We are a Los Angeles-based, independent hospitality group that believes in leaving our corner of the world better than we found it.
Our mission is to create compelling, sustainable businesses within the food and hospitality space.
Our projects are approachable and intentional. Beautiful and delicious. They’re obsessed with sustainability and the well-being of their communities. They’re rooted in pleasure, generosity, thoughtfulness, and respect. They’re places where things are made by hand, with care, every day.
We work to foster connection and support conscious consumerism via the creation of thoughtful hospitality businesses. In our current reality of hyper-consumerism, waste, pervasive technology, and conflict, this is our form of activism — and our investment in the world as we want it to be.
Who We Are
HEATHER SPERLING - owner & founder
Before becoming a restaurateur, Heather spent a decade as an editor of food publications and a consultant for chefs, markets, and brands. Her culinary character is informed by her Lebanese heritage, a stint living in India as a child, and dozens of formative trips to Spain.
She is a founding member of Regarding Her, a national non-profit fueling the growth of women leaders in food and beverage. A love of food led her to become a restaurateur, but it’s a belief in the power and value of hospitality that keeps her going.
PIERLUC DALLAIRE - director of operations & beverage director
Pierluc is a 20-year hospitality veteran who worked in Montreal institutions — including the beloved Joe Beef — before relocating to Los Angeles to help open Botanica. In addition to Botanica and Bar Besito, Pierluc developed and ran the short-lived but much-acclaimed Bar/Restaurant in Los Feliz from 2019-2020. He is a wine savant, an events wizard, a tech & systems whisperer, and a floral superstar, running a floral design company — Western Buttercup — on the side.
