Cerritos: Umaya Ramen, the passion project of dearly departed chef KC Ma, is now open for tonkotsu and seafood-topped ramen. [Eater]
Costa Mesa: O.C. gets its own version of West Hollywood’s notorious meat market, Saddle Ranch, this Saturday at The Triangle. [GS]
–The Pitfire Pizza in this neck-of-the-woods will soon feature its own secret cocktail bar called The Pie Society. [Sommy Rhee]
Culver City: Blaze Pizza is coming to the new development at Washington and Sepulveda, with an opening expected in August. [TRA]
Downtown: Chef Casey Lane is now serving a selection of the handmade pastas popularized at Tasting Kitchen at his Downtown restaurant The Parish, including bigoli with lemon basil cream and English peas and hand-torn pasta with a pork and apple braise. [GS]
–Coming next to the Grand Central Market? Valerie Confections and Claremont’s Cheese Cave have both signed leases to open their own stalls here. [LADTN]
Echo Park: Otherworld is hosting a “Food Swap” on April 28th, in which we’ll try to trade this crusty old sandwich for a shuny new bottle of beer. [LAT]
Hollywood: Starting next month and continuing the fourth Sunday of every month throuh October, Tender Greens chef Eric Hulme is bringing back his whole animal series, slow-cooking full beasts in a Caja China and pairing dishes with sides and his own beer. Prix-fixe menus are $45, starting with a ReRide pig in May and followed by goat in June. [GS]
–Evan Kleiman is no longer doing her “This Is Not a Pop-Up” series, with fourteen-year-old chef Flynn McGarry taking his place for dishes like sturgeon with tapioca, spring onions, vinegar and rye. [GS]
Mid-City: Milk Jar Cookies is now open and serving fresh-from-the-oven cookies. [LAist]
Pasadena: The city’s “Restaurant Week” just unveiled new online apps to navigate its restaurant deals, over on Google Play and iTunes. [GS]
Santa Monica: Stella Rossa got a new lunch menu last week, served on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays at the restaurant and featuring Jeff Mahin’s housemade porchetta sandiwch, an oprganic pork meatball sub, and a Stella hero. [GS]
