This will probably only be of interest to folks who live in Los Angeles and mainly to good friends of mine…
A few years ago on this blog, I wrote a lot about Andre's, a small Italian cafeteria here in L.A. that serves great pasta and pizza for modest prices. They were (and for the moment, still are) in a mall, half of which is being torn down to build a huge new retail and residential building. Alas, Andre's is located in the half being torn down.
Some of us were fighting to get the city not to approve the construction of this new building…and as I understand it, we did succeed in getting its size and scope to be seriously reduced. But it is now going forward. Every business in that part of the mall has closed except Andre's and Andre's will be closing July 30.
That, however, will not be the end of Andre's. No, sir or madam. It's slated to reopen this Fall at 5400 Wilshire Boulevard, an address that until recently belonged to a place called the Eleven City Deli. I just did a search and if Google is to be believed — and don't we all believe Google? — 5400 Wilshire is 1.3 miles from the old location of Andre's. I can live with that, especially if they deliver because parking ain't that great in that area.