[EDITOR'S NOTE: Just days after this article published, Renaud's stopped serving dinner at the Montecito location, choosing to focus on breakfast and lunch.]
If you think of the Coast Village Plaza complex as a sort of mall, it now features two anchor tenants, with Khao Kheng (somehow even better than sister restaurant Empty Bowl) on the west end and Renaud’s on the east. That’s especially true since the latter began serving dinner right before the New Year. “Guests have been asking me for dinner service for a really, really long time,” says founder Renaud Gonthier. “And I wanted to give it a shot.”
As anyone who’s savored Renaud’s pastries knows, dinner would have to be delightfully, deliciously French. “We keep it always very simple,” he explained. “It’s bouillabaisse; it’s hanger steak; it’s snails in garlic butter. I’m not reinventing the wheel here.”
