Round 1 Delicious Is Opening a Huge Japanese Food Hall in West Hollywood

A food hall with eight high-end restaurants from Japan is headed to West Hollywood, reports L.A. Business First. Round 1 Delicious, a Japanese amusement store chain, has its eyes on the Now development in West Hollywood as the future home of a food hall with Japanese storefronts serving yakitori, sushi, and more. Round 1 already has footholds in Los Angeles with its bowling and claw machine venues, but this will be its first foray into food in the States. The food hall is slated to open later this year.

While Round 1 hasn’t announced which restaurants will feature at the new venue, according to a project page on its website, Sushi Saito, which is widely considered to be one of the best sushi restaurants in the world, will be coming to the U.S. in some form. Other restaurants listed on the site include Tempura Takiya and Ginza Jotaki. Although there have been plenty of recent restaurant arrivals from Japan, including Takagi Coffee and Bread, Espresso &, this food hall will be a first-of-its-kind concept in Los Angeles.

Raising Cane’s is headed to City Walk

Fried chicken chain Raising Cane’s is opening in the former Dongpo Kitchen space in City Walk, multiple sources report. Theme Park Obsession, a theme park account on X, posted a video of initial signage up, though no opening date has been announced.

Hot cross buns on the Westside

Buns with a cross in the middle on a marble countertop.

Hot cross buns from Jyan Isaac Bakery.

Jyan Isaac Bakery

Jyan Isaac Bakery in Santa Monica is now baking up hot cross buns for Easter. Head over to the shop for the fresh rolls spiced with cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves, dotted with dried figs, cherries, raisins, and currants. A brown sugar glaze is drizzled on top. The buns are available now through Easter.

The San Gabriel Valley’s thriving Vietnamese food scene

Former Eater LA senior editor Cathy Chaplin writes about a hub of Vietnamese restaurants in the San Gabriel Valley, which she has coined “GarViet,” for LAist. In the story, she writes about dishes like banh mi and pho, alongside rarer specialties from Central and Northern Vietnam available at restaurants like Kim Hoa Hue, Thien Tam Vegetarian Restaurant, and Hue Thai Bakery & Deli.

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