{"id":29599,"date":"2025-10-30T02:42:26","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T02:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/29599\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T02:42:26","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T02:42:26","slug":"american-bistro-cannonball-makes-a-splash-in-south-pasadena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/29599\/","title":{"rendered":"American Bistro Cannonball Makes a Splash in South Pasadena"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph n2hx75i _1knl15h1 _1knl15h0 cej01i1\">The line out the door at 5:30 p.m. along Mission Avenue should tell you something: South Pasadena needed a restaurant like <a href=\"https:\/\/la.eater.com\/venue\/891673\/cannonball\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cannonball<\/a>. The chef and operating partner duo from places like Highland Park\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/la.eater.com\/2018\/7\/13\/17569106\/hippo-highland-park-matt-molina-opening-photos-inside\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hippo<\/a> \u2014 Matt Molina and Joe Capella, if you\u2019re keeping a rolodex \u2014 are behind <a href=\"https:\/\/la.eater.com\/2025\/6\/4\/24443249\/cannonball-restaurant-south-pasadena-matt-molina-joe-capella-opening-photos\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">this charming \u201call things for all people\u201d restaurant<\/a>. The menu throughline isn\u2019t entirely clear, going from traditional Spanish to seasonally driven Californian to\u2026 a burger, but that trend-averse timelessness still somehow resonates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph n2hx75i _1knl15h1 _1knl15h0 cej01i1\">Think \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eater.com\/dining-out\/915123\/millennial-minimalism-maximalist-cozy-dining-decor-trends\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">nostalgic tavern<\/a>\u201d \u2014 frilly curtains on the windows and a choo-choo train motif (the restaurant\u2019s location sits right on the Amtrak line), spread across two floors and a back patio. On peak evenings, every inch of the space gets packed with date nights, friends catching up, and empty-nest locals toasting to a good night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph n2hx75i _1knl15h1 _1knl15h0 cej01i1\">There\u2019s a standalone, big boy wine menu \u2014 as one might expect from this team with ties to the Silverlake Wine crew \u2014 but also an impressively diverse list of glass options and lightly riffed classic cocktails like the Raymond Hill (a manhattan with mole).<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph n2hx75i _1knl15h1 _1knl15h0 cej01i1\">Find a cool, semi-private lounge tucked away upstairs, next to the wine room, that would be perfect for a mid-size group celebration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The line out the door at 5:30 p.m. along Mission Avenue should tell you something: South Pasadena needed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29600,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[5105,48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-29599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-dining-report","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","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\/29599","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=29599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}