Pico Boulevard restaurant and bakery closed last month
By Dolores Quintana
A popular restaurant and bakery has closed for good, shifting operations to their Pico Boulevard wholesale operation.
Sadly, there is a notice of another restaurant and bakery closure that was announced through Harissa Restaurant and Got Kosher Bakery’s Instagram page as of January 23. The announcement states, “Since the beginning of the Covid and now Omicron pandemic, we have stayed open for 22 months but today, with the lack of customers, the lack of employees, the lack of revenues and the decision of the landlord to sell the building we have arrived to the conclusion that it is not possible for us to hold it any longer. We have been losing money for months and it is not possible to do more.”
The restaurant and bakery has also announced that they will be focusing on their bakery operations and become a bread company exclusively that operates out of their wholesale bakery location at 8758 Pico Blvd. In the announcement, they said that they were very proud to have inspired new kosher chefs to excel in that field and to have created a new desire for better and more diverse quality Kosher foods like “Pretzel gourmet challah, international ethnic kosher cuisines, Pareve French pastries, upscale sandwiches in schools and universities and gourmet kosher frozen entrees in Hospitals.” As a bread company, they hope to “push the barrier and raise the standards there as well.”
