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New Restaurant to Open Near New York and Allen Intersection

A local chef has purchased a storefront at 1860 N. Allen Ave. and wants to start a restaurant with an interesting-looking menu.

A local resident and chef has purchased space at 1860 N. Allen Ave. to start a cafe that will serve "wild boar ragu," "duck leg confit" and "lobster mac n cheese."

Local chef Paul Ragan is in the process of applying for a beer and wine license and handling the rest of the permitting process, and hopes to start up by mid-May.  He plans to name the restaurant "AltaEats."

His planned menu, which can be viewed on right, is a little more fancy than a lot of the existing options in Altadena, and his location puts him in an area that is low on existing restaurant options, but has some other interesting local businesses.

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Ragan has lived in and out of Southern California for much of his career as a chef--he was the chef at Derek's Bistro, a Pasadena restaurant that is now closed, and spent time as a chef in Spain.  

He describes the restaurant as not having a particular ethnic focus or theme, but rather as serving "food that I like to eat."

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He had actually thought about opening up a food truck, but stumbled across the property with a "for sale" sign on it one day and thought it would be a great location to serve food.

The space where the restaurant will open formerly hosted a catering company, and before that, an eatery called "Jacks Kasbah." It is currently vacant.


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