Chez Melange  Chez Melange was an American seafood restaurant and gastropub located in Redondo Beach, California, which closed on February 29, 2020. It was opened in 1982 and owned and run by Michael Franks and co-owner and head chef Robert Bell. Chez Melange was originally located on Pacific Coast Highway and after the lease was up it moved to its current location in January 2009 on Catalina Avenue. Chez Melange runs three restaurants at the same venue, Sea Change, a sea food themed restaurant, Bouzy, a gastropub and The Oyster Bar. Robert Bell said when first meeting Franks "I remembered thinking, I don’t want to work with this guy. I’m from Brooklyn, he’s from London. He came from what I thought was an upscale upbringing, I was just off the line of being poor. He went through restaurant school, I barely made it through junior college. But we were both very driven, very passionate about what we were doing, and that’s the only reason we got along."