In a surprise announcement, Jeff Orbin, Aaron Teitelbaum, and Gabe Grossberg just issued a release saying they’re closing Monarch, a nine-year staple–no, it was really the anchor–of the Maplewood ...

Editor's Note: Four weeks ago, Relish reported on a marketing experiment taking place at Monarch restaurant during the month of January, where customers pay full price for beverages but a potentially ...

With a royal moniker like Monarch Restaurant and a chef named Bradley Manchester, you might expect this place to be serving steak and kidney pie, bangers and mash and some nice trifle for afters.

Humberto Leon wants to let you in on a secret. The Opening Ceremony cofounder turned restaurateur is opening Monarch, a restaurant in the San Gabriel Valley, known for being a hub for excellent Asian ...

In his decades as a fashion designer, Humberto Leon sought to highlight the works of other artists and cultures in a career marked by collaboration and creativity. At Chifa, his family’s restaurant in ...

There is nothing lite about chef Jonathan Jones, a big guy with an outsize persona and a prodigious talent. Nothing, that is, except his stamp on the menu at Monarch, the restaurant at Hotel Zaza. The ...

Oh, to have been a fly on the wall during menu-planning sessions for the Monarch restaurant. Every time I visit the velvety, chandelier-lit fine-dining venue at the new Hotel ZaZa, I wonder what ...