South Bay dining scene dishes up several new restaurants

Not to beryllium immodest, but I bash get around. Every week, I travel rumors astir tempting caller restaurants successful Central City and the Westside, on with the San Gabriel Valley, the San Fernando Valley, Long Beach and, of course, the South Bay.

And I consciousness harmless saying that there’s nary portion of Southern California that’s experiencing the explosive maturation of caller restaurants that compares with the South Bay. As a feline who eats for a living, I tin honestly accidental I tin hardly support up. But I’m skipping meal successful the hopes of being bare capable to bash the superior devour indispensable astatine blistery caller spots like:

Rex Seaside Steakhouse (Riviera Village, 221 Ave. I, Redondo Beach; 310-316-9041,www.therexsteakhouse.com) is the latest of the galore steakhouses to unfastened successful caller months, joining Eddie V’s successful El Segundo, Polanco Modern Mexican Steakhouse successful Hawthorne and Pacific Standard Prime successful Redondo Beach. I thought we were each going plant-based present successful the health-obsessed South Bay. Clearly, I’ve been misinformed. Meat rules!

So does salsa! But not conscionable accepted salsa. We’re drowning successful a oversea of modernist (or is it post-modernist?) Mexican cooking astatine newbies similar Agave Azul Kitchen & Tequila Bar (1320 Hermosa Ave., Hermosa Beach; 424-247-7471, www.agaveazulhb.com), Esperanza Cocina de la Playa (309 Manhattan Beach Blvd., Manhattan Beach; 424-422-0057, www.esperanzamb.com) and the soon-to-open Vida Modern Mexican (Rivera Village, 1723 S. Catalina Ave., Redondo Beach; eatdrinkvida.com).

And not conscionable salsa — mezcal has intelligibly knocked tequila retired of the apical rung erstwhile it comes to intoxicant of choice. You privation to beryllium modern, larn to emotion mezcal. It’s present to stay.

So is our emotion of snappy Asian cooking. Though oddly not sushi. Our sushi bars, bully arsenic they are, person settled into a acquainted and comfy regular of sashimi and exotic rolls. But there’s immoderate large Bangkok cooking to beryllium recovered astatine Nawa Thai (3713 Highland Ave., Manhattan Beach; 424-237-2180, www.nawathai.com), astonishing dumplings and noodles astatine Jiyuan Dumpling (1904 S. Pacific Coast Hwy., Redondo Beach; 310-792-6798, www.jydumplings.com) — each making trips to the San Gabriel Valley nary longer necessary.

And coming soon is Dan Modern Chinese (Manhattan Village, 3200 Sepulveda Blvd., Manhattan Beach; www.danmodernchinese.com), wherever the caller bestiary of restaurants is successful request of thing fresh. And the wildly palmy Pan-Asian Little Sister concatenation has a caller subdivision astatine Little Sister astatine the Point (The Point, 850 Sepulveda Blvd., El Segundo; 424-835-9878, www.dinelittlesister.com), continuing to marque The Point a dazzling enactment for food-in-a-mall.

There’s besides exotic Amil Nadu cooking astatine The Copper Pot (1511 S. Pacific Coast Hwy., Redondo Beach; 310-504-0777, www.copperpotla.com) — a abstraction that’s been location to galore restaurants implicit the years. Perhaps excessively many…

On the contrary, our sensation successful Italian cooking remains arsenic accepted arsenic ever, demonstrated astatine caller faces similar Avenue Italy (Riviera Village, 215 Ave. I, Redondo Beach; 310-541-0013, www.avenueitaly.com) and Mama D’s El Segundo (225 Richmond St., El Segundo; 310-640-7600, mamadselsegundo.com).

And for those looking for American and Californian cooking, some aged and new, cheque retired The Stanton (844 Hermosa Ave., Hermosa Beach; 310-372-7462, www.thestantonhb.com), The Brews Hall (73 Pier Ave., Hermosa Beach; 424-348-0800, www.thebrewshall.com) and Table Manners (1611 S. Catalina Ave., Redondo Beach; 424-946-9001, www.tablemannersredondobeach.com).

And, of course, there’s South Bay prima cook Darren Weiss astatine Fox & Farrow (1332 Hermosa Ave., Hermosa Beach; 310-937-2598, www.foxandfarrow.com) — successful the midst of 1 of the busiest edifice streets successful the South Bay.

Merrill Shindler is simply a Los Angeles-based freelance eating critic. Email mreats@aol.com.