{"id":17788,"date":"2020-07-17T14:00:59","date_gmt":"2020-07-17T21:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/hi-lo\/?p=30000012754"},"modified":"2020-09-02T08:54:24","modified_gmt":"2020-09-02T15:54:24","slug":"addison-bixby-knolls-rasselbock-wood-salt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/hi-lo\/addison-bixby-knolls-rasselbock-wood-salt","title":{"rendered":"Wood & Salt Tavern to open soon in Bixby Knolls"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shortly before the COVID-19 pandemic, Rasselbock owner Bjoern Risse announced he was opening a second Bixby Knolls restaurant<\/a>, Wood & Salt Tavern. After months of construction and virus-related stress, the space will be soft opening Wednesday, Sept. 9, followed by a grand opening two weeks later.<\/p>\n

Bringing on Chef Brian Lavin to head the wood-fired-centric menu, Risse and his crew have departed from their German food focus\u2014beyond Rasselbocks in Long Beach and LA, they operate Wirtshaus in West Hollywood\u2014and opted to go Californian.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe moved here four years ago and we\u00a0love<\/em> this neighborhood,\u201d Risse said earlier this year. \u201cThere\u2019s people walking, the schools are great, the community is great. But as far food goes, we know what we\u2019re missing. We have great ramen [at HiroNori], great Mexican [at Lola\u2019s], great pizza [at Dutch\u2019s], but we really don\u2019t have great, modern Californian cuisine.\u201d<\/p>\n

Think grilled prawns with romesco and a charred leek salsa verde. Or grilled whole dorade with Sicilian-style caponata. Or chicken liver mousse atop a crostini with pistachios, candied dates, and mustard syrup.<\/p>\n

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Chef Brian Lavin. Photo by Sterling Reed.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It is welcomed news: Bixby Knolls\u2014like other parts of the city, especially Belmont Shore\u2014has been facing an uphill battle when it comes to harnessing new restaurant concepts allowing staples to evolve with the times, something that has only been compounded with the pandemic.<\/p>\n

Much loved Levantine food hub Baba Ghanouj\u2014the creation of George Mitri, who introduced Long Beach to food from his home country of Lebanon\u2014closed abruptly<\/a> after serving the neighborhood for a decade. On the flip side, much newer spaces haven’t lasted: Pow Wow Pizza, Maurice Yim\u2019s fusion pizza spot that attracted fans from L.A. to East Long Beach, announced their closure on a Sunday and shut its doors within a week<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And Tokyo Guild, the Japanese-centric space from Chef Takashi Sada, originally intended to be a ramen joint amid a saturation of ramen, didn\u2019t even last a year before closing up shop\u2014welcoming Risse to take over the space with Wood & Salt.<\/p>\n

Editor’s note: This piece was updated to reflect the formal opening date of the restaurant.<\/em><\/p>\n

Wood & Salt is located at 4262 Atlantic Ave.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After months of construction and virus-related stress, Bixby Knolls’ newest eatery will be soft opening the first week of August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":211,"featured_media":71143,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","inline_featured_image":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":"","_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_":"","_author_alias":"","cap-aim":"","cap-description":"","cap-display_name":"","cap-first_name":"","cap-jabber":"","cap-last_name":"","cap-linked_account":"","cap-newspack_employer":"","cap-newspack_job_title":"","cap-newspack_phone_number":"","cap-newspack_role":"","cap-user_email":"","cap-user_login":"","cap-website":"","cap-yahooim":"","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_email_html":"","newspack_email_type":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_hide_page_title":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_show_share_buttons":"","newspack_sponsor_byline_prefix":"","newspack_sponsor_disclaimer_override":"","newspack_sponsor_flag_override":"","newspack_sponsor_only_direct":"","newspack_sponsor_url":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[168],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[2691],"class_list":["post-17788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hi-lo","tag-restaurant-openings","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/211"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17788"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=17788"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=17788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}