"Following the sale of its original building, one of L.A.'s most legendary Chinese restaurants closed its doors in May. But Genghis Cohen is now reopened in a new space, with an even more elaborate dining room and new dishes and cocktails. It's also still on the same street, just a few blocks farther south. The fabled New York-style Chinese American restaurant serving stir-fries, tropical drinks and house specialties like the "Kanton Knish" hosted some of the world's most famous celebrities and generations of Angelenos in its roughly 40-year run"
"Owners Marc Rose and Med Abrous said they were unable to renegotiate Genghis Cohen's lease after years of attempts with the building's new owners, and devised a plan: reopen elsewhere in the neighborhood, first with takeout, then with dine-in service. "We have been working our tails off to find a solution, and I believe that we found the best possible solution to a real crappy situation that we were put in," Rose told The Times earlier this year."
Following the sale of its original building, one of Los Angeles's legendary Chinese restaurants closed in May and has now reopened a few blocks south on Fairfax in a new space. The restaurant rebuilt a more elaborate dining room featuring even more neon, color, red paper lanterns and the return of its dragon, plus a circle-cut fish tank embedded in the wall above a larger bar. Owners Marc Rose and Med Abrous were unable to renegotiate the original lease and reopened first with delivery from the former Sweet Chick space at 448 N. Fairfax Ave., then resumed dine-in service. The menu includes new tropical cocktails and a weekend-only late-night bar-bites menu.
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