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Skip to content HomeStuart Patterson2023-02-20T10:50:04-05:00 POST & BEAM HOSPITALITY DIVERSE SOLUTIONS FOR ENTERTAINMENT AND HOSPITALITY Contact us Podcast Featured Projects POST & BEAM HOSPITALITY OFFERS A VARIETY OF SERVICES RANGING FROM HOSPITALITY CONSULTING AND DIVERSITY STRATEGY TO MEDIA CONTENT CREATION. Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on Spotify MAILING LIST KEEP UP WITH NEWS ABOUT UPCOMING GUESTS, SPECIAL OFFERS, AND OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST. Leave this field empty if you're human: SOCIAL CONNECTIONS PODCAST PULL UP A CHAIR TO THE CORNER TABLE FOR AN INSPIRING CONVERSATION WITH WELL-KNOWN RESTAURATEUR BRAD JOHNSON FROM A CAREER INSIDER’S VIEW— NO RESERVATIONS NEEDED. Audio Player https://postandbeamhospitality.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/CTT-New-Trailer-1.mp3 00:00 00:00 00:00 Use Up/Down Arrow keys to increase or decrease volume. FOOD + DRINK + CULTURE After years of lowering the velvet rope, pulling out chairs on both coasts for countless guests, and having innumerable face-to-face interactions with the public, Brad Johnson puts his conversational skills to use as the host of Corner Table Talk. Come sit at the corner table, that often-requested table providing both some degree of privacy and intimacy while affording an excellent vantage point of the room. Listen in as Brad and guests share insights, personal stories, and experiences in careers that run the gamut, including restaurants, bars, clubs, fashion, finance, publishing, journalism, activism, sports, and entertainment, highlighting their passion for business, social and cultural commentary. HOW WE MOVE Following the conversation with our guest, Ambassador Shabazz (eldest daughter of Malcolm X and Dr. Betty Shabazz), speaker, writer, and diplomat, spends a few moments unpacking the discussion and highlights some of the interesting people, places, and things that have her attention. SUBSCRIBE KEEP UP WITH NEWS ABOUT UPCOMING GUESTS, SPECIAL OFFERS, AND OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST. Leave this field empty if you're human: Executive Producers: Corner Table Media, a division of Post & Beam Hospitality LLC Music: Bryce Vine SOCIAL CONNECTIONS THE CORNER TABLE Musings, news and interviews, at the table, with Brad Johnson * OXFORD AMERICAN FEATURE: PEASANT FOOD * * OXFORD AMERICAN FEATURE: PEASANT FOOD By Stuart Patterson|2021-04-01T15:02:51-04:00April 1st, 2021| Peasant Food: Notes From a Life in Restaurants By Brad Johnson, Oxford American, April 2021 In 2013, in Venice Beach, my business partner chef Govind Armstrong and I opened Willie Jane, a Low Country [...] Read More 0 * BE A LEGEND: LINDA AND BRAD JOHNSON * * BE A LEGEND: LINDA AND BRAD JOHNSON By Stuart Patterson|2020-12-18T15:22:55-05:00December 17th, 2020| Hospitality Design with Guest Editor Venus Williams Family Business: The husband-and-wife founders of Post & Beam Hospitality have a flair for narrative Brad Johnson caught the design bug from his father. When Howard Johnson [...] Read More 0 * BLACK OWNED: PANDEMIC AND PROTESTS * * BLACK OWNED: PANDEMIC AND PROTESTS Assuming the answer would be an emphatic no, well-meaning friends called [...] * SIMPLY COMPLICATED * * SIMPLY COMPLICATED I met Bill Withers in 1999 at The Sunset Room in [...] * WARHOLS AND FRIED CHICKEN * * WARHOLS AND FRIED CHICKEN How does a Black teenager from rural South Carolina, daughter of [...] SERVICES HOSPITALITY CONSULTING CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT / BUSINESS PLAN AND FINANCIAL MODELLING / LOCATIONS / OPERATIONS CULTURAL DIVERSITY STRATEGY COMMUNITY OUTREACH / PUBLIC RELATIONS / MENTORING / OPERATIONS WRITING AND EDITORIAL HOSPITALITY / DIVERSITY / SOCIAL COMMENTARY PUBLIC SPEAKING AND MEDIA CONTENT INTERVIEWS / CULTURAL AWARENESS / TRANSITIONING NEIGHBORHOODS / PERSONAL NARRATIVE BRAD JOHNSON A 2nd generation restaurateur and hospitality entrepreneur, native