{"id":187481,"date":"2026-02-21T11:52:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T11:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/187481\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T11:52:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T11:52:12","slug":"legendary-red-sauce-joint-raos-shuts-down-its-la-outpost-this-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/187481\/","title":{"rendered":"Legendary Red-Sauce Joint Rao\u2019s Shuts Down Its LA Outpost This Month"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Los Angeles outpost of New York\u2019s legendary (and famously difficult to get into<\/a>) red-sauce joint, Rao\u2019s<\/a>, will close on February 28 after more than a decade in Hollywood; Rao\u2019s initially expanded to Los Angeles in 2013. The restaurant announced the closure in a statement on its website, writing that \u201cthe restaurant\u2019s lease was officially terminated in conjunction with the property\u2019s recent sale.\u201d The statement says that while Rao\u2019s initially hoped to relocate elsewhere in the city, the increasingly challenging landscape for restaurants and ongoing impacts of both the 2023 writers\u2019 strikes and 2025 Eaton and Palisades fires have made continued operation not feasible.<\/p>\n

Rao\u2019s first opened in New York in 1896 and later expanded its brand with a line of wildly popular jarred sauces<\/a>, as well as additional restaurant outposts in Los Angeles, Miami, and Vegas, the latter of which closed in 2021. In Los Angeles, the celebrity-favorite restaurant gained a following for its homey Italian cooking with dishes such as meatballs, chicken Parmesan, and rigatoni Bolognese served in a dim, romantic dining room with white tablecloth\u2013topped tables.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s no news yet of what will occupy the Rao\u2019s space after it closes, but fans of the penne alla vodka and nonna vibes have until the end of the month for one last bowl of pasta.<\/p>\n

PJ and Friends brings a star-studded lineup of chefs to Pasjoli<\/p>\n

This spring, Pasjoli\u2019s bistro dinner series returns with a new lineup of Los Angeles chefs. Starting March 12 and running through April 23, PJ and Friends will bring chefs, including Mei Lin, Budonoki\u2019s Dan Rabilwongse, and Donna\u2019s Sathia Sun, to Pasjoli for five-course dinners, priced at $135 per person. Reservations are available on OpenTable<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Los Angeles Times\u2019 new critic pens her first review<\/p>\n

Jenn Harris, who was recently named a restaurant critic for the Los Angeles Times alongside Bill Addison, just dropped a review<\/a> of Northeast Los Angeles\u2019s Hermon\u2019s<\/a>. In the review, Harris praises the cheese-topped potato fritters and branzino, but found other dishes, like the Ode to Chez burger, more inconsistent.<\/p>\n

Beethoven Market expands to daytime service<\/p>\n

Mar Vista\u2019s Beethoven Market, which lost its ability to serve liquor earlier this year<\/a>, has just added new daytime hours and an expanded zero-proof menu. The restaurant now opens for breakfast and lunch, Wednesday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. The breakfast menu, available all day, includes dishes like cacio e pepe scrambled egg toast and lemon ricotta pancakes, while lunch brings a focaccia sandwich with mortadella and prosciutto and chicken Milanese starting at 11 a.m. Dinner continues to run from 5 p.m., seven days a week, with brunch on weekends.<\/p>\n

Tradition and ritual are the heart and soul of Italian cuisine. Since 1896, the Rao\u2019s family has believed in sharing those traditions with the community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Los Angeles outpost of New York\u2019s legendary (and famously difficult to get into) red-sauce joint, Rao\u2019s, will…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187482,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[5894,48,52,51,5895,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-187481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-intel","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-la-restaurant-closings","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}