Hugo’s Restaurant to Add Agoura Hills Location

West Hollywood-based Hugo’s Restaurants is opening a new location in Agoura Hills. The new restaurant, which will open at the Whizin’s Center in August, will serve as the chain’s third full-service location, joining others in West Hollywood and Studio City. The chain also owns two Hugo’s Tacos restaurants in Studio City and Atwater Village. In celebration of the restaurant group’s recent milestones of 30 years in business, 10 years in Studio City and the beginning of a new store—or its 30/10/0 celebration—the group’s owners is bringing back its menus of 1980. The owners are also bringing a slate of specials devoted to its evolution into a “stealthy healthy” whole food concept or gluten-free, vegan recipes. “We have evolved from veal to vegan,” said Tom Kaplan, one of the chain’s owners. His father opened Hugo’s as a veal butcher shop that transitioned into a breakfast restaurant. “We still serve our signature Pasta Mama the same way we did 30 years ago, but we also have new variations that cater to the nutritionally and dietary needs of our changing customers,” Kaplan said. The restaurant group is owned and managed by partners Kaplan and his wife, Emily, as well as by Richard and Leslie Brenner and Bill Kohne. Jessica Vernabe