Umami Mart to move, open a Japanese beer and sake tasting room in Temescal
The new digs will allow the Japanese drink and barware shop to serve alcohol and host tasting events.
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Golden Road’s Temescal beer garden is officially canned
After more than year of community backlash, the Anheuser Busch-owned, LA-based brewery has decided not to move forward with turning an empty parking lot into a beer garden.
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