Union Cattle gives way to Abigaile
Chef Max DiMare and owner Jed Sanford are remaking the Union Cattle Company into Abigaile with an eye towards the location’s varied history. Photo A Hermosa Beach landmark will change character this week as Union Cattle Company restaurant closes for a makeover. Owner Jed Sanford is bringing celebrity chef Max DiMare from Northern California to create a menu using meats cured in-house and seasonal produce. Sanford says the new restaurant, to be named Abigaile, will take the history of the building into account with the restaurant design. The site was formerly home to the First Baptist Church, pictured, as well as a art cooperative, a famed punk rehearsal space, and a brewery. “This was originally a Southern Baptist church that later became a creative arts space and a music studio, and there are references to all of those things in our design,” he explained. “There is something of that in the name Abigaile… this used to be a church, so the word Abbey fits in.” The building has indeed been put to a variety of uses — built as a church in 1924, it was sold to a developer in 1973, but plans for a restaurant didn’t work out. It was an artist’s cooperative called the Creative Craft Center…
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