How Post & Beam, the successful black-owned South L.A. restaurant, stayed in local hands

At Post & Beam restaurant in Baldwin Hills, a restaurateur and two chefs have built a successful black-owned business for a largely black community.

The soul of a restaurant can be hard to trace, a heady synthesis of atmosphere and mood, the food on the plates, and the people who make that food and arrive to eat it.

And it was very much on display one night in late July, shortly after restaurateur Brad Johnson, 62, the restaurant’s founding owner and operator, handed the keys to chef John Cleveland, 36.

When Johnson opened Post & Beam, on New Year’s Eve of 2011, he did so with Armstrong behind the stoves. The chef, who began his celebrated cooking career as a teenage apprentice at Spago, had the kind of cachet Johnson was looking for — plus he was local, and he was black.

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