Post & Beam, a destination restaurant for California comfort food in Baldwin Hills for 13 years, will close permanently at the end of February.
Post & Beam has been led since 2019 by chef John Cleveland and his wife, Roni Cleveland, and its closure comes as construction on the Baldwin Hills-Crenshaw plaza moves forward, with plans to redevelop the 42-acre shopping center with new retail stores, restaurants, office buildings, hotel rooms, apartments and homes.
“This whole neighborhood is about to go under development,” said John, who shared that Post & Beam received a notice from the mall that construction would begin this spring.
“When we took over the restaurant in 2019, they were planning on reconstructing it,” he said. “The plan’s always entailed Post & Beam being relocated and that current restaurant space not being there. So it’s not a huge shock to us, as much as it may seem.”…