The Moonshadows restaurant site along the Malibu coast, a high-profile casualty of one of California’s most destructive wildfires, is now up for grabs.
All that remains of the once-popular restaurant is a 0.3-acre strip littered with remnants of the 40-year-old restaurant’s structure destroyed by the Palisades fire along with thousands of homes and dozens of businesses in January.
The site has been cleared of toxic debris and is available through a ground-lease offering after the private owners decided not to rebuild. The listing at 20356 Pacific Coast Highway offers restaurant or hospitality operators the chance to plant their flag on the waterline in one of Los Angeles County’s most exclusive dining corridors.
It also represents the latest turning point for businesses recovering in the wake of the Palisades and Eaton fires that collectively torched 40,000 acres across Los Angeles, destroying 11,200 residential and commercial properties.
Other local restaurants, including Mastro’s Ocean Club, Gladstones and Duke’s Malibu, also sustained damage in the fire, but all have since reopened, at least partially. Local celebrity-favorite Japanese restaurant Nobu, meanwhile, was not damaged in the fires.