Sibling’s sibling shines [restaurant review]
Little Sister manager Timmy checks in with a customer. Photo There is a well-worn formula for success in the restaurant industry: create an appealing concept, work it until it’s perfect, then open branch operations that duplicate the original. If the chain is particularly successful then the original often acquires a mystique, the sense that this is the place where the magic came together. Diehard fans of Morton’s Steakhouse swear that the one in Chicago makes the meat by which all others are measured, and there are caffeine fanatics who swear that the coffee tastes better at the original Peet’s in Berkeley. It’s a logical attitude, because copies of things are often blurry compared to the original. Occasionally it goes the other way, and that’s the case at the new Little Sister in Redondo. The first Little Sister clone opened with great fanfare in Downtown Los Angeles in 2015, the second almost stealthily in Redondo Beach this May in the former Suburbia. When I visited with a companion who had failed to get into the original several times, he asked if I thought this one would be as good. I told him I was sure that a professional restaurant group like this one would certainly try…
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