New Yorker Brad Johnson has built a reputation owning and operating acclaimed restaurants, bars and clubs in New York, Los Angeles and Las Vegas. In the ‘90s, he made his Los Angeles debut with the lavish nightclub The Roxbury (yes, that Roxbury) and followed that up with the Melrose-avenue soulful hot spot Georgia. He’s been the driving force behind several high profile LA restaurants, most recently the James Beard semi-finalist for Best Restaurant, Post & Beam in Baldwin Hills, that was also awarded the prestigious Los Angeles Times Gold Award. The Gold Award is named for the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning food critic Jonathan Gold and which honors “culinary excellence and expanding the notion of what Southern California cooking might be. The award celebrates intelligence, innovation, brilliance, sensitivity to aesthetics, culture and the environment.” Johnson began his career at his father’s legendary restaurant, The Cellar on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, learning the business starting as a dishwasher, and eventually majored in Hotel Restaurant Management at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. With a passion for business, social, and cultural commentary, Johnson hosts the FOOD + DRINK + CULTURE focused podcast, “Corner Table Talk” and contributes his writing to various publications including Bon Appetit, Oxford American, Los Angeles Magazine, The James Beard Foundation and Eater LA as well as his blog, “The Corner Table”. PROJECTS SUNSET LOUNGE WEST PALM BEACH RESTORATION OF “CHITLIN ’ CIRCUIT” JAZZ CLUB Jan 2020 – Jul 2020 The City of West Palm Beach hired Johnson’s Post & Beam Hospitality firm to consult on the city’s $12.5 million restoration of a building that was a stop on the infamous “Chitlin’ Circuit” for the likes of Count Basie, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Ray Charles, Ike and Tina Turner and Ella Fitzgerald. The project, designed by international tennis star Venus Williams’ West Palm Beach-based design firm V Starr Interiors, in partnership with the Community Redevelopment Agency, is intended to catalyze the revitalization of the predominately African American Northwest Corridor. The Sunset Lounge is slated to open in the Fall of 2021. POST & BEAM LOS ANGELES SOUTHERN COMFORT, CALIFORNIA SOUL RESTAURANT Jul 2009 – Jun 2019 “In a landscape of the inevitable chain restaurants, Post & Beam stands out on all counts – a dedicated chef and solid farm-to-table cooking, sharp front of the house and warmly welcoming setting. Every neighborhood should be so lucky.” Irene Virbila, LA Times Food Critic Capri Capital Partners headed by Quintin Primo and Ken Lombard were charged with overseeing the repositioning of The Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza in South LA, one of the country’s oldest shopping centers and, at the time, a C-class mall. Lombard sought local entrepreneurs to reframe the experience, beginning with the addition of The Debbie Allen Dance Academy followed by approaching Johnson with the idea of opening a signature restaurant. The name “Post & Beam” was decided as a way to pay homage to the architectural style of the many mid-century homes populating the surrounding neighborhoods. Johnson recruited renowned chef and Inglewood native Govind Armstrong to join the team including his wife and business partner, Linda Ayles-Johnson, and hospitality veteran David Borrego. Pulitzer Prize, Los Angeles Times food editor Jonathan Gold wrote “The handsome, modernist restaurant in the Baldwin Hills Plaza may be the most ambitious restaurant ever to open in the Crenshaw District. If you want to understand the power structure of South Los Angeles, you could do worse than to eavesdrop over smoked-salmon hash and a Bloody Mary after church on a Sunday afternoon”. After operating for eight years, Johnson sold Post & Beam to its young African American chef John Cleveland, featured in a cover story in the LA Times. In 2020, Post & Beam received the 4th Annual LA Times Gold Award given annually “with the idea of honoring culinary excellence and expanding the notion of what Southern California cooking might be. The award celebrates intelligence and innovation, brilliance and sensitivity to aesthetics, culture and the environment.” * LA Times 2020 Gold Award Recipient (Jul 2020) * LA Times Food Section Cover Story “How Post & Beam, The Successful Black Owned South LA Restaurant, Stayed in Local Hands (Sep 2019) * NY Times Feature “A Belle Époque for African American Cooking” (Jan 2016) * LA Times “Jonathan Gold Best 101 Restaurants” (2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016) and LA Times “101 Essential Restaurants (2018) * Al Jazeera America Feature Story ”Fighting Los Angeles’ ‘Food Desert’ Epidemic” (Oct 2015) * Essence Feature Story “Fresh Coast Cuisine” (Oct 2014) * Eater LA “The 18 Biggest Openings of 2012” (Jan 2013) * Thrillist “Best New Restaurants 2012” (Dec 2012) * The Rundown “Best New Restaurants of 2012” (Dec 2012) * Zagat “Top 10 Hottest New Restaurants” (June 2012) WILLIE JANE LOS ANGELES LOW COUNTRY AND SOUTHERN RESTAURANT Jan 2012 – Dec 2017 Along with Chef Govind Armstrong, Johnson created and operated this restaurant and bar with an open air patio. Located on trendy Abbot Kinney Blvd in Venice (according to GQ Magazine, one of the coolest blocks in America) offering low country and southern fare with a modern twist. Sourcing fresh ingredients from our garden next door and developing a garden-to-glass artisanal drink program resulted in being named “Best Bar on Abbot Kinney”. * Thrillist “Best Chicken and Waffles in LA” (Jan 2015) * LA Weekly “Best Bar on Abbot Kinney 2014” (Oct 2014) * LA Times “Jonathan Gold Best 101 Restaurants” Mention (May 2014) “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.” * CBS “Best Fried Chicken in LA” (Jul 2014) * Travel + Leisure The Food Issue “Eating L.A.” (April 2014) “I’m here in LA to write about a dozen or so of the city’s best new restaurants.” * Gayot “The 25 Best Los Angeles Restaurants for Spring 2014” (Mar 2014) * Gayot “The Top 10 New & Notable Restaurants in Los Angeles” (Jun 2013) * Zagat “ LA’s 18 Hottest Openings of 2013” (June 2013) * Zagat “15 Best Restaurants in Venice” (Mar 2013) * LA Times “2013’s Best Recipes” Buttermilk Biscuits (Jan 2013) BLT STEAK LOS ANGELES NYC-BASED FINE DINING STEAKHOUSE Jan 2007 – Dec 2010 As West Coast Managing Partner, Johnson tracked and assisted in securing and licensing two prime restaurant locations for the BLT Group: Sunset Blvd for BLT Steak, a high-end steak restaurant; and Sunset and Vine for Go Burger, a burger concept. The BLT Steak site involved working with the City of West Hollywood to expand the existing conditional use permit for the original Le Dome restaurant to include the basement. Johnson was responsible for managing the overall operations of Chef Laurent Tourondel’s critically acclaimed modern American steakhouse, BLT Steak. * Angeleno Magazine, “Best New Restaurant” (August, 2008) * Los Angeles Magazine, “Best New Restaurants” (cover January 2009) WINDOWS RESTAURANT LOS ANGELES FINE DINING RESTAURANT AND EVENT VENUE Jan 2004 – Dec 2007 This 10,000 sq ft venue was located on the top floor of the AT&T tower in downtown Los Angeles. The building owned by an investor group including Magic Johnson, Ken Lombard, and Bobby Turner, included a restaurant, bar, and event space that was losing money when our group was hired. We developed and implemented a turnaround strategy to generate profitability and achieved double-digit growth and profitability year after year. MENEMSHA LOS ANGELES A NEW ENGLAND INSPIRED RESTAURANT Jan 2003 – Dec 2005 “The entrance is a patio sheltered by high walls and warmed by a stone fireplace and heat lamps. With its bar back lit in red and a massive stone fireplace at the far end of the room, the restaurant itself feels like a cozy lodge hunched against the elements. The walls are lined with knotty pine. A