The rapidly expanding Menya Musashi has shops in Tokyo, Singapore, and Honolulu Just a few days after Tokyo’s Michelin-starred ramen shop Tsuta announced that it would be opening inside the Glendale Galleria, Toddrickallen uncovers another Tokyo contender landing in the LA area. Menya Musashi, a highly regarded tsukemen, or dip noodle ramen, specialist, will open in the former Tentenyu space…
A big change for this Santa Monica block When 10 Speed Coffee opened inside Pedaler’s Fork in 2011, founders Gideon Kleinman and Robbie Schaeffer simply wanted a cafe next to their favorite mountain biking trails and cycling routes near Calabasas. The duo applied same recipe to their forthcoming Santa Monica location, which opens mid-July on the corner of 20th and…
Fish Eight by Jinpachi opened May 22 Fish Eight by Jinpachi is the new and less-pricey sister restaurant to West Hollywood sushi staple Jinpachi, which opened on May 22. Chef and owner Hirotaka Fujita jumped into the former Kawaba Rice Ball space to expand his LA sushi reach, even though the restaurants are less than three miles away from each…
The East Coast outfit heads even further west Lovers of East Coast micro-chain Astro Doughnuts & Fried Chicken are in for a treat. The company is officially on the move to the Westside, opening later this year off Main Street, just up the street from Urth Caffe. Astro Doughnuts officially arrived in Los Angeles back in April of last year,…
The company has big plans for 2018, with two more shops opening in South Bay When New Zealand natives Andrew Stan Stanisich and Craig Oram dropped Two Guns Espresso into Manhattan beach in 2011, they wanted a cafe similar to ones found back home. Only seven years later and the company continues to expand with a second location in El…
