Church & State is not closing, but it is getting a new owner
(LA Times Dodgers)

Restaurateur Yassmin Sarmadi and her husband, chef Tony Esnault, have decided to sell Church & State, their decade-old French restaurant in the Arts District. `We sold the restaurant; we´re not closing,` Sarmadi said. Sarmadi said the new owner bought the concept as well as the Church & State name....