Photos: Petit Trois in Hollywood

Escargot at Petit Trois may be the best you can get anywhere in Los Angeles.

Escargot at Petit Trois may be the best you can get anywhere in Los Angeles.  (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

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Petit Trois is the second collaboration between Ludovic Lefebvre and Animal’s Vinny Dotolo and Jon Shook: 22 stools and a big open kitchen shoehorned into a former mini-mall Thai restaurant next to the trio’s successful Trois Mec.

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Sydney C. Hunter III, right, chef de cuisine, prepares a plate of chicken leg with help from Adnan Ibrahim, left. Hunter has been working with Chef Ludovic Lefebvre for 15 years.  (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

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Chef Sydney Hunter shows the dish of chicken leg, which is strewn with bread crumbs, crisped in brown butter and topped with a handful of frisée salad.  (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

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Devin Archer, bartender, hold up a menage a quatre cocktail at Petit Trois. The restaurant is casual enough to drop in to read a book while enjoying a drink and some food.  (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

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Steak tartare at Petit Trois. The restaurant is open noon to 11 p.m. daily.  (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

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Devin Archer, bartender, mixes a Bardot cocktail.  (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

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An omelet with Boursin cheese at Petit Trois is a favorite of Justin Timberlake, who often drops in to order one.   (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

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Hunter prepares a plate of Burgundy-style escargot.  (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

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Petit Trois is not very big, and it doesn’t take reservations.   (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

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Red menage a quatre cocktails with yellow Bardot cocktails at the bar at Petit Trois.   (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)