New Kosher Restaurants Open From Pico to Beverly Hills as La Bottega Closes

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Kosher dining in Los Angeles added a Beverly Hills restaurant from chef Eyal Shani, a fourth Borekas shop, an Israeli café on Fairfax, a burger chain on Pico and a glatt kosher charcoal grill this year, and lost one of its newest arrivals.

Malka opened in late August inside the SIXTY Beverly Hills hotel at 9360 Wilshire Boulevard. It is Shani's fifth Malka, after Tel Aviv in 2018, New York's Upper West Side, West Palm Beach and Dumbo, and his first on the West Coast. Shani opened it with the Los Angeles firm Pagani Projects. Dinner is served Sunday through Thursday, reservations go through Resy, and like the other Malkas it closes from Friday evening through Saturday evening. The Los Angeles menu keeps the Queen Malka Schnitzel, chicken schnitzel stuffed with mashed potato, and adds dishes made for the city: a Melanzana, a niçoise salad and a wild King Ora salmon bruschetta.

Shani told the Jewish Journal he saw people who wanted his food but kept kosher. "So I decided to open a kosher restaurant so they could eat it too," he said. On opening night he spread a platter of hummus by hand, and a video of it drew tens of thousands of views.

Borekas Sephardic Pastries opened at 212 South Beverly Drive in Beverly Hills, its fourth location. Gal and Uzi Wizman started it in Sherman Oaks in 2022. The Nosher found lines at the original and pastries that sold out daily, each large enough to serve at least two people. The Beverly Hills menu carries the same onion-and-truffle, cheese-and-za'atar and potato-and-brown-butter pastries, plus a walnut-maple halva latte. The Infatuation listed the shop on October 14.

LevinSky, a kosher Israeli café at 1010 North Fairfax Avenue in West Hollywood, opened in the spring. It has a pastry case of burekas and paninis, breakfast plates and shakshuka, a large patio and walls lined with black-and-white photos of Tel Aviv.

On Pico, Fattoush soft-opened in early October at 6118 West Pico Boulevard under the Rabbinical Council of California. It serves 13 grilled skewers, led by an Israeli Kabob of ground beef with sumac onion for $18, and a $39 hanger steak. It is closed Fridays and Shabbat and open Sundays from 1 to 10 p.m. and Monday through Thursday from 6 to 10 p.m. Smash House Burgers, which launched in North Miami Beach in 2022, opened its first West Coast location at 8809 West Pico. Its website lists a 100 percent kosher kitchen, hours from noon to 11 p.m. Sunday through Thursday, and a 45-day grand-opening giveaway with a Rolex, $2,000 in cash and a $1,000 Sephora gift card as prizes.

La Bottega, a kosher sandwich shop that launched in May 2025, has closed, YeahThatsKosher reported in September. Its online ordering page lists 8826 West Pico Boulevard, the same address Yelp and MapQuest list for Pico Kosher Deli, which the Jewish Journal described in 2021 as a neighborhood fixture since 1968. Yelp also lists The Kosher Burger Joint at 9407 West Pico as closed. Corridor 18, a burger spot at 8532 West Pico that opened in May 2025, is still listed as open.

Costs are squeezing restaurants across Los Angeles. FOX 11 reported in May that a case of lemons has gone from $25 to $80 and tomatoes now run $110 a case, and that Black Box Intelligence found 9 percent of full-service restaurants nationwide at serious risk of closing in 2026. Those figures are not specific to kosher restaurants.

This account is not a complete count of kosher openings and closures in Los Angeles. Readers who know of one that has opened or closed this year can contact The LA Jewish Home at office@thelajewishhome.com.