Sous Sous Turned a 1931 Silver Lake Church Into a Restaurant

The De La Nonna team's menu runs Espelette-rimmed oysters, hush puppies and a coconut-infused Sazerac, on Griffith Park Boulevard.

A Presbyterian church built in 1931 at Lucile Avenue and Griffith Park Boulevard in Silver Lake now serves dinner in its chapel. Sous Sous, from the De La Nonna team, opened there on Monday, September 14, 2026, inside the 25-room Hotel Lucile, Eater LA reported.

Dinner runs 5 to 9 p.m. Sunday through Thursday and an hour later on Friday and Saturday, with tables bookable through Resy. Show up without one and you're working a four-hour window most nights, in a building whose rooftop deck is reserved for people sleeping upstairs.

The gamble Casetta Hotels took here isn't French cooking with Southern hospitality bolted on. It's handing a restored chapel to the crew behind a pizza patio and asking them to cook like a hotel dining room, which is a different job with a different clock. Casetta spent six years on the building, Eater LA reported, and hired chef Patrick Costa and operations and beverage director Lee Zaremba to fill it.

Costa's menu reads like a man who knows he'll be cooking it for a year. Oysters come with an Espelette pepper rim and a seasonal mignonette; hush puppies arrive with honey butter and a serrano chile; the eight-ounce Le Burg does caramelized onions, cheddar and Dijonnaise on a toasted potato bun. The farmers market side of it — roasted carrots with pomegranate glaze, sunchoke risotto, zucchini carpaccio with burrata — is where the seasons are allowed in. The anchors mostly stay put, with light updates through the year. “The menu has refreshing elements to it,” Costa told Eater LA.

That fixed-menu plan bothered me for about a paragraph. A restaurant that sells California produce and then promises the same dishes in February is hedging. Then again, a hotel restaurant that changes its mind every six weeks is a hotel restaurant nobody can rely on at 8 p.m. on a Tuesday, and reliability is the product. I'd order the hush puppies, the Le Burg, and the Sazerac riff Zaremba builds from rye infused with toasted coconut.

The room will do most of the selling, and that's the fair objection: stained-glass windows restored, arches, jeweled tones, antiques, custom banquettes and an upstairs lounge looking down on the floor, designed by Venice's Electric Bowery. The bar itself is shaped like a church organ, high arch and all. Build that and you've built a photograph.

What cuts against the set-dressing read is what the team subtracted. They closed Let's Go Disco, the bar next to De La Nonna, and are pointing themselves at projects like this one instead of nightlife, Eater LA reported. Zaremba's wine list is mostly French and weighted toward small producers. “We get to expand people's expectations of us,” he told the outlet.

Two comparisons worth holding. This is the second time Casetta has hired these two — the first was De La Nonna's Big Bear location inside the refurbished Hotel Marina Riviera in 2025 — so the chapel isn't a debut, it's a promotion. And the California-French thing is a crowd right now: Eater LA wrote up Marée, a French-California bistro above the Michelin-starred Lielle, on September 2, 2026. Sous Sous's edge in that crowd is Old Bay on a tequila drink and chicory in the espresso martini.

It's for the Friday two-top that wants a bouillabaisse and a cocktail in a building with a past, and for anyone who's watched that corner behind scaffolding since 2020. The address is 1629 Griffith Park Boulevard, Silver Lake 90026. Book ahead.

Source: la.eater.com, retrieved September 20, 2026.