Restaurants & Bars
The Palm Beverly Hills Closes After Post-Pandemic Sales Slump
The iconic power-lunch steakhouse has closed amid economic pressures and sales that never recovered after the pandemic, its owners said.
BEVERLY HILLS, CA — The Palm Beverly Hills, the long-running steakhouse and power lunch spot, has permanently closed after failing to recover from a post-pandemic sales slump, its owner told Patch.
The Palm earned a reputation as a classic American steakhouse after opening on Santa Monica Boulevard in West Hollywood in 1975. In a nod to its status as a power-lunch hotspot, the restaurant featured caricatures of celebrities and other entertainment power brokers throughout the space.
The WeHo location — one of several throughout the county — closed and was reborn on Canon Drive in Beverly Hills in 2014. A contentious family court battle in 2020 that included a bankruptcy and lawsuit among the family ownership led to a sale of the chain to restaurant group Landry’s, which also owns Del Frisco’s and Morton’s.
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"We acquired The Palm restaurants out of bankruptcy during the beginning of the Covid pandemic in 2020. The economy, competition and COVID primarily impacted The Palm Beverly Hills location and sales never recovered," a Landry's representative told Patch.
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