"The objective is not to skirt tradition but to give it a tuneup, with dishes that “show that it can be contemporary without losing the authenticity,” said Brad Johnson, the restaurateur behind Post & Beam and Willie Jane. If any dish at Willie Jane represents the new wave, it’s Mr. Armstrong’s vegan crab cakes, in [...]
Fighting Los Angeles’ 'food desert' epidemic A growing number of communities nationwide have limited access to healthy foods For the first time in U.S. history, American children may have shorter lifespans than their parents – and the rise in obesity may be a significant factor. Experts say that the increasing number of communities living in [...]
"Brad Johnson has come a long way since his teenage days working as a busboy and dishwasher at his dad's popular New York City restaurant, The Cellar. Today, the second-generation restaurateur is the owner of two Los Angeles restaurants, Post & Beam and Willie Jane. Those are just his latest foodie hotspots..." [button link="https://postandbeamla.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/09-20151.pdfBlack-Enterprise1.pdf"]Read More[/button] [...]
"A man of many pursuits, Brad Johnson has opened foodie hot spots and clubs on both coasts. You might credit the fact that he’s dinner-club royalty, the kin of New York restaurateur Howard Johnson, who owned the star-studded Upper West Side restaurant the Cellar in the 70s." [button link="https://postandbeamla.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Vanity-Fair-041513.pdf"]Read More[/button]
"Looking at its mid-century modern architecture, open kitchen with wood-burning oven and stylish outdoor patio and garden, it may be hard to believe that the two-year-old Post & Beam restaurant used to be the site of a fried chicken spot." [button link="https://postandbeamla.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Essence-Fresh-Coast-Cuisine-Oct-2014.pdf"]Read More[/button]
"Any long-time Angeleno can tell you, the term "community" is one of this city's more bedeviling concepts. It's a catch-all and a euphemism; a designation that is as vague as it is deliberate. Restaurateur Brad Johnson has been circulating L.A. long enough to know that real community here -- a tangible one -- is not [...]
"If you follow restaurants in Los Angeles, you have known about Govind Armstrong since he was a teenage prodigy on the line at the original Spago. In Venice, his Willie Jane is the most accomplished Southern dining room in town. But it is probably Post & Beam where you find Armstrong at his best" [button [...]
"After opening its doors more than two years ago in the Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaze, widely considered the pulse of Los Angeles's African American community, Post & Beam is still going strong, packing in its neighbors as well as stars like Denzel Washington." [button link="https://postandbeamla.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Post-Beam-Uptown-June-2014.pdf"]Read More[/button]
"Foodies tend to move like flocks of birds, swarming a chic eatery, and then — swoop — off to the next. One of their newer perches in Los Angeles is in a part of town that hasn't had much of the food spotlight. Post & Beam opened on New Year's Eve in Baldwin Hills, an [...]
"Dressed in stucco and wood, Post & Beam could be a prototype for a new line of restaurants by a big operator like Houston’s. But the interior is too personal, too idiosyncratic for that." [button link="https://postandbeamla.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/LA-Magazine-April-2012.pdf"]Read More[/button]
