The Ivy is a restaurant located on

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founded and owned by chef Richard Irving and interior designer Lynn von Kersting. They now run the restaurant alongside their daughter India von Kersting Irving. Open since 1983, The Ivy is known for its historic significance to the LA food scene, its popularity with celebrities, its distinctively colourful interiors and its simple, classic menu. Along with The Ivy, the family also own and run Ivy at the Shore on Ocean Avenue in Santa Monica, Dolce Isola: The Ivy Bakery in Beverlywood, and boutique interiors and homeware shop Indigo Seas, located across the street from The Ivy on Robertson Boulevard.

Ivy at the Shore

In 1985, Irving and von Kersting opened Ivy at the Shore on Ocean Avenue, near the Santa Monica pier. Ivy at the Shore serves a similar menu to The Ivy in a relaxed, tropical atmosphere with a scenic view of the Pacific Ocean, and features a front patio overlooking the ocean and a large outdoor garden in back. Shortly after its opening, it was acclaimed as ‘the restaurant of the year’ by Sharon Boorstin of the ''

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Dolce Isola: The Ivy Bakery

Irving and von Kersting opened Dolce Isola: The Ivy Bakery in 2007 inspired by Irving’s original LA Desserts bakery. Located at 2869 South Robertson, the bakery serves a shortened version of The Ivy menu with classics such as crab cakes, chopped salad, and chocolate chip cookies as well as sandwiches, pastries, seasonal gelato, coffee and juices. Dolce Isola supplies desserts to the restaurants and also sells personalized occasion cakes.

Celeb hotspot

The area around The Ivy on Robertson Boulevard is crowded with boutiques, paparazzi shooting for ''

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'', and tourists with "the largest herd of bulb flashers... found directly across the street from The Ivy, where stars and stargazers alike dine". An

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article called The Ivy "a celebrity beehive that sees a constant stream of Hummers, Mercedes and Jaguars pull up and discharge folks who pay through the nose to be seen eating in public".

Notable patrons

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and her "raucous entourage", "kept the

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flowing till closing at the tony Robertson Boulevard restaurant" while she was in Los Angeles working on her third solo album, according to a 2002 ''Los Angeles Times'' story.

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's brother Barron held a birthday "bash" at The Ivy in 2004.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Ivy Restaurants in Los Angeles