The Story

Working side-by-side for over a decade, we launched the original Searsucker and Herringbone venues, building the Fabric of Social Dining restaurant group, which we sold to Hakkasan in 2012. Since then, we’ve been not-so-quietly building our empire here in Southern California, starting with the award-winning Herb & Wood in 2016. Proven fine-dining operators, our portfolio has expanded to include Herb & Sea in the coastal community of Encinitas, ANIMAE in Downtown San Diego, and Herb & Ranch in Orange County’s Irvine Company’s UCI Research Park.

Approached by Irvine Company and Alexandria Real Estate Equities, we applied our years of hospitality and culinary experience to create a new standard of amenity project. Originally single-use luncheonettes, we made business parks cool again through design, quality of food, and marketing prowess, we transformed these spaces. Newly imagined, we provided lunch and happy hour service geared toward office tenants offered fully- catered corporate events and meetings during off-hours, hosted over 50 luxury weddings per year, all while becoming one of the city’s most sought-after Sunday brunch reservations.

Each of our concepts boasts an impressive range of culinary and design expertise and appeals to a wide variety of potential consumers. From theatrical fine dining to food halls and business parks, we take pride in tailoring our projects to match any type of space and client relationship.