A Literary Salon at Musso & Frank
“It’s a bull shot,” said event planner Randall Hall as he sipped a half-inch of vodka-infused beef bouillon off his hearty amber-colored cocktail. “I ordered it because that’s what Noel Coward served the Queen Mother.” On this damp Monday night, a night when Musso & Frank Grill is usually closed, its long mahogany bar and red-leather banquettes echoed with conversations that began much like this: names of esoteric cocktails, tales of flamboyant playwrights, plots of forgotten novels — all in the name of honoring the self-ascribed “Oldest Restaurant in Hollywood” and its role in local literary history.
