# Legendary LA restaurant famous for training star chefs like Guy Fieri will shutter after nearly 50 years

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/legendary-la-restaurant-famous-for-training-star-chefs-like-guy-fieri-will-shutter-after-nearly-50-years/
- Published: 2026-11-06T17:56:55+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-06T18:38:12+00:00
- Original publisher: New York Post (publisher lean: Right)
- Original article: https://nypost.com/2026/11/06/business/la-restaurant-known-for-training-star-chefs-to-shutter-after-nearly-50-years/
- Topics: Celebrity, Culture, Entertainment, Food, World

## Key points

- Louise’s Trattoria will close its last location on 25 November.
- The chain once had 19 restaurants across several regions.
- Guy Fieri worked for Louise’s before opening his first restaurant.

## Summary

Louise’s Trattoria, a long-running Italian restaurant in Los Angeles’s Larchmont Village, will close on 25 November, ending nearly five decades of business. The family-owned chain was also a training ground for chefs including Guy Fieri, who worked as a district manager before opening his first restaurant.

The first Louise’s opened in Santa Monica in 1978, and the chain eventually grew to 19 locations. Expansion left it with $12 million in unsecured debt and it filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in 1997; the Larchmont restaurant, which opened in 1988, became its last location. The owners have not given a reason for closing, and customers can still pre-order Thanksgiving meals for collection on its final day.

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