"In life, you very rarely get second chances, and in a restaurant even less so," Jeremy Fox told Eater LA this month, explaining why Birdie G's is back. His Santa Monica restaurant closed at the end of 2025. It has now reopened inside Fairmont Century Plaza at 2025 Avenue of the Stars.

Birdie G's is the third sit-down restaurant to open in Century City this year, after Very Thai in March and Rumi's Kitchen in September. All three came from somewhere else: Santa Monica, Atlanta and Taiwan. Each also covers a different part of the day at a different price. Taken together, they give someone living or working near Avenue of the Stars a new place to sit down at almost any hour between early coffee and a late dinner.

Birdie G's opens before the office towers fill

The Santa Monica Birdie G's served dinner only. The Century City version, Eater reported, opens at 6 a.m. for coffee, serves breakfast and lunch from 6:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., and runs dinner from 5:30 to 9:30 p.m. Its OpenTable page shows daily hours of 6:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. and puts the restaurant in the $31 to $50 band. Check that page before an early or late visit.

Here is how the menu changes through the day, based on Eater's preview:

• Breakfast: Birdie's muesli with banana and apple, a cornbread waffle with sweet pepper jam, koji-marinated steak and eggs, and a smoked fish platter.
• Lunch: a corned beef Reuben on Bub & Grandma's bread, the gluten-free Pickle Chick, cauliflower kugel, and steak frites in three sizes from 8 to 28 ounces.
• Dinner: most of the lunch dishes, plus the returning Hangtown Brei with fried oyster and pork belly, a new rotisserie chicken, and the rose petal pie that looks like stained glass.

Fox calls the food "bubbe cuisine," a style built around "no-nonsense, bare-bones, straight-to-the-point cooking," according to the same Eater LA piece. The dining room looks nothing like the rest of the hotel's neutral stone. Fox designed it with EDG Design: burnt-mustard banquettes, plaid bar stools, triangular wallpaper, and walls hung with vintage magazine covers, including a 1987 Sports Illustrated. Former Birdie G's bar director Stephanie Redding is consulting on drinks.

Fairmont Century Plaza's announcement said Lumière, the hotel's existing restaurant, would close in March for renovations ahead of Birdie G's debut. The hotel describes the new restaurant as "the new cornerstone" of its dining program. The plan was originally a second location. Fox first spoke with the hotel in June 2025, before it was clear the Bergamot Station restaurant would close.

Three new rooms, three price bands

Birdie G's covers the morning. The two newer restaurants at Westfield Century City cover different budgets. OpenTable places each one in a different price band:

All three take reservations through OpenTable. Westfield's listings and the booking pages don't always show the same service blocks, so the booking page is the one to trust.

Rumi's Kitchen holds the late table

Rumi's Kitchen is the most expensive of the three and stays open the latest. Eater LA reported that the Persian restaurant opened Wednesday, September 23. It comes from chef Ali Mesghali, who founded it in Atlanta with Maryam Tabassian, still the restaurant's design director.

The restaurant's site describes a rooftop dining area styled as a Persian garden, cooking over live fire and charcoal, a cocktail list built on Persian ingredients, and wines that include Middle Eastern bottles. Eater's list of dishes to order includes lamb lahmajun, kibbeh nayyeh, Chilean sea bass and wagyu kebabs, gormeh sabzi, duck fesenjoon, and pomegranate short rib. On Friday and Saturday it serves until 11 p.m., the latest of any of this year's arrivals. On a mild November evening, the rooftop is the obvious choice for a long dinner without leaving the neighborhood.

Very Thai is the easy weeknight table

Very Thai opened first and is the least expensive. It took over the former California Pizza Kitchen space at the mall. It is the first U.S. restaurant from Taiwan's Tai Tong Food and Beverage Group, founded by Charles Hsu, according to Eater LA. Westfield lists the room at 5,000 square feet with 131 seats, a full bar and a private dining room.

OpenTable's guide to the restaurant names shrimp mooncake as the signature starter. It also recommends green curry chicken wings, pork jowl, red massaman curry prime ribs, grilled branzino, and the master chef pad Thai. The guide describes the room as semi-al-fresco, with wide windows that open. Reservations are released daily at midnight for the next 30 days, which matters most for weekend group dinners.

The mall keeps adding reasons to stop by

The restaurants are part of a broader run of new tenants at Westfield Century City, and two more open this Friday, November 6.

1. Olive Young, the Korean beauty retailer, opened June 13 in a 2,694-square-foot store on the third floor, #2897. It carries skincare, cosmetics, fragrance, supplements and snacks, according to Uncover LA.
2. On, the Swiss sportswear brand, opened a 3,500-square-foot store on October 16, according to the company. It sells footwear and apparel for running, tennis, training and everyday wear.
3. ONE PIECE MUGIWARA STORE LA is scheduled to open Friday on Level 2. It will be the first U.S. Mugiwara Store, a partnership between Toei Animation and Sony Group Corporation. Crunchyroll reported that it will offer Los Angeles-exclusive merchandise, animation artwork, in-store video and an interactive "Surfer Chopper."
4. Taco Bell's Live Más Café is also planned for Friday, per The Mercury News. The format focuses on drinks, with a horchata menu that includes a Purple Horchata Chiller and a Chocolate Horchata Cold Brew Float. Drinks cost about $4.19 to $4.59, and the regular Taco Bell food menu is also served.

Both Friday openings were announced dates when this post went up. The Westfield directory is the quickest way to check before heading over.

Getting here will change in 2027

Today, reaching any of these tables still means driving, walking or taking a rideshare. Metro's October 2026 project presentation forecasts that the D Line's second section, including the Century City/Constellation station, will begin service in spring 2027, a date Metro says could change. The underground station runs along Constellation Boulevard from Century Park East to Avenue of the Stars.

Whether you're choosing a place for a 7 a.m. meeting over coffee or a rooftop dinner for visiting family, I'm always glad to share what's new around Century City and the neighborhoods nearby. If you'd like a local perspective, Marshall Peck is a message away. Let's Connect.