The high-profile queen of Hollywood nightlife is expanding her empire but in a more understated direction than some might expect.

Shereen Arazm, Hollywood’s only female nightclub owner and the sole woman in the splashy Dolce Group ownership clan, is taking her big-club style success and applying it to two small restaurants she plans to open in the next six months.

Arazm’s first project is an intimate restaurant to be called Davina near Hollywood Boulevard and Las Palmas Avenue in Hollywood. It represents a significant departure from the Dolce Group’s sprawling, nightclub-style Geisha House.

She put the new direction into Hollywood terms.

“Geisha was my blockbuster; now I’m looking to do more independent films,” Arazm said. “Everybody wants to be a nightclub, a dance club, to be Sam Nazarian. Right now, I want to do restaurants and less of the mega-club. We don’t need another 10,000 people coming into Hollywood for another nightclub.”

The restaurant and bar, which will focus on small portions of healthy Japanese-French fare with a tapas-type approach, is named for her mother and is slated to open next spring.

Arazm is also taking over the former site of Authentic Caf & #233; on Beverly Boulevard and plans to open a southern Italian-themed restaurant called Terroni in March.

The idea at the restaurants is more mellow approach pre-club drinks and dinner, or the working crowd on weeknights.

Arazm is still part of the Dolce Group. She maintains a number of business connections with Lonnie Moore and Mike Malin, the other main members, but she wants to cement her own identity.

“I am not Shereen Arazm of the Dolce Group,” she said. “We love each other to death, but we are all so different.”

Besides the Geisha House, the Dolce Group owns Bella, Dolce and Les Deux in Hollywood, and they own a Dolce and a Geisha House in Atlanta.

Among Arazm’s other goals is to attract a more diverse clientele, meaning the more offbeat crowd from Los Feliz and Silver Lake, rather than the would-be socialites and starlets who clamor for entry into the hottest clubs.

Also, she is trying to change up what she described as the sameness in appearance and feel of many L.A. clubs.

“I see the same five designers at every club,” she said. “I am bringing in a new designer for each one.” Tracie Butler will design the light, airy interior planned for Davina.