Nancy Silverton Says Her Palisades Steakhouse Helped Some Neighbors Decide to Rebuild

Spacca Tutto, her Italian steakhouse with Rick Caruso, is now serving Chi Spacca's Focaccia di Recco and dry-aged steaks at Palisades Village.

Nancy Silverton says more than a handful of Pacific Palisades residents have stopped her with the same story about whether to rebuild.

"We were on the fence about rebuilding our house, and when we heard that you were opening a restaurant, we decided to rebuild," is how she recounted it to the Palisadian-Post. That restaurant, Spacca Tutto, an Italian steakhouse at Palisades Village, opened Thursday, the date the restaurant's website had set, and Eater LA reported Friday that it's open.

It's her first restaurant in the Palisades, the Post reported, a joint effort of Mozza Restaurant Group, New School Hospitality and Caruso Restaurant Group. It joins Alphabet Bar & Grill, new to the village since August, and three neighbors that came back: Angelini Ristorante & Bar, Porta Via and Blue Ribbon Sushi.

The idea is older than the fire. Rick Caruso, the developer behind Palisades Village, and Silverton had talked about doing a restaurant there, the Post reported, but Osteria Mozza, Pizzeria Mozza, Mozza2Go and Chi Spacca ate up her time. Once the fire hit, she told the Post, getting a chance to be part of the rebuild was something she was honored to take.

Caruso's ask, according to the Post, was a neighborhood place people eat at several times a week, not a special-occasion room. Silverton's definition of a steakhouse fits that: "a large menu with a lot of choices and familiar food," she told the Post.

Then there's the bill. OpenTable lists Spacca Tutto at $50 and over, and The Infatuation, which put it on its radar Thursday while saying it hadn't been yet, gives it four dollar signs. Nobody turns into a several-times-a-week regular on Wagyu. I'd watch the lunch panini instead: if the neighborhood-restaurant part works, that's where it shows up first.

The one dish to know is the Focaccia di Recco, the cheesy flatbread carried over from Chi Spacca that the Post describes as crispy and delicate. The Post says the steaks run from Australian Wagyu to an older Kansas porterhouse, and Mozza Restaurant Group adds a choice of butters and steak sauces. There's that lunchtime dry-aged hanger steak panini, plus Nancy's burger, and the bar leans on martinis, negronis and Italian and California wine.

Even the name is a pep talk. Silverton told the Post that "spacca tutto" loosely means "tear it up" or "go get 'em," a nod to the neighborhood's grit. The "spacca" points back to Chi Spacca, her wood-fire and butchery spot on Melrose Avenue, and the "tutto" signals a menu of its own.

AvroKO designed the room, which has 108 seats split between the dining room and a covered patio, along with travertine, dark wood, a central bar and a hand-painted botanical mural, according to the Post. Spacca Tutto sits at 15255 Palisades Village Lane and serves lunch from 11:30 a.m. and dinner from 5 p.m. every day, according to its website, with reservations on OpenTable.

Silverton takes those rebuilding stories as proof of something bigger than a steakhouse. "If I'm coming here and I'm willing to commit to the community, then that community must still have life in it," she told the Post.

Source: palipost.com, retrieved October 17, 2026. Other sources: the Spacca Tutto website, opentable.com, theinfatuation.com, mozzarestaurantgroup.com.