Ninety-nine years after the French dining institution was founded in Downtown Los Angeles, Taix restaurant will close its doors on Sunset Boulevard for the last time on March 29. The sprawling Echo Park landmark could accommodate over 400 diners and was a longtime favorite for banquets, celebratory dinners and milestone parties. Owner Mike Taix sold his family’s land in Echo Park to Washington-based developer Holland Group in 2019.
To the untrained eye, Holland has built nearly identical five and six-story apartment buildings up and down the West Coast. Their L.A. projects tend to be larger, with towering luxury apartments Downtown, in Koreatown and replacing the old K-Mart at 3rd & Ogden.
“My profits year by year have been going down,” Taix told the Los Angeles Times soon after selling the site, including its vast parking lot, for $12 million in 2019. He has remained as a tenant ever since, still dishing up French classics like Duck à l’orange and Tourte de Volaille.
The restaurant was successfully nominated as a Historic-Cultural Monument six years ago, but protection from that listing was undone by Councilmember Mitch O’Farrell. His intervention stripped the designation down to some exterior signage and an interior wooden bar top.
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