Category: Lunch

  • The Cannibal Butcher Shop & The Expo Line

    The Cannibal Butcher Shop & The Expo Line

    The Expo Line’s westward expansion to the Pacific Ocean is complete. Starting at noon today, the Expo Line will have seven new stops and a new endpoint at 4th Street in Santa Monica. Another exciting development for the Expo Line is The Cannibal. (How’s that for a segue?) This butcher shop-slash-restaurant, steps from the Culver […]

  • Paninoteca by Scarpetta

    Paninoteca by Scarpetta

    Despite being relatively close to Bay Cities Italian Deli, the Godmother of Italian sandwich shops on the Westside, I was still disappointed when Santa Monica’s Ciboteca, from the folks behind Piccolo and Hostaria del Piccolo, closed last winter after opening just earlier that year.  Coincidentally, another Italian sandwich shop backed by a higher-end Italian restaurant, […]

  • Sushi Tsujita Serving Lunch 7 Days a Week

    Sushi Tsujita Serving Lunch 7 Days a Week

    It has been nearly a half-year since my dinner omakase at Sushi Tsujita.  I haven’t been back for dinner since, but I have returned several times for lunch, where they have an assortment of chirashi/sashimi/donburi, raw fish and other ingredients, served on top of sushi rice. Special for lunch, they have $15 Chirashi Bowl that includes […]