Saluzzi, Rancho Palos Verdes
The supremacy of mini-malls has created a situation not unlike that a small child experiences in the days just before Christmas. That wrapped shoebox might contain a pair of socks, a copy of some video game you’re already tired of playing, or the electronic gadget you’ve been gazing at longingly in the store window for weeks. Rattling the box doesn’t work, because toys nowadays don’t have moving parts. You’re stuck waiting for the day when you’re allowed to investigate things fully. A mini-mall space is the architectural equivalent of a shoebox, both in terms of general shape and in the way it tends to be reused endlessly for new purposes. An excellent case in point is at the Golden Cove shopping center, where almost identical spaces have been turned into a stylish Japanese restaurant, a Subway sandwich shop, a Starbucks – and the most lavishly elegant Italian restaurant in Palos Verdes. If this were a row of shoeboxes, the contents would range from cheap sneakers to thigh-high Prada boots. The metaphorical Prada boots are a restaurant called Saluzzi, which combines high style and East Coast Italian cooking in a way that is very rare on these shores. Chef Michael Saluzzi was a…
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