Hollywood's Petit Trois Serves a $44 Three-Course Lunch

The Highland Avenue bistro's added front patio seats double what its dining room does, so weeknight waits have eased.

Lunch at Petit Trois, the French bistro on North Highland Avenue in Hollywood, runs $44 for three courses. Beet salad under horseradish cream, then steak frites, then chocolate mousse served in a small ramekin — those are the courses, per a review published September 18, 2026 by The Infatuation, which rated the restaurant 8.0. What those same dishes cost à la carte isn't folded into that $44.

That's dinner money spent at one in the afternoon, and the trade is a workday. Three courses, a drink if you want one, and a seat at a narrow dark-wood counter in a room people used to wait outside for.

Sylvio Martins, a senior staff writer at the outlet, wrote the review, and he puts the bar counter ahead of everything else in the building. Petit Trois L'Original has been open on Highland for about a decade, and the kitchen is small and open enough that you watch the cooks from your stool. There's a second, roomier location in Sherman Oaks.

The famous plate is the Big Mec, a double cheeseburger under bordelaise made with bone marrow. Martins writes that it draws about as many detractors as fans, and that ordering one solo is a mistake: "Eating one is a bucket list experience, but trying to finish one yourself is a terrible idea." Almost everybody splits it, the review says.

His own pick isn't the burger. It's the leeks fondant, chilled and sauced and drizzled with leek oil, which he calls "the menu's sleeper hit."

The rest of the list is straight bistro inventory, and the review treats it that way. French onion soup built on veal stock and sherry, under a lid of melted alpine cheese. Burgundy escargots in butter, garlic and parsley. Steak frites cut from a six-ounce wagyu steak, with béarnaise butter running into the fries. The Boursin-filled omelet, which the review notes turned up in an episode of "The Bear," is on the à la carte menu alongside a croque monsieur under blistered gruyère.

One thing has changed since the parking-lot years. L'Original covered the front and put in enough seats out there to double what the dining room holds, the review says, so getting a table on a weeknight isn't the gamble it was. Martins still argues for the counter anyway.

We read the review rather than the table. On The Infatuation's scale an 8 is the band the site describes as great and worth crossing town for, and looking at a $44 lunch with steak frites and mousse in it, I get the score.

Petit Trois is at 718 N. Highland Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90038; the phone is 323-468-8916. Lunch is the $44 route in.

Source: theinfatuation.com, retrieved September 21, 2026.