poster-size print of the colorful clay-streaked cliffs of Aquinnah reigns over the dining room…” LA Times food critic Irene S. Virbilia Johnson created and operated a New England inspired restaurant/bar and raw bar in Venice/Marina Del Rey. The pine wood-paneled venue’s cozy interior featured a fireplace and a blown-up aerial photograph of the famous multicolored clay cliffs of Aquinnah on Martha’s Vineyard. Boat captains chairs were converted to bar stools and a raw bar served fresh clams and oysters on the half-shell. The menu included lobster prepared several ways, baked Bluefish and Yankee Pot Roast sure to please any die-hard lover of New England cuisine. Authentic New England style split buns shipped from the East Coast piled high with fresh lobster introduced the lobster roll to a West Coast audience. Banana cream pie was offered for dessert, the recipe compliments of the legendary Ann Vanderhoop chef/owner of The Aquinnah Restaurant on the Vineyard. V BAR LAS VEGAS ULTRA LOUNGE IN THE VENETIAN HOTEL Jan 2000 – Dec 2015 Created in collaboration with New York-based hospitality veterans David Rabin and Will Regan along with Ark Restaurants, VBar located on the casino level in The Venetian Hotel, was at the front end of the trend of “ultra-lounges” in Las Vegas. Vbar ultimately had a successful 15-year run. * Conde Nast Traveller “Best Nightlife in Vegas” (2002) * City Search “Best Hotel Bar SUNSET ROOM LOS ANGELES HOLLYWOOD RESTAURANT AND NIGHTCLUB Jan 1999 – Dec 2002 As part of the concept development and operating team, we converted a 12,000 sq ft former camera shop into a restaurant and dance club. The Sunset Room was one of the first nightlife venues to lead the way in the revival of the Hollywood business district. The club attracted an A-list Hollywood crowd, hosted movie premieres, Grammy parties, and was selected as a location for Sex and The City for the episode filmed in Los Angeles. * Los Angeles Magazine, “LA’s Best New Restaurants” (August, 2000) GEORGIA LOS ANGELES AN UPSCALE SOUTHERN RESTAURANT Jan 1993 – Dec 1999 “There are soul-food restaurants, and then there is this place – elegant and upscale – where Madonna, Clint Eastwood and civil rights heroine Rosa Parks have dropped in for a bite of gumbo or grits.” Racial Hominy – People Magazine As the city of Los Angeles struggled to emerge from the post-Darryl Gates Police Chief era that culminated in the Rodney King case and its riotous aftermath, Johnson and a group of partners that included Norm Nixon, Denzel Washington and Lou Adler made plans to open an upscale southern restaurant on Melrose Avenue. Aware of the balancing act required to accomplish attracting a diverse customer, Johnson again sought to create an investor group and staff reflective of the intended market. As a trailblazing establishment, Georgia made the list of Esquire and Bon Appetit’s “Best New Restaurants” nationally and became a major restaurant, receiving international media coverage, hosting Oscar Parties, and serving countless boldface names. * Esquire, “Best New Restaurants of 1993” (November, 1993) * Bon Appetit, “Rising Stars: A Roundup of the Best New Restaurants” (January, 1994) ROXBURY LOS ANGELES A TRI-LEVEL RESTAURANT, BLUES LOUNGE AND DANCE CLUB Jan 1989 – Dec 1993 Moving to California, Johnson along with a group of partners opened a three-level restaurant, blues lounge, and club on Sunset Blvd in the heart of West Hollywood. At the time the infamous “velvet rope” made famous at Studio 54 and then at the very popular Nells in NYC along with the door people who granted admittance became the barometers of the social pecking order, deciding who was granted access. Johnson felt it was important to attract both a diverse clientele while simultaneously enticing the epicenter of the Hollywood elite. To achieve this, Johnson was purposeful in selecting strategic partners, investors, and staff resulting in Roxbury being wildly successful carving out its place as an internationally recognized