San Vicente Bungalows will soon be offering a taste of the Amalfi Coast.
The private membership club, located in West Hollywood, alerted members via monthly newsletter of plans to welcome Lo Scoglio into the fold as a temporary pop-up, beginning as part of its “Sunday Supper” series on Oct. 22 and continuing that week, Oct. 23-24. The Hollywood Reporter obtained a copy of the newsletter that was distributed to members from a source. A representative for the club could not be reached for comment.
According to that intel, high-ranking members of the family business including owner and maître d’ Antonio de Simone and her chef brother Tommaso de Simone will fly over from their home base in Marina del Cantone, Nerano, to launch the pop-up. They won’t come alone, either, as they are said to be traveling with vegetables grown on the family farm and fish sourced from the Mediterranean that will be used to create dishes. At the Sunday Supper, guests will be able to dine “family style” at San Vicente Bungalows’ communal tables. The following Monday and Tuesday, chefs will remain in house and “serve up specials alongside our regular menu,” per the newsletter.
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The restaurant is already well known among the jet-set celebrity crowd. Oprah Winfrey was photographed this summer hopping off David Geffen’s luxury super yacht, the Rising Sun, for a meal at Lo Scoglio. Also pulling up a seat there more recently was Jennifer Lopez and her power manager Benny Medina. Lopez has also been spotted there in years past. Other guests over the years have included Bruce Springsteen, Rihanna, Elton John, David Beckham, Sofia Vergara and Joe Manganiello, LeBron James, Steven Spielberg and Kate Capshaw, Jason Statham and many more.
Neil Patrick Harris is also a fan. He wrote about it for his own newsletter, Wondercade, and interviewed Antonio. “Lo Scoglio’s magic lies not just in the exceptional food…but in its effortless sense of hospitality. The de Simone family has built a reputation as one of the best restaurants in the world by making an endless carousel of A-list guests feel like they aren’t the guest of honor, for once. Instead, it feels like you’ve been welcomed onto a very warm and large Italian family’s back porch,” Harris wrote. “The restaurant specializes in two things: produce grown on the various plots of land in the surrounding hills that make up the de Simone family farm, and whatever frutti di mare the restaurant’s fishermen pull out of the sea each morning.”
Those ingredients will soon be served at San Vicente Bungalows.
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