I have yet to try this place, but an excited reader tipped me off that Mendocino Farms has moved west (there are two locations in downtown.)  Their website decribes this sandwich ‘market’ as wine-country inspired using local and fresh ingredients.  Chef Judy Han has created a menu that offers an interesting variety of meat, fish, veggie, and vegan choices including Drunken Goat in Paris which is herbes de provence marinated Cypress Cove goat cheese with cranberry chutney, French Brie, carmelized onion, green apple and market greens on curcama hazelnut bread and My Vegan Trip Through India, a housemade Indian spiced chickpea and spinach patty with tamarind chutney, vegan cucumber and mint raita, and spinach on ciabatta.  Sounds delicious.  They opened on April 29th.  If you’ve been, let me know your thoughts…

Mendocino Farms

4724 Admiralty Way, Marina Del Ray (310-822-2300)

Daily, 11 a.m.-9 p.m

This from a reader:

Meat-Free Mondays
What: Say no to the flesh of our fellow mammals (birds, too) and dine by the sea with three courses for $35.
Why: Strawberry gorgonzola salad, grilled truffle flatbread, and a choco-peanut butter tart never killed anybody.
When: Mon., 6-10 p.m.
Where: One Pico at Shutters on the Beach, 1 Pico Blvd., at Ocean Ave., Santa Monica (310-458-0030).