Sponsored By

Michael Mina announces new restaurant, Mother Tongue, in a Los Angeles fitness center

Chef partners with lifestyle brand HEIMAT to bring newest Mina Group restaurant to life

Holly Petre, Assistant Digital Editor

October 18, 2021

2 Min Read
RestaurantHospitality logo in a gray background | RestaurantHospitality

James Beard award-winning chef Michael Mina has announced a new restaurant – Mother Tongue – to launch in a Los Angeles fitness club opening in 2022.

Mother Tongue, a concept from Mina’s multiconcept group Mina Group, will be “a place for a night out for dinner with friends, a happy hour cocktail, a business lunch or breakfast with colleagues,” according to a company release.

The menu will be comprised of “global fare” with “vibrant and clean ingredients that nourish the body and mind,” according to the company.

“Over the last few years, we have had a deep desire to create an experience that balances a destination dining experience that is rooted in wellness,” Michael Mina said in a release. “HEIMAT is the ideal location for us to further showcase our commitment to wellness through our standard dining pillars of exceptional service, using the highest-quality ingredients in a convivial atmosphere. The goal of Mother Tongue is to create a culinary destination with food that makes you feel amazing.”

The restaurant is in collaboration with HEIMAT, a concept fitness club with restaurants operating out of Los Angeles and owned by RSG Group. RSG Group owns and operates Gold’s Gym, McFIT, the John Reed family of clubs and creative and lifestyle brands such as Marcell Von Berlin, Ron Miller and Pearl Model Management.

Mother Tongue will be inside the new HEIMAT global flagship location in Los Angeles, set to open next year. The space will span 75,000-square-feet and five floors, encompassing a space for wellness as well as culinary concepts.

"As a Michelin-starred chef, Michael Mina is an acclaimed and well-respected talent in the restaurant industry. Together with him, we are creating for the first time a unique relationship between the distinct experience of a starred kitchen with a concept fitness club, HEIMAT," Rainer Schaller, founder and CEO of RSG Group, said in a release. "Through our friendship, Michael and I have found that we both not only have a great passion for good food—we also share the understanding that it can evoke cherished memories. Mother Tongue is the result of our search for the origins of diverse food cultures and the comfortable feeling of home that is experienced through all senses."

The restaurant will be open to the public, not just club members.

Mina Group encompasses more than 40 brick-and-mortar and virtual restaurant brands ranging from Bourbon Burger Bar in Del Mar, Calif., to Estiatorio Ornos a Michael Mina Restaurant in Miami and San Francisco to Michael Mina in Las Vegas.

About the Author

Holly Petre

Assistant Digital Editor

Holly Petre is a digital editor for Nation’s Restaurant News as well as the host of NRN’s podcast, Extra Serving, and producer for Informa Restaurant and Food Group’s other three podcasts, One On One by Food Management, Off the Shelf with SN and In the Kitchen with Bret Thorn. Holly holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts with a concentration in Sculpture, fibers and Material Studies and Ceramics from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. A native New Yorker, Holly enjoys her place on staff as the resident pop-culture expert and millennial with a sassy attitude and great sense of style.

Holly Petre’s work on Nation’s Restaurant News and Restaurant Hospitality often covers marketing and trends, either aimed-at or examined-through the millennial mindset. Holly is responsible for introducing TikTok and Twitch to NRN and RH readers as well as explaining terms like “Karen” to staff and readers alike. She also spends her time on staff trying not to make every headline a pun.

Holly Petre hasn’t spoken at any events or on panels, but she is readily available with a killer shoe wardrobe and several witty quips.

 

Subscribe to Our Newsletters
Get the latest breaking news in the industry, analysis, research, recipes, consumer trends, the latest products and more.

You May Also Like