"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 [...]
For more than 20 years, my dad, Howard Johnson, owned a very popular restaurant on the Upper Westside of Manhattan called the Cellar. The Cellar was a special place and at the time of its inception in 1973, there were very few, if any, black-owned restaurants outside of Harlem below 110th street. Ironically, my father [...]
Brad- Where were you born? Hal: I was born in New York City. B: What was the first restaurant you liked going to? H: My family used to go to the theater and then to the Horn & Hardart Automat. It was the first food I’d had that wasn’t my Mom’s. H&H was hot shit when [...]
"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]
