Bolt, American food, plain and simple

Casual restaurants in the South Bay tend to have a visual signature that is bright and cheerful – think of Good Stuff, Scotty’s, or the Ocean Diner as examples. Even the places that aren’t explicitly beach-themed look like a place you’d go on the way to or from the sand, colorful and welcoming. Compare this with Bolt, the restaurant that opened last year at the corner of Second Street and Hermosa Avenue. The entire façade is brooding black, and though the name is on the corner of the