Wave Lounge, a new restaurant/bar/lounge open at 115 S. 20th Avenue in Downtown Hollywood, promises to enhance the city’s multi-national aura with food, music and dance that echoes the passions and international travels of its owners, a family of Eastern European professional figure skating stars.

The large, softly-lit space has been beautifully redesigned to create smaller, more intimate areas for patrons to eat, drink and talk. It features a large screen TV, a DJ and dance floor, and a stage, keeping open the possibility of live entertainment in the future.

Menu highlights for the Wave restaurant include a hot appetizer of baked mussels under a cheese cap with Teriyaki sauce for $15.99; a cold appetizer of liver terrine on toast with tangerine marmalade for $18.00; and a seafood salad with shrimp, baby octopus, mussels and scallops served in seashells for $19.99. For the main course, there’s a hot skillet with four types of meat and vegetables at $29.00; and fried scallops with pumpkin puree and ginger at $21.00. The most popular dish so far has been the grilled octopus at $20.00. There are also a full range of desserts and a full children’s menu.

The Wave is designed to attract a multi-national market, with music and dancing ranging from Russian to Spanish to American classic. It features a full bar, a full dinner menu with French/Italian contemporary food, a hookah bar, and Karaoke on Tuesdays and Sundays.

“We decided to open in Hollywood mostly because there is a big Russian-speaking community here and nearby,” said Rusetskaya. “We are going for a mixed crowd.”

Added her father, “We feel that Hollywood is perfect for attracting both tourists and locals.”

The Wave Lounge is open from 8 pm – 2 am, Tuesday – Sunday.

For more information, please contact 954-367-5644, waveloungehollywood@gmail.com, or at www.instagram.com/waveloungehollywood