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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
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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