FoodGPS broke the news today that the District-approved Tracht’s inside the Renaissance Hotel will be losing Suzanne Tracht, she of Jar and also Top Chef Masters. District contributor Kevin Ferguson called over to the restaurant for a little clarity, only to be told that “nothing is changing.” When he asked about Chef Tracht’s departure, he [...]

Per our previous blog here, Top Chef Masters will premiere tomorrow pitting some of the nation’s best chefs against each other for charity. Suzanne Tracht (of Tracht’s, logically) will be competing and Yelp has the word on a viewing party at the Ocean Blvd. restaurant. Go for happy hour specials and discounted appetizers. Details are here.

Eater is out with the details on Bravo’s upcoming series Top Chef Masters, a kind of Iron Chef meets Top Chef hybrid that pits famous chefs from around the country in charitable, chefly competition. Among the contestants are TV regulars Rick Bayless, John Besh, Wylie Dufresne and others. LA is well-represented by the likes of [...]

Suzanne Tracht brings her classics to town

TRACHT’S by ROSHEILA ROBLES
The menu posted outside Tracht’s reads a lot like something you might find at a basement pot luck: steaks, roasts, deviled eggs, puddings. But anyone who has eaten at Jar—Chef Suzanne Tracht’s tremendously popular LA restaurant, from which her Ocean Boulevard chophouse was spun off—knows that [...]