Daniel Patterson — the chef who built two-Michelin-starred Coi into a 16-year fixture of San Francisco fine dining, and a James Beard winner Anthony Bourdain called one of the most important voices in food — has returned to the form with Jacaranda, opened May 2026 with his wife, music-industry veteran Sarah Lewitinn. It grew out of Jaca Social Club, the pop-up the couple ran from their Hancock Park home, and now occupies a 30-seat Melrose Avenue room designed by Preen Inc., anchored by Adele Renault's commissioned painting of the namesake tree. The single nightly seating is a 10-course modern California tasting ($295): soft tofu with seaweed and caviar, stuffed morels with spruce tips, grilled vermilion snapper with Kauai prawn. Lewitinn presides over the room and the soundtrack. Come for fine dining run as a dinner party, with the technique to back it.