Lodge Bread Opens Its Pasadena Café Nov. 12, With Brentwood and Westlake Next

The sourdough bakery's fourth café has 75 seats, its own parking and dishes served only there. A pizza and pasta restaurant follows next door in January.

Lodge Bread, the sourdough bakery that began with loaves baked in a backyard and opened its first bakery in Culver City in 2015, opens its fourth on Thursday, Nov. 12, at 1951 Lincoln Ave. in Pasadena.

The Pasadena café has 75 seats, 55 inside and 20 outside, and dedicated parking, according to the company. It will be open 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday through Sunday and closed Mondays and Tuesdays.

The counter carries the Lodge Bread standards: sourdough loaves, pastries, cookies, sandwiches and the bakery's cinnamon roll. Pasadena also gets dishes the other cafés don't serve, a breakfast burrito, a grain bowl and a schnitzel sandwich, and it is the first to carry a new miso ginger chicken salad that the company says will eventually reach every location. As at every Lodge Bread, the bread is naturally leavened, made with organic flour and fermented without commercial yeast.

The building was a warehouse, and the design leans into that, pairing its raw, industrial bones with a clean, contemporary look, the company says. Architect Dan Brunn, whose work includes Funke in Beverly Hills, had the original concrete floors ground, polished and sealed rather than covered, and left the ceiling ducts exposed, painted a shade called "Intergalactic Blue" that also trims the iron window frames on the facade. Light wood booths sit on sculptural metal pedestals so the seats appear to float, and a U-shaped nook of low tables and benches sits by a large crank-operated window.

There is more coming next door. Full Proof, Lodge Bread's new sit-down pizza and pasta restaurant, is scheduled to open in the adjoining space in mid-January 2027.

Founder Or Amsalam and managing partner Arthur Sherman signed the Pasadena lease before the January 2025 fires. The company says the fires only deepened the team's commitment to the area, which sits close to Altadena, and that they hope the café becomes a gathering place for a community that is rebuilding.

Lodge Bread started by supplying loaves to local chefs before it had a shop of its own. Amsalam was a James Beard Award semifinalist for Outstanding Baker in 2017 and 2018, a StarChefs Rising Star Restaurateur in 2021 and a Zagat 30 Under 30 honoree. Besides Culver City, the company runs cafés in Woodland Hills and Beverly Hills.

Two more are on the way. A small banner outside 11740 San Vicente Blvd. in Brentwood, in the storefront Rosti Tuscan Kitchen used most recently, marks the next one; Westside blogger Todd Rick Allen spotted it and posted it Nov. 6. A Westlake Village café, at 2900 Townsgate Rd., is also listed on the company's locations page. Both are slated for 2027.

Correction, November 11, 2026: An earlier version of this story, citing a 2024 report, said Alex Phaneuf helped lead Lodge Bread. Phaneuf has not been involved in the company for several years, according to the company; Or Amsalam is its founder and Arthur Sherman its managing partner. The earlier version also did not give the Pasadena café's opening date, which is Nov. 12. The story has been updated with details from the company, and a photo illustration at the top has been replaced with a photograph of the Pasadena café.

Sources: Lodge Bread's Pasadena fact sheet, provided by the company Nov. 11, 2026; lodgebread.com, retrieved November 11, 2026; toddrickallen.com.