A premier Los Angeles restaurant is facing intense online backlash after one of its owners appeared to voice his and his wife's support for Elon Musk in an article in the New York Times. Walter Manzke ...

République owner Walter Manzke has caught sizable flak online for his statement to Tesla and its yet-to-open WeHo diner.

Vay Su and Shawn Lickliter. Rebecca Roland is an editor of the Southern California/Southwest region, who covers the evolving landscape of Los Angeles’s food scene. Although this is the first ...

Liberal Californians have fiercely lashed out against a renowned Los Angeles restaurant after a co-owner praised Elon Musk's plans to open a Tesla diner. Walter Manzke, co-owner of beloved ...

The co-owner of a critically acclaimed French bistro in Los Angeles got his restaurant into ... Tesla. Walter Manzke, the veteran chef and co-owner of L.A.’s République, praised the idea ...

Musk has been plotting Tesla’s Los Angeles restaurant since 2018 ... Screenshot of comments under the Manzke’s Instagram statement. Reactions and opening plans aside, Eater has kept an ...

The restaurant has routinely ranked in the top 10 in the Los Angeles Times’ “101 Best Restaurants” list since it opened in Hancock Park in 2014. Walter Manzke did not immediately respond to ...

A pair of Manzke group alums are opening a new neighborhood cocktail bar in Los Feliz with the team behind Los Angeles hotspots Donna’s, Lowboy, Bar Flores, and Wolf & Crane. Located in the ...