BeachLife restaurant set to open in Riviera Village
by Garth Meyer A former Riviera Village liquor store has been transformed into BeachLife Grotto restaurant, to open July 24, the latest project from BeachLife Festival co-founder Allen Sanford and partners. “We took a dilapidated liquor store, which is a kind of a thing of the past, that wasn’t contributing to the community much, and adaptively reused the building,” Sanford said. Architect Miles Pritzkat, whose office is also in Riviera Village, designed the two story-white wood building, with open beams on the top-floor deck. The liquor store’s walls were kept and its slanted roof torn out. Sanford worked with Pritzkat to emulate two bygone favorites, the Admiral Risty in Palos Verdes and Millie Riera’s Seafood Grotto, which Sanford went to as a kid with his family at Avenue I and the Esplanade. The new venture in Riviera Village is helmed by chef Jacob Ramos, BeachLife Festival culinary director, with suppliers byway of restaurant partner Jeff Jones of Quality Seafood. “We can tap into his network,” Sanford said. What items will be featured? “Whatever’s fresh,” he said. The BeachLife Grotto menu includes a “Seafood Towers” section, named after the three stages of BeachLife…
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