Launched in January, Gusto Green serves as the upscale dining hall of sorts and playground for the Green Street Building in downtown LA, an office building that is home to the cannabis consulting specialist Green Street Agency, as well as 40 or so cannabis-industry companies.
The opening menu was created by Chef Michael Magliano, whose background includes stints at The French Laundry, as well as Animal, Soho House and Quince.
Managing Partner Jeronimo De Miguel said the restaurant’s menu champions plants — and not just the cannabis plant.
Sourdough puffed pitas are sprinkled with hemp-heart za’atar, for example, and cocktails can be spiced up with a drop of terpenes, but De Miguel said neither contains the elements that could make someone high.