Marine Street Cafe in Manhattan Beach to become Brittany bistro
Marine Street Cafe manager Guy Cliff next to a menu chalk board that customers wrote on, expressing their disappointment that the restaurant is closing. Photo The popular, four-year-old Marine Street Cafe, at Marine Street and Highland, closed last week after owner Skylar Tourigny and landlords Michael Leigh and Michael Quagletti were unable to agree on a lease extension. The neighborhood restaurant is to be replaced by a French restaurant, according to Leigh. He said the new owner is an award winning chef from the Brittany area in France who had been looking for a Manhattan Beach location for several years. Marine Street is the second, mid-priced Manhattan Beach restaurant in the the past month to be replaced by a more upscale restaurant. Scotty McColgan, owner of the 14-year-old Sharks Cove announced two weeks ago that he has sold his downtown Manhattan Beach sports bar to the Sharkeez restaurant group. Shakeez owner Greg Newman said he plans to convert Sharks Cove into a second Palmilla Cocina Y Tequila restaurant. The original Palmilla is on Pier Plaza in Hermosa Beach. Unlike the Sharks Cove transition, the Marine Street Cafe closure was not consensual. On September 1, Marine…
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