Bootsy Bellows, the Sunset Strip Nightclub, Becomes Little Luck Izakaya

The group behind The Nice Guy and Delilah swapped its decade-old club at 9229 W. Sunset Blvd. for its first Japanese restaurant.

For more than a decade, 9229 W. Sunset Blvd. was where David Arquette put on puppet shows inside a nightclub he named for his mom, who'd worked as a burlesque dancer and pinup model, according to WEHOonline. That club, Bootsy Bellows, is gone. In its place is Little Luck, a Japanese restaurant, and it's my pick this week.

It's an in-house switch. The h.wood Group, which co-owned Bootsy Bellows with Arquette, announced in April that the space would become the company's first Japanese restaurant, WEHOonline reported. Eater LA wrote up the new izakaya on Oct. 20. It opened Monday, Oct. 19, with chef Erik Idos, who has cooked at Per Se, Jean-Georges and Nobu, Eater LA reported.

The reason to go now isn't a dish. It's the bet. The company that made the clubstaurant a West Hollywood habit is pitching a room where dinner shares the bill with the DJ booth, and the first weeks are when you find out whether it means it.

The Infatuation called that shift early. In a Sept. 23 preview, written before anyone there had eaten at the place, The Infatuation said Little Luck looked as "posh and glam" as the group's other spots but seemed to lean "toward a destination restaurant rather than a club." It also predicted a big draw from the Soho House crowd across the street.

The people behind it know this stretch cold. John Terzian and Brian Toll started h.wood in 2008, and its West Hollywood map already includes Delilah, The Nice Guy, Bird Streets and Harriet's at the 1 Hotel West Hollywood, according to WEHOonline. Toll said, as quoted by WEHOonline, that the company picked neighborhoods where locals wanted "elevated dining concepts," which is press-release talk for a promise the kitchen still has to keep.

It also arrives months after West Hollywood lost Ta-Ke Sushi, which WEHOonline noted closed April 5.

Fair warning: what's known so far is the menu on paper and the team, not how it eats. This pick doesn't come from a meal, and the call on the food belongs to the first critics who sit down and name a dish. Until then, Little Luck is for the table that wants dinner and a DJ in the same room on the Strip, and for anyone curious whether the Delilah crowd can make you remember what you ate.

The club ran more than a decade on a burlesque dancer's name. The restaurant went with a name that sounds like it knows exactly what it's asking for.

Source: wehoonline.com, retrieved October 21, 2026. Other sources: theinfatuation.com.