CPK Co-Founder Debuts Roman-Style Pizza Pop-Up in Glendale
ROCA opens soon in the former Tsujita space in Glendale
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A new restaurant is ready to take up residence at the Americana at Brand in Glendale soon. Named ROCA, it’s expected to open Memorial Day weekend with a shortened menu of Roman-style slices and more, all backed by a couple of big names in the LA pizza scene.
The new Roca, which will take over the former Tsujita at the Americana (which closed after a four-year run), comes from California Pizza Kitchen co-founder Rick Rosenfield and his partner/wife Esther Rosenfield. The pair already have a prodigious background in popularizing a particular kind of pizza in LA (and beyond), but for this new place they’ve brought on chef Luigi Roditis of Il Romanista in El Segundo to run the show. Fans of Roman-style slices will remember Il Romanista as the basically the first entrant into that market, way back in 2017, before places like Triple Beam Pizza in Highland Park and Oste on West Third Street.