LA Restaurant Closures: Market & Steakhouse Face Challenges

Carla’s Fresh Market Closure

Carla’s Fresh Market– Highland Park community grocer Carla’s Fresh Market closed on September 8 after less than two years in business. Owner Ariell Ilunga connected the closure to the ongoing impacts of the movie industry slump, basic financial depression, and rotating proprietors. The market had been a regional favorite for its wine option and curated grocery store, like baguettes from Bub and Granny’s, olive oil bean salad, and generate sourced from local farmers.

Del Frisco’s Shuts Down

Del Frisco’s Double Eagle Steakhouse– Del Frisco’s Double Eagle Steakhouse shut its station in Westfield Century City at the beginning of September, reports Todrick Allen. After the closure, the Texas based upscale steakhouse does not have any locations left in The golden state. Westfield has not revealed what will enter into the previous Dual Eagle Steakhouse space.

Los Angeles’s restaurants continue to encounter tough headwinds, beginning in 2020 with the onset of a worldwide pandemic and intensifying with the Hollywood labor strikes in 2023, which led to an industry-wide slowdown that’s proceeded into 2025. Los Angeles dining establishments likewise proceed to have a hard time with the impact of the 2025 fires, including slow business and ruining residential or commercial property loss, as well as the recurring results of ICE enforcement.