Why The Terrace matters.
The Terrace is a garden-facing Californian restaurant where Golden Triangle meets European piazza architecture, contemporary Los Angeles art and all-day dining framed by one of the city's most carefully composed public gardens.
Set along North Cañon Drive near Clifton Way and just east of Beverly Drive, the restaurant occupies the garden level of The Maybourne Beverly Hills between the Golden Triangle's retail blocks and the landscaped civic corridor running through Beverly Cañon Gardens. White parasols extend across the principal outdoor dining area beside clipped greenery and the garden's cascading fountain. A vaulted colonnade creates a shaded transition between exterior tables and an indoor dining room organized around curved banquettes and a large mural by Silver Lake artist Jessalyn Brooks. Lemon trees and broad arches soften the patio's masonry edges as tables continue along the building's garden frontage. The result is an unusually open hotel restaurant whose sequence of dining room, colonnade, terrace and public greenery makes the surrounding landscape a physical extension of the restaurant.
What defines The Terrace.
The Terrace is best known for becoming the culinary centerpiece of Maybourne Hotel Group's first North American property after the British luxury-hotel company acquired the former Montage Beverly Hills in August 2020. The restaurant inherited a hotel dining lineage previously associated with Scott Conant and Geoffrey Zakarian, then entered a comprehensive renovation as Maybourne transformed the property for its American debut. PHX Architecture, led on the project by architect Erik Peterson, handled the architectural conversion of the restaurant as part of the wider transition from Montage to Maybourne. Kaleo Adams became the opening culinary figure of the new era, bringing a career that began at Nagasako Fish Market in Maui and later passed through The Ritz-Carlton on Nob Hill, The Beverly Hills Hotel and Santa Monica Proper. The Terrace opened under Adams with a California-focused approach that connected the British group's hospitality lineage to Southern California produce and the restaurant's garden setting. Leadership changed again when British-born Damon Gordon joined The Maybourne after more than two decades in professional kitchens, including executive-chef appointments at The Ivy in London and Fairmont Miramar Hotel & Bungalows in Santa Monica. Gordon expanded the culinary direction toward Southern France, northern Spain, Italy and selected Southeast Asian influences, with farmers-market sourcing forming the California counterweight to those European foundations. His responsibilities subsequently grew beyond the restaurant into leadership across the property's food-and-beverage operation, placing The Terrace within a larger culinary program that has included chef collaborations, ingredient-driven dinners and the hotel's developing collection of restaurants and bars. The restaurant's institutional history connects three distinct chapters, the Montage dining era, Maybourne's 2020 American expansion and successive chef-led programs under Adams and Gordon, within the same Beverly Hills property.
Spring pea gnocchi concentrates Damon Gordon's seasonal approach into a preparation where the sweetness of peas meets the soft density of handmade pasta, translating a farmers-market ingredient into a European form. Corn agnolotti takes that pasta program toward greater richness through black truffle, chanterelles, chives and Parmesan, setting sweet corn against earthy fungi and aged cheese. Charcoal-grilled prawns move the kitchen onto live fire, with saffron aioli carrying the shellfish toward Mediterranean flavors as smoke supplies the preparation's darker edge. Whole branzino keeps that direct grilling treatment focused on the fish itself before heirloom tomatoes contribute acidity and ripe sweetness alongside the charred skin. Puglian burrata works in the opposite register, pairing the cheese's cool creaminess with California citrus, Castelvetrano olives and pistachio vinaigrette so fruit acidity, saline olive and nutty fat continually alter the dairy's richness. Gordon's cooking at The Terrace builds its strongest dishes around the exchange between European forms and Southern California produce, moving from handmade pasta through charcoal cooking and minimally manipulated dairy without forcing a single technique across ingredients that demand different treatment.
How The Terrace fits.
The Terrace works as the anchor for a Central Beverly Hills outing connecting a surviving commercial building from the city's formative decade, a church shaped by one of Southern California's important interwar architects and a technologically ambitious public fountain commissioned during Beverly Hills' Depression-era civic expansion.
Begin at Anderton Court Shops, Frank Lloyd Wright's final Los Angeles building and one of his comparatively rare commercial commissions. Completed in 1952 for Nina G. Anderton, the project placed several small retail spaces around an angular ramp that rises through the narrow Rodeo Drive site, turning circulation into the composition's principal architectural feature. Wright used concrete block, oxidized copper trim and a central light well to develop the vertical structure, compressing a multilevel shopping complex into a frontage dramatically smaller than his residential commissions. The building subsequently became part of Rodeo Drive's transformation from an ordinary commercial street into an international luxury-retail district, preserving a Wright design amid generations of later storefront construction. Continue to Church of the Good Shepherd, whose congregation began in 1923 before completing its permanent church during Beverly Hills' rapid interwar development. Architect Ralph Carlin Flewelling designed the Romanesque Revival sanctuary, bringing massive masonry forms, an arched entrance and a prominent rose window to the residential edge of the Golden Triangle. Flewelling's wider Southern California career included educational, religious and civic commissions, and his work in Beverly Hills soon extended into another of the city's defining public projects. The parish subsequently became closely associated with Hollywood's Catholic community, with funerals and services drawing figures from the film industry across successive generations. The church survives as an architectural marker of the period when Beverly Hills was converting extraordinary residential growth into permanent civic and religious institutions. Conclude at Electric Fountain, conceived during the late 1920s and dedicated in 1931 at the meeting of Wilshire and Santa Monica boulevards. Flewelling designed the fountain and sculptor Robert Merrell Gage created its central figure and relief work, placing a kneeling Native American figure above carved scenes relating to California history. The Beverly Hills Women's Club helped finance the installation, Sarah Elizabeth Lloyd, mother of silent-film star Harold Lloyd, contributed to the gift and the Rodeo Land and Water Company supplied the site. Colored illumination transformed the moving water into an early electrically programmed public performance, drawing traffic during its opening period. A major restoration completed in 2016 renewed its plumbing, sculptural surfaces and lighting. The progression moves from Frank Lloyd Wright compressing retail into an architectural ramp through Flewelling's ecclesiastical work and culminates in Flewelling and Gage combining sculpture, water and electric illumination for Beverly Hills' expanding civic landscape.
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