At Tower Bar, all the pieces outdated is new once more.
After six years of holding courtroom at Jeff Klein’s tony San Vicente Bungalows, Dimitri Dimitrov is departing this week to grow to be the most important domo of Tower Bar, the star-packed Hollywood eatery at Klein’s Sundown Tower Resort the place the legendary 75-year-old maître d’ first began working 20 years in the past.
“Dimitri performed an instrumental function in making Tower Bar what it’s, and the friends missed him terribly,” mentioned Klein. “Our regulars shall be thrilled that he’s again.”
These regulars embrace everybody from Jennifer Aniston to Tom Ford to Elon Musk. (Charmed by the dapper, Macedonian-born host, Musk talked him into shopping for a pile of Tesla inventory method again in 2010, a prescient transfer that finally turned Dimitri into L.A.’s first millionaire maître d’.)
“It’s not concerning the cash for me, clearly,” mentioned Dimitrov, who’s stepping in for departing Tower Bar host Geshie Wilmot. “It’s simply historic to return to be part of this landmark lodge. To be requested to do that, at my age — it’s simply unimaginable!”
Because it occurs, the star-struck septuagenerian can also be about to be the topic of an upcoming documentary that can chart his 40-year profession at a few of L.A’s most unique eating places and path him as he goes about his duties as Hollywood’s host-with-the-most. The undertaking is being directed by Grant Singer, son of pitbull Hollywood lawyer Marty Singer, who received to know Dimitrov as a baby whereas eating at Tower Bar along with his dad.
Klein, in the meantime, has been busily supervising the debut of two SVB offshoots, one in Santa Monica (slated to open in November) and the opposite in New York’s West Village, on the former Jane St. Resort, that’s scheduled to debut later this 12 months. Gabe Doppelt, SVB’s peripatetic membership empressario, shall be shifting to Manhattan subsequent month to supervise the Bungalows’ japanese enlargement, whereas maintaining shut tabs on all issues L.A.
“It’s been a little bit of a whirlwind,” admitted Klein of all of the musical chairs, “however someway we’re staying on prime of it!