Westwood's beloved pizza eatery 800 Degrees will soon open up a location in Santa Monica, the restaurant announced Thursday.
The new location, at 120 Wilshire Blvd. in downtown, is slated to open sometime in the fall. The 5,000-square-foot restaurant will be much larger than the original Westwood Village location, with 120 seats and a parking lot with nearly 90 spaces.
It will also have a stand-alone deli, takeout and retail space, where customers can purchase 800 Degrees products, like olive oil, peppers, dry pasta and cheeses. Westwood's 800 Degrees recently announced it will launch a similar takeaway location this spring. The deli at the Santa Monica location will also sell classic hot and cold Italian sandwiches.
"Since we opened our Westwood location just over a year ago, we’ve been getting requests from all over Los Angeles to open more locations," said Anthony Carron, chef and creator of 800 Degrees. "With offices, families, locals and tourists all within blocks of our location, we expect Santa Monica to be even busier for us than Westwood."
The restaurant also plans to open up a location at LAX.
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There is a beautiful park one block to the West. If that does not meet your needs then go raise some capital, buy the building from the current owner, have it demolished, and then turn it into a park. My humble view is I rather have a restaurant to which I can walk and meet my neighbors instead of the bank branch that was previously in that location. Enjoy!
two places I haven't gone near - along with downtown SM for years- Bob- what's the matter- don't like trying to park in Westwood to eat chain food? Money wins- RECALL is the only way
I've never been to 800 Degrees, but it sounds good. It's just that at 120 Wilshire, it will be the place people with money can walk to from the 261 foot tall tower at the Miramar and the same by Frank Gehry at SM and Ocean and the two 109-foot towers at the Holiday Inn. Only the rich are wanted in SM since the four rabid developers' lapdogs O'Connor, Holbrook, O'Day and Davis started operating. Meanwhile, no one south of Lincoln will be able to feel any ocean breeze anymore. Not to mention none of us have been able to leave our homes and be sure of getting anywhere 10-12 hours a day for a year or more already. We must recall these people who actually care only for their own--and their spouses', brothers', and children's--future jobs.