06/12/2024
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private courtyard, dinner party, private event
Now offering curb-side pickup and delivery. The new menu will offer a number of Buffalo Club favorites, and will also introduce tableside service.
1520 Olympic Boulevard
Santa Monica, CA
90404
Wednesday | 6pm - 9pm |
Thursday | 6pm - 9pm |
Sunday | 5:30pm - 9pm |
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The Buffalo Club is ecstatic to be celebrating 25 years in Santa Monica, CA. Here is Our Story:
Motorcycling down a grungy industrial stretch of Olympic Boulevard in Santa Monica on a hot summer’s night in 1990, Anthony Yerkovich noticed amongst the taquerias, body shops and razor wire an old, unlit Streamline Moderne neon sign perched on the front of a faded, single story stucco building. A dive bar.
Strolling in, he ordered a cold beer and, through the dim light, contemplated the scuffed linoleum, scarred pool table and broken plaster: the place had clearly seen better days. Yerkovich bought another beer then, shortly thereafter, the bar. He’d decided he would build a restaurant: a classic East Coast Prohibition-era speakeasy/supper club.This seemed as good a place as any.
The following year, after the usual delays, construction commenced. The building was gutted, floor-to-ceiling, the exterior walls only left standing. Under the design supervision of the now internationally-renowned architects Ike and Kligerman, there slowly arose from the rubble a breathtaking Art Deco incarnation of the rookie restaurateur’s vision: custom mahogany bar and wainscoting, burgundy leather booths, coffered ceiling and Venetian plaster walls…