Two LA Hospitality Veterans Just Opened a New Palm Springs Restaurant

High season for Palm Springs tourism is around the corner, and opening just in time to nourish visiting Angelenos and seasonal snowbirds is Lost Property at the Skylark Hotel . Go Go Bird’s Brandon Kida and barman Rhino Williams are the duo behind the restaurant. The two formidable Los Angeles talents have brought approachable American fare and well-made cocktails to the low desert.

Lost Property sits on the ground floor of the Skylark Hotel, which was built in 1956 by architect Howard Lapham . The midcentury property is currently owned by hotelier Amitesh Damudar, who purchased it in October 2016; he also owns the retro-chic Tangerine hotel in Burbank . Lost Property has been quietly open for business since September and is the second outpost of the brand that Williams opened in Hollywood in 2014 ; he recently flipped the original location into a vinyl bar .



Kida and Williams, who previously worked together at Hinoki & the Bird and Gunsmoke, were excited to reunite at Lost Property. “Rhino and I have worked on projects over the years and are great friends,” Kida tells Eater. “When the opportunity to collaborate with him on a new space at the Skylark came up, I jumped at the chance.

” Kida is not cooking on-site daily but will travel to Palm Springs frequently to “fine-tune the menu,” he says. The new restaurant and bar spans 700 square feet and seats 55 diners across indoor and outdoor spaces. The dining rooms are open daily for breakfast and lunch but serve dinner only on Fridays and Saturdays starting at 5 p.

m. Diners will find a pure vacation vibe whether seated at a velvet high-back stool along the butcher block bar or outside overlooking sky-high palm trees. Highlights from the morning menu include breakfast sandwiches layered with fennel sausage, egg, and cheddar on a Martin’s potato bun and Parmesan baked eggs with, Gruyere, bacon, and chives.

Pulled espresso drinks are on hand for caffeinating. The restaurant’s lunch and dinner menus overlap with plush bao slicked with lemon aioli and stuffed with crispy maitake mushrooms and cabbage slaw; a selection of tinned seafood served with housemade accouterments like onion dip, chimichurri, pickled red onions, and crostini; and a Maine lobster roll. Williams’s line of cocktails swings between classic and inventive.

Find a Singapore Sling made with gin, benedictine, Grand Marnier, cherry Heering, bitters, and pineapple and lemon juices under the Coolers section, while the Colorado Bulldog with vodka, Kahlua, Coke, and half and half is one of nine Arousers on the extensive menu. Los Angeles’s top chefs are no strangers to expanding their culinary reaches beyond county lines. In late 2023, Mary Sue Milliken and Susan Feniger debuted the California Mediterranean restaurant Alice B.

inside the LGBTQ senior community Living Out in Palm Springs. More recently, the restaurant group behind Little Dom’s in Los Feliz opened a seafood restaurant called Bar Lou in tony Montecito and Evan Funke opened Las Vegas and Miami outposts of his Hollywood hotspot Mother Wolf . Lost Property is located at 1466 N.

Palm Canyon Drive, Palm Springs, CA 92262, and is open daily from 7:30 a.m. to 2 p.

m., and until 11 p.m.

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Lost Property Bar.