IN MEMORIAM – Manhattan Beach Strand House mourns loss of Michael Morrisette
Micheal Morrisette, a managing partner of The Strand House, died of complications related to COVID-19 last week. Photo courtesy the Zislis Group by Mark McDermott The Strand House had only been opene for about a year, and it was something new and ambitious both for restaurateur Mike Zislis and for Manhattan Beach. It was 2012 and neither Zislis nor the city was yet known as a destination for fine dining. All Zislis knew is he wanted the best of the best. He’d hired the best chefs, and appointed the kitchen with state of the art equipment, all with the intent to match the peerless location of the new restaurant, perched right above the Manhattan Beach pier. But something was missing. Zislis was out for dinner in L.A. one night and met a man well-known in the higher realms of the region’s fine dining world. He asked Michael Morrisette to come and take a look at his restaurant and share his thoughts on it. Morrisette, who’d worked at Savore, La Cachette, Citrin, and helped open famed four-star restaurant Mélisse in Los Angeles, came to The Strand House. He ate, observed, and wrote a report on the restaurant for Zislis. Zislis was blown away. The report talked about “soul and…
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