exclusive venue. In its first year in business, The Wall Street Journal selected Roxbury as the hottest destination in the country to bring in New Year’s Eve. Roxbury also maintained a multicultural, multi-ethnic customer, culminating in the movie “A Night At The Roxbury” based on the club having captured the zeitgeist of the ’90s. MEMPHIS NEW YORK CITY NEW ORLEANS INSPIRED RESTAURANT Jan 1983 – Dec 1987 After spending the early part of his career learning the ropes at The Cellar, Johnson teamed with a group of partners including actor Al Corley to open New Orleans-style Memphis restaurant. Impressive both for its design and dining experience, Memphis was awarded two-stars in a review from New York Times’ food critic Bryan Miller when it opened on Columbus Avenue. Memphis was known for its unique cultural diversity that was a rare find at the time. TWENTY TWENTY NEW YORK CITY RESTAURANT, BAR AND LIVE MUSIC VENUE Jan 1986 – Dec 1987 Johnson was hired to re-imagine a restaurant and bar opened in downtown NYC by husband and wife entertainers, Nick Ashford and Valerie Simpson. As part of the team, he recruited a new chef, oversaw the redevelopment of the menu, and converted the 220-seat restaurant into a venue featuring live entertainment with acts such as Nina Simone, Wilson Pickett, Dianne Shure, and The Ohio Players. “Twenty/Twenty is the kind of big night out that used to define New York nightlife.” New York Magazine, May 1987. THE CELLAR NEW YORK CITY RESTAURANT AND NIGHTCLUB Jan 1973 – Dec 1989 Johnson began his career when his father, Howard Johnson purchased The Cellar Restaurant in 1973 from its original owner. For the next 16 years, The Cellar grew in prominence as a gathering place for African Americans. As popular as it was as a dining destination, The Cellar was as well known for live entertainment. Though well documented in media outlets covering Black social life during this period, there is little written of The Cellar in mainstream media due to lack of diversity in hiring and coverage. That fact does not diminish Howard Johnson’s role as a true pioneer and an important figure in the hospitality field. THE REVIEWS ARE IN > Event: USC Masters Food Journalism Class > > ‘Anecdote after rhapsodic anecdote illustrated his point about the salient > importance of curiosity, empathy and fact-checking as necessities in the food > journalist’s tool belt.’ Sasha Anawalt, Professor of Professional Practice Director, Arts Journalism Masters Program, USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism > Project: Post & Beam Restaurant and Windows Restaurant > > ”I’ve known Brad for over 25 years. As a commercial property developer, I’ve > worked with Brad twice. In both instances, Brad proved to be a financially > disciplined operator, creative concept developer, and dependable entrepreneur. > I’ve enjoyed his places as a guest countless times over the years and place > Brad in a small category of businessman unique in his field.” Ken Lombard, EVP & Chief Operating Officer, Seritage Growth Properties > Project: VBar at The Venetian > > ”[Brad] has shown his ability on more than one occasion to capture a wide > audience with his restaurant, bar and nightclub concepts. I truly believe that > any developer or landlord will benefit with Brad in any site-specific > ventures.” Michael Weinstein, CEO/ Chairman, Ark Restaurants Corp > Project: The Historic Sunset Lounge Redevelopment Project > > ”I found Post & Beam Hospitality to be professional and good team players. > They exhibited an astute level of cultural awareness and knowledge of the > hospitality industry, operations, trends and players… and would recommend > their services without hesitation.” Allison Justice, Interim Executive Director, West Palm Beach Community Redevelopment Agency Copyright 2020 - Post & Beam Hospitality | All Rights Reserved FacebookInstagramLinkedIn Go to Top × CONTACT POST & BEAM HOSPITALITY Your Name (required) Your Email (required) Subject Your Message × Close