You won’t hear about Maximilians on Twitter -- but it’s still a find
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Maximilians Austro-Hungarian Restaurant is hidden away a few steps from the slowly gentrifying NoHo arts district. But on a sunny afternoon, with the sunlight bouncing off its crisp white tablecloths and a view to the garden through the dining room’s arched windows, you could easily imagine you’ve landed in a village somewhere in Europe.
This isn’t the sort of place that shows up on Twitter.
But those of us who crave the occasional crisp-skinned roast duck or a micro-thin-crusted schnitzel fried quickly in pristine oil are elated to find, here in the land of a thousand sushi bars, the Austro-Hungarian culinary void so beautifully filled.
At dinner time, everyone in the room seems to know the chef, Laszlo Bossanyi. That’s because for 20 years he developed a following for homespun Hungarian comfort food at the shuttered Hortobagy in Studio City.