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CPK Co-Founder Debuts Roman-Style Pizza Pop-Up in Glendale ROCA opens soon in the former Tsujita space in Glendale Share this story 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 ....
LA Restaurants and Chefs That Stepped Up for Their Communities in 2020 Restaurants were an essential part of helping communities this past year Share this story Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images 2020 will be the year that upended the restaurant industry. It’s difficult to talk about the year in review when everything changed, when people and businesses suffered during the pandemic. In light of the challenging year for everyone in Los Angeles, we asked food writers and industry folks about restaurants they thought stepped up for their communities and stakeholders. Mona Holmes, Eater LA Reporter Post & Beam’s chef/owner John Cleveland and numerous South LA restaurants worked with Councilman Marqueece Harris Dawson to prepare meals for seniors from March until June. The program ended June 12, but Clevelend extended the program by fundraising within the Baldwin Hills-Crenshaw community. I can’t think of another restaurant so commit ....