Taix Closed After 99 Years, but the Family Says It Is Coming Back

This is not goodbye, the family wrote, but a bientot.

Taix closed its chalet-style dining room at 1911 W. Sunset Boulevard on March 29, 2026, after 99 years in business and 64 of them in Echo Park. The building is coming down for a six-story housing development. The restaurant, the family says, is not finished.

The name is pronounced tex, and for anyone who ever sat in one of its deep banquettes under the low lights, the closure felt larger than a restaurant.

Coming back

The plan is for a smaller Taix to return at the base of the new building, incorporating original design elements, with the family hoping to reopen by 2029 or 2030. Per The Eastsider, the restaurant will be closed for at least three and a half years.

In the meantime, the team has said it plans occasional pop-ups, catering and a Taix cookbook. So there is a way to eat the food before the new room opens, and FJM will report pop-up dates as they are announced.

How it came to this

The Taix family came to Los Angeles from the Hautes-Alpes region of France in 1870 and opened a hotel downtown. The restaurant followed in 1927, also downtown, before moving to Echo Park in 1962. The Sunset Boulevard building could seat more than 400 people and became the default room for banquets, milestone birthdays, retirement dinners and the 321 Lounge, which ran live music.

In 2019, owner Michael Taix sold the property, including its large parking lot, to developer Holland Partner Group for roughly $12 million. He was frank about why. He told the LA Times his profits had been going down year by year, and more recently said the family spent so much repairing the aging building, with constant plumbing, mechanical and walk-in cooler problems, that a new build was the clearer path. He considered selling the whole business to another operator, but it was not profitable enough to cover the upkeep.

The family continued operating under a lease for years afterward. In a post after the announcement, Taix credited the extraordinary kindness of the developers for letting the restaurant stay in Echo Park nearly a decade longer than it otherwise would have.

The preservation fight

The building was nominated as a Historic-Cultural Monument. What survived the process was far narrower. A 2021 City Council vote protected select elements, the neon sign and the cherrywood bar, but not the building itself.

Historian Charles Fisher, who wrote the nomination, told LA Mag he was furious, arguing that the alterations the commission discounted were exactly what made Taix what it was. The LA Conservancy's Adrian Scott Fine made a similar point: the layers of time and memory in the original room are not something you can re-create. It is a real tension, between a city that badly needs housing and the places that give it character, and Taix sat right in the middle of it.

The last weeks

Business tripled after the announcement, with lines stretching to Sunset Boulevard for the French onion soup and steak frites. Retired staff came back to help, including some who had worked there for half a century. Fans also began walking out with souvenirs, including photographs, posters, light fixtures and the art from the women's restroom. Fixtures were later sold through an online auction.

Michael Taix spent those final weeks monitoring the line, seating guests and jumping behind the bar to mix drinks. Hoodline covered the redevelopment plan in more detail.

Taix was at 1911 W. Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90026, in Echo Park. The family is targeting a return inside the new development around 2029 to 2030.

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