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Truly Pizza, the Dana Point pizzeria built on three-day fermented dough, is opening its third location at 1239 Abbot Kinney in Venice in late 2026. At 4,655 square feet and roughly 130 seats, it will be one of the larger sit-down rooms on the boulevard.

September brings a six-month chef residency at Topanga Social, the last Sundays of Ice Cream Alley, two beach-city wine festivals, a free Americana concert with food trucks and the return of the Indian Food Festival. Here is the month, with dates, addresses and what each one costs.

The Last Canteen opens on Ventura Blvd in Studio City with a post-apocalyptic bomb shelter theme, mai tais, burgers, tenders, and sarsaparilla on draft.

It's Potato on Sherman Way is an aviation-themed build-your-own baked potato restaurant, with a dining room designed to look like the cabin of a 747, complete with overhead bins, a cockpit and window ports.

Malka, the certified-kosher restaurant from Miznon chef Eyal Shani, has opened at SIXTY Beverly Hills. It is the brand's first West Coast location, following Tel Aviv, Manhattan, Brooklyn and West Palm Beach.

The second Indian Food Festival Los Angeles lands at the Compound Event Center in Commerce on September 26, 2026, noon to 5 p.m. Tickets, lineup and parking.

San Gabriel's Dumpling & Beer Fest returns October 2, 2026. Free entry, 20+ food vendors, 17 beer partners, a new VIP tier and a non-alcoholic garden.

Inside Petit Trois Le Valley, Chef Ludo Lefebvre's Sherman Oaks brasserie: the omelette, Big Mec, filet au poivre and more, plus our sit-down with Chef Ludo.

The Tasting Kitchen reopened at 1633 Abbot Kinney on July 16 with founding chef Casey Lane back in the kitchen, a live-fire menu, a dual tasting and a la carte format, and the original olive tree still standing in the dining room.

Malka, the kosher restaurant Eyal Shani founded in Tel Aviv in 2018, has opened at SIXTY Beverly Hills in partnership with Pagani Projects. It is the brand's first West Coast location, built around open-fire cooking.

The Tasting Kitchen is back after a fire, Badmaash opened a dining room, Truly Pizza is taking the old Greenleaf space, and the Abbot Kinney Festival returns September 27 after two years off. A guide to eating on the boulevard right now.

Kulturas Latin Kitchen & Cantina marks its West LA grand opening Friday, August 28 on Pico Blvd with live harp, boleros and free appetizers. Menu, hours, address.

Eric Greenspan opened Mish on La Brea in June, a modern Jewish delicatessen with wood-fired Montreal-style bagels, hand-carved pastrami and a babka program from Dara Yu. It runs 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily, then closes and becomes an event space with an upstairs vinyl lounge.

Gable opened August 18 in the Hollywood Roosevelt's ground-floor dining room, an 82-seat restaurant built around a live-fire hearth from culinary director Chris Flint, formerly of Maude and Eleven Madison Park.

Chef Joshua Whigham's Los Feliz Spanish restaurant is in the MICHELIN Guide, with acorn-fed jamon iberico, Iberian cocas, rabo de toro and a monthly Sunday paella.

Chef Sanjay Rawat opened Brick Lane in May at 1331 E. 6th Street, a modern Indian restaurant built on a wood-fired grill and tandoor inside a renovated 1920s warehouse, with a wine list from Kathryn Coker and Indian single malts behind the bar.

Keith Corbin closed Alta Adams for several months at the start of the year and reopened it in June with refreshed interiors and a reworked menu, now as sole owner of the West Adams restaurant he opened in 2018.

Connie and Ted's, Crustacean, Cactus Taqueria's Hollywood original and Wolfgang Puck's Merois all served their last meals in 2026. A look at what closed, when, and which locations are still open.

Marmalade Cafe served its last meal at The Commons at Calabasas on Sunday, August 2, ending a 28-year run. The Westlake Village, Malibu, Sherman Oaks and El Segundo locations remain open.

Ice Cream Alley, Smorgasburg LA's summer showcase of independent ice cream makers, is running Sundays through September 6 for its 10th anniversary at ROW DTLA. Admission is free.