"Little Tokyo’s casual three-year-old hangout Baldoria is set to close at the end of this week. Owner David King says that he’s ending the restaurant’s run to focus on a retail project instead. King, a Mozza alum, first opened Baldoria along San Pedro Street back in the middle of 2016 with chef Duke Gervais and barman Matt Bostick. The restaurant mostly stuck to a simple menu of snackable items like pizzas, pulled pork sliders, pastas, and charcuterie. Over time, Gervais even offered pizza making classes, and the bar kept cranking with pre-batched cocktails and a steady happy hour. Now King is moving on. In a statement sent to Eater, he says: As for what’s next, King is partnering with Bostick on a new retail-only bottled cocktail company called B&K Classic Cocktail Co. The final night of service at Baldoria will be this Sunday night, and starting now everything in the restaurant is 30% off. Sounds like it’s time for one heck of a sendoff party." - Farley Elliott
