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Pretty impressive! El Taco Chico, which opened its first location early this spring at 640 Lindero Canyon Road in Oak Park, announced it just opened a 2nd location at 888 New Los Angeles Avenue, Suite D in Moorpark. To open up not one, but TWO locations during the challenging times of this pandemic is impressive!
Learn more at www.facebook.com/El-Taco-Chico-111477747041837 and eltaco-chico.com.
E+ MON is now open
UPDATE: 12/24/20: They are opening real soon. They indicate before the end of this wonderful year 2020! Stay tuned, or follow their Facebook page at www.facebook.com/E-MON-100212308652662.
A new Japanese sushi and ramen eatery is coming to the Westlake Commons plaza at 2805 Agoura Road in Thousand Oaks. The new place appears to be called E + MON according to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control transfer notice on the door.
Previous occupants of this space included Cake Monkey Bakery (Aut 18 to Sep 19), Tonino's Place Pizzeria (Jul 16 to Feb 19) and awhile back, Bad Ass Coffee, then Royal Aloha Coffee.
December 2024 Update: No updates since January. We are now at 4 years since the original announcement. Patience is a virtue :)
January 2024 Update: The signs are long gone since this original post in December 2020 but the Mayor of Calabasas indicated in January 2024 that building permits have been pulled for this anticipated new eatery. www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=769359395225750&set=a.547916184036740
The yellow signs are up at 4895 Las Virgenes Road in Calabasas. Salsa & Beer Mexican Grill Family Restaurant from Jerez Zacatecas is coming soon to the former Coco’s location visible from the 101 south.
With locations in North Hollywood and Van Nuys/Lake Balboa, Salsa & Beer offers authentic Mexican food from the town of Jerez, located in the Mexican state of Zacatecas.
The municipality of Jerez was founded in 1569 and its official name is Jerez de Garcia Salinas in honor of local politician Francisco Garcia Salinas in 1952. The original founders of Jerez came from Jerez de la Frontera, Spain.
Back to the restaurant itself…the menu includes traditional Mexican combination plates, fajitas, sizzling spicy Molcajete dishes, Spicy Zacatecas Carnitas, Tampiquena Chicken, Carne Asada Encebollada Charbroiled Steak, their “famous” tortas and much more.
Don’t know the timing as of yet, but the signs are certainly up.
More info at www.salsaandbeernorthhollywood.com.
Lucky’s Steakhouse opened earlier this week at Malibu Country Mart, 3835 Cross Creek Road in Malibu, in the former home of Mr. Chow, offering up steaks, chops, seafood and cocktails. Learn more at www.luckysmalibu.com.
UPDATE: Siblings Bakery opened on January 14th
Siblings Bakery will be opening a location at 1625 E. Thousand Oaks Boulevard in Thousand Oaks in the former home of Jaime Cakes.
Siblings Bakery has an existing location in Ventura that makes custom birthday cakes, wedding cakes, specialty cakes and more.
This new location will continue the custom work as well as sell retail goodies at the store. Deepti, the owner, anticipates opening sometime in December. Learn more at www.siblingsbakery.com.
Ubatuba Acai opened a new location at the Camarillo Premium Outlets several months ago in the former Yogurtland location. Somehow I missed this.
Ubatuba offers acai bowls, empanadas (including one with Beyond Meat) and drinks. The Thousand Oaks Ubatuba has been open since spring 2015.
Otherwise at the Outlets, gone are Los Arroyos, Smashburger and PizzaRev.
Delicious looking Fatburgers
Fatburger & Buffalo’s Express recently opened a 2nd Ventura County location; this one at the Camarillo Premium Outlets, 740 E. Ventura Blvd, #220 in Camarillo. locations.fatburger.com/united-states/ca/camarillo
Fatburger was founded by Lovie Yancey in the neighborhood of Exposition Park in Los Angeles in 1947. It was originally named "Mr. Fatburger" (on behalf of Yancey's boyfriend), until the "Mr." was removed by Yancey in 1952. At that time, she bought out her start-up partners and retained sole ownership of the Fatburger brand until 1990, keeping and operating the original store on Western Avenue along with the La Cienega Boulevard store (La Cienega/San Vicente).
At select Fatburger locations (including both of our Ventura County locations), you’ll find authentic buffalo-style wings from Buffalo’s Cafe, called Buffalo’s Express
Buffalo Wings are offered either bone-in or boneless, in quantities of 6, 10, 16 or 24. Wings are served with celery, carrots & your choice of bleu cheese, ranch or honey mustard.
Fatburgers come in four sizes: Medium (Original) (1/3 lb), Large (Kingburger) (1/2 lb), XXL (Double Kingburger) (1 lb) and XXXL (Triple Kingburger) (1.5 lbs).
More information at fatburger.com.
The Thousand Oaks Fatburger on Moorpark Road opened in June 2018.
Chef Danny's Naru Bento at Janss Marketplace is now open in "soft opening" mode. Their bento boxes offer a choice of rice with 2 items, including cajun beef steak w/mushrooms, sushi, chicken, Philly steak, file mignon bites, steamed boneless beef ribs, vegetable chicken, shrimp, etc. rice bowls and other delicious sound items. Learn more at narubento.com.
Leone’s Original Italian Ices at 1696 E. Thousand Oaks Boulevard in Thousand Oaks (south side, opposite endpoint of Erbes Road) opened for business this past week.
According to their website, Greg Leone is THE Italian Ice King of California. He grew up in New York City and brought his family recipes with his family to California.
Their menu includes water ices, creme ices, organic soft serve ice cream and a variety of drinks. This sounds like a place that will be dear to my heart!
Learn more at leonesices.com. Their initial hours are 11 am to 7 pm daily.
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