange-leather chairs and Yves Klein blue stools breaking the predominantly monochrome palette. Black-and-white photography by Mary McCartney supplies the principal artwork, extending the British connection through images whose restraint complements Fu's material composition. The result is a highly controlled hotel bar whose onyx, walnut, marble, photography and saturated seating compress Maybourne's European lineage into one of Beverly Hills' smallest luxury drinking rooms.
What defines The Maybourne Bar.
The Maybourne Bar is best known for becoming part of Maybourne's first expansion beyond Europe before undergoing a second reinvention as Beverly Hills' dedicated caviar-and-oyster bar. London-based Maybourne acquired the former Montage Beverly Hills in December 2019, bringing the property into the same hotel company as Claridge's, The Connaught and The Berkeley. The group formally assumed ownership and operation on May 28, 2020 and named the property The Maybourne Beverly Hills, establishing its first hotel outside London. Food and beverage operations began returning that August, with The Terrace, café, rooftop operation and lobby bar forming the initial restaurant collection under the new ownership. Head mixologist Chris Amirault, previously associated with Otium, developed the bar's early cocktail program around classic families including highballs, sidecars, daiquiris, old-fashioneds, flips and martinis, applying seasonal ingredients to established structures. A far larger conceptual change arrived on September 18, 2025 when executive chef Damon Gordon partnered with N25 founder Hermes Gehnen to convert the room into a caviar-and-oyster bar. Gordon's team spent two months tasting more than twelve caviars before selecting N25, whose sturgeon are raised through aquaculture in China before the roe undergoes the company's aging process in Germany. Only ten percent of N25's harvest reaches its branded selection after grading, and the Maybourne partnership became the first California restaurant or bar to carry the producer. The opening program extended beyond nightly service through a seven-person masterclass led by Gehnen and a caviar, oyster and Billecart-Salmon dinner, connecting the bar directly with the producer's aging and selection practices. The conversion moved a hotel cocktail room born from Maybourne's 2020 American expansion into a specialist concept built around one luxury ingredient and the technical expertise of its producer.
Compressed watermelon gives the contemporary tasting sequence its sharpest contrast, pairing mezcal with powdered lime and N25 Hybrid Caviar so cool fruit, smoke, acidity and saline roe register in succession. A truffled deviled egg takes the caviar toward a richer foundation, placing the same Hybrid selection over egg and truffle essence before the tasting shifts toward seasoned salmon. That fish forms the center of the Schrenkii N25 Caviar Burger, joined by horseradish and apple remoulade so the roe's salinity lands against oily salmon, pungency and crisp fruit. Oysters broaden the marine progression through both Eastern and Pacific selections; the En Gelée preparation combines sake and green apple, and the Rockefeller treatment builds weight through confit fennel, creamed spinach and aged Parmesan. Vanilla ice cream supplies the deliberate inversion at the end, carrying sea salt, olive oil and caviar across a cold sweet base that places the roe outside its conventional savory setting. Billecart-Salmon Champagne accompanies the omakase structure, using acidity and effervescence across preparations that move caviar through fruit, egg, fish, shellfish and dessert.
How The Maybourne Bar fits.
The Maybourne Bar works as the anchor for a Beverly Hills outing connecting the city's earliest great residential estate, a women's organization embedded in its formative civic culture and a Catholic parish whose history became unusually intertwined with Hollywood.
Begin at Virginia Robinson Gardens, where Harry Winchester Robinson and Virginia Dryden Robinson developed an estate during Beverly Hills' first years as a planned community. Harry purchased the hillside parcel from Burton Green for $7,500 in January 1911 after the couple encountered the undeveloped landscape during an evening drive. Virginia's father, Nathaniel Dryden, designed the residence, and the 6,000-square-foot house was completed that September when the surrounding area remained dominated by open fields. The property evolved for decades under Virginia Robinson through the work of landscape practitioners including Charles Gibbs Adams, Benjamin Morton Purdy and Morgan Evans, alongside generations of gardeners from the Boggio and Benedetti families. Botanical experimentation eventually spread across gardens ranging from formal Italianate compositions to a dense palm collection, leaving a residential landscape inseparable from Beverly Hills' earliest development. Continue to Beverly Hills Women's Club, founded in 1916 and mobilized as a Red Cross unit during the First World War before incorporating in California in 1921. The organization purchased three lots on Chevy Chase Drive in 1923, joined the General Federation of Women's Clubs the following year and commissioned George Gable and Stanley Wyant to create its permanent clubhouse. A 1925 horse show attended by Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, Cecilia DeMille, Alphonzo Bell and other prominent residents raised $4,000 toward the project. Gable and Wyant completed the Spanish Colonial Revival building that year, giving the organization a purpose-built home for cultural programs and civic activity. Amelia Earhart later appeared there in 1935 in support of an independent Beverly Hills school district, extending the clubhouse's role beyond private sociability into public advocacy. Conclude at Church of the Good Shepherd, founded on December 12, 1923 only nine years after Beverly Hills incorporated. Bishop John J. Cantwell appointed Father Michael J. Mullins as pastor and directed him to establish the Catholic Motion Picture Guild, drawing the developing film industry directly into parish life. Early Masses moved from the Windmere Apartments to a Camden Drive rectory and the Beverly Hills Hotel before James J. Donnellan's Mission Revival church was completed. Screen figures materially contributed to the building: May McAvoy donated an $11,000 Wurlitzer pipe organ, Ben Turpin supplied $8,000 for pews and Jackie Coogan provided stained-glass windows. Bishop Cantwell formally dedicated the church on February 1, 1925, beginning a Hollywood connection later extending through parishioners including Gene Kelly, Loretta Young, Rosalind Russell, Danny Thomas and Bob Newhart. The progression moves from a pioneering private estate shaping Beverly Hills' residential culture through women-led civic organization and culminates in a parish where the young city's religious institutions became directly entangled with the emerging motion-picture industry.
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