One of the coolest and exclusive celebrity joints in Los Angeles is to secretly invite people to a New Years Eve party in person, asking them to keep it low … but also to spread the word.

The restaurant in question is La Scala, and their location in Beef Hills is what does this « easily modern » thing. They’ve clearly been slipping off invitations in requests to go to a dinner event in New York City … and they’re quietly handling it by making it an explosion of prohibition in the 1920s era.

An invitation of theirs was recently posted online, and it reads … « We are considering making reservations for a New Year’s Eve dinner. Inside. If this is something that interests you, please let us know as soon as possible. »

The message continues … « If there is enough interest, we will contact you again to secure your reservation. Please keep this confidential, but tell all your friends. » So … it’s not a secret at all.

La Scala plans on the radar of Beverly Hills city officials – who issue a harsh, but not so much rebuke at this point, in the way of threats to shut this thing down.

« We understand that this is a very difficult time for all of our business, » says the official Beverly Hills Representative, « however the boycott order currently prohibits indoor and outdoor dining, including in Beverly Hills. » Awesome … but is that it ???

Time will tell if La Scala is able to proceed with the shindig – you’d imagine the cops would step in and try to stop it – but at this point … it could fall into a gray area, like a lot of these lockdown measures we’ve seen have been challenged this year, Including around Los Angeles

Btw, La Scala is one of these old Hollywood restaurants … it has been around forever since then, and some of the most famous faces in history have stopped by for a meal or two. People like Frank Sinatra, Cher, David Geffen, Chloe Kardashian, Lamar Odom, Barbara Walters and many more … until recently, that is.