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Santa Monica's Real Food Daily Is Closing Tonight
Real Food Daily, one of L.A.'s longest-running vegan restaurants, is closing the doors on their original location.On Monday, founder Ann Gentry posted a letter announcing the closure, thanking diners for 24 years of patronage, calling it an "an extraordinary journey."
RFD Santa Monica Is Closing. https://t.co/cmyjDmOkGW pic.twitter.com/N0svtYGfio
— Real Food Daily (@RealFoodDaily) April 26, 2016
According to Eater, the RFD in downtown Santa Monica is vacating the spot over a lease dispute with their landlord.
Opening dat RFD-SaMo. #fengshui ceremony set us in motion for 24 delicious years. @AnnGentry pic.twitter.com/0RKoSsyEA7
— Real Food Daily (@RealFoodDaily) April 27, 2016
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Fear not, people with friends from out of town who are vegetarians. Real Food Daily will continue their operations at their West Hollywood, Pasadena, and LAX locations. And Gentry says a new Santa Monica location will open sometime in 2017.
Until then, you might find little reason to venture into Santa Monica:
now there are zero reasons to go to santa monica https://t.co/WVlr8mwPMN
— greg katz (@gkla) April 26, 2016
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