Century City Restaurants: What's Open at Westfield and Century Plaza

Cross Constellation Boulevard at Avenue of the Stars on a Tuesday at noon and you'll feel the split before you see it. On the Westfield side, the line for Super Peach snakes past Cafe Knotted's pastel brioche doughnuts, office badges still clipped to shirts, a table turning every twenty minutes. Walk two hundred feet across the street to the Century Plaza Promenade and the mood changes. A handful of diners sit at Lumière, the French-inspired brasserie tucked inside the Fairmont, while the storefronts around it stay dark behind construction paper. Same neighborhood. Same afternoon. Two different clocks.

That gap is the actual story if you live in Century City right now, more useful than any list of new places to try. One side of Constellation is opening restaurants on schedule. The other has been sliding its dates for over a year. Knowing which clock you're reading tells you whether to make a reservation or just keep checking back.

The Mall Side Runs on a Leasing Calendar

Westfield Century City has turned over its dining floor at a pace that would be unusual for any shopping center, and the reason is structural. These are corporate tenants with construction teams whose entire job is hitting a lease date.

Momofuku's Super Peach opened on the mall's first level in October 2025, David Chang's first new restaurant concept since Bāng Bar in Las Vegas in 2021, serving lobster noodles and slow-roasted ribs a few doors from Din Tai Fung and the hot pot destination Haidilao. Cafe Knotted followed on the second level with its Korean dessert counter. Casa Dani, chef Dani García's Spanish-Mediterranean room built around Iberico ham croquetas and wagyu flatiron, opened the same year.

Katsuya went further. The chain's fourth Los Angeles location relaunched with a 17,000-square-foot build and a $25 million redesign from Rockwell Group, the largest investment the brand has made in any of its locations. The terrace looks out toward Beverly Hills and the Hollywood Hills, and the kitchen kept its familiar spicy tuna crispy rice and baked crab hand rolls while adding toro tartare and A5 wagyu tataki to the menu.

Then there's Very Thai, which opened in January 2026 and is worth pausing on for what it represents rather than what it serves. The restaurant is the U.S. flagship for TTFB Co. Ltd., one of Taiwan's largest chain restaurant operators by market cap, and Century City is its first location anywhere outside Asia. The build covers 5,000 square feet with 131 seats, a full bar, and a private dining room. A company picking its first international address chose a mall on the Westside of Los Angeles over anywhere else in the world it could have landed.

That is what a leasing calendar looks like when it's working. It is also why one holdout on the same floor stands out so clearly.

The One That Missed Its Date

Rumi's Kitchen, the Atlanta-based Persian chain, announced its first California location would take over the old Pink Taco space on the mall's second floor, with two private dining rooms and a patio facing Santa Monica Boulevard. Chef Ali Mesghali, who grew up in Iran and in Los Angeles, would be returning to open a restaurant in the city where he was raised. The restaurant's own site listed the opening as spring 2026.

Spring came and went. As of late July 2026, neither Rumi's Kitchen nor Westfield had posted a revised date, and the space remains under construction. It isn't dead. It's simply not running on the same clock as Super Peach or Very Thai, both of which are backed by teams whose leverage over Westfield's timeline comes from being large chains with construction infrastructure built for exactly this kind of rollout. A single-concept opening from an independent operator doesn't have that same pull, even when the brand behind it has locations in half a dozen other cities.

Across the Street, a Slower Kind of Luxury

The Century Plaza Promenade operates on a different model entirely. This is the retail and dining component of Century Plaza, the six-acre luxury development anchored by the Fairmont hotel and the Park Elm condominium towers, and its restaurant roster was announced with the kind of fanfare that comes from signing global names rather than expanding existing footprints.

Sushi Noz, the first California location for the acclaimed Japanese omakase brand, was part of that original announcement. So were Estiatorio Milos, the Greek seafood concept from chef Costas Spiliadis making his California debut, and KYU, the Asian-inspired wood-fired restaurant from chef Christopher Arellanes opening its fifth location. As of a Park Elm Residences update from May 2026, Sushi Noz was still listed among the tenants slated to open "this year," now alongside two newer additions, Wally's and Le Specialità, plus a wellness concept called The Estate developed with Fountain Life.

Lumière has been the one seat at that table that's actually been serving food the entire time. An eighteen-month gap between a splashy announcement and an actual opening isn't scandalous by the standards of high-end restaurant development. It is, however, a fact worth knowing if you live two blocks away and have been checking the storefronts every few months wondering what happened to Sushi Noz.

What's Actually Open Right Now

Why Two Restaurant Rows Feel Like Different Neighborhoods

The distance between Westfield's food court and the promenade is a five-minute walk. The distance between who eats there is much larger. Office workers grabbing Super Peach on a Tuesday and Park Elm residents booking a table at a promenade restaurant on a Friday are rarely the same person making two different choices in the same week. Park Elm's 268 condominiums, split across two 44-story towers designed by Pei Cobb Freed and Partners, were listed from $2.6 million to more than $20 million as of spring 2026. That's a different price point and a different daily rhythm than the office towers feeding Westfield's lunch rush.

The two clusters were never far apart in distance. They've been far apart in who uses them, and nothing on the ground right now is closing that gap on its own.

The Subway That's Supposed to Fix This Isn't Here Yet

If you've heard that the Metro D Line will finally stitch these two restaurant rows together this year, that's not accurate. The D Line's first section, with stations at Wilshire/La Brea, Wilshire/Fairfax, and Wilshire/La Cienega, opened on May 8, 2026. The second section, which adds a station in Beverly Hills and one at Century City, is tentatively set to open in spring 2027, not this year, according to Metro's own construction updates and confirmed by the City of Beverly Hills' project page.

The Century City station sits at Avenue of the Stars and Constellation Boulevard, which means it will land almost exactly on the line that currently separates the mall crowd from the promenade crowd. Metro's own materials note that major street restoration and deck removal along Constellation began in spring 2026 as part of that construction, which is part of why the block still feels like a work zone more than a finished corridor. Until that station opens, walking across Constellation will keep feeling like walking between two separate errands rather than one continuous stretch of neighborhood.

What This Means If You're Already Here

None of this requires a decision from you. It just means the map in your head of "what's open in Century City" needs two different update schedules, not one. Check the mall side for what's actually ready to seat you tonight. Check the promenade side for what's been announced but is still worth a phone call before you drive over expecting a table. And if you've been waiting for the subway to make the whole thing feel like one place, that wait runs through spring 2027, not this fall.

The gap won't last forever. But right now, if you live in Century City, you're living in a neighborhood that's still becoming one neighborhood, one restaurant lease and one construction deadline at a time.

If you're weighing what any of this means for your own address in Century City, whether you're watching the market from a condo near the promenade or a high-rise closer to the mall, Amy Um and her team track these shifts as part of daily business on the Westside. Reach out for a complimentary home valuation or consultation whenever you're ready to talk specifics.