When husband and wife business partners Leor and Laura Klein started Klein Kitchen, a full-service, bespoke private chef matchmaking service, in 2020, they didn’t realize it was opening the door to their next food venture. Through a private dinner they catered, the couple ended up meeting UTA’s CEO Jeremy Zimmer, which led to the creation of Leora, a café at UTA’s Beverly Hills headquarters serving up free daily lunches to the agency’s employees.

The café and marketplace, which Laura Klein describes as “California fresh with a Mediterranean twist,” opened in fall 2022, offers a daily rotating menu of items like Greek salad with chicken, falafel wraps, Italian sandwiches and more.

“It was really important for us to have as much variety as possible because, obviously, if you eat at the same place every day, it gets tired and old,” Laura Klein says. “So we have three daily specials...