When God closes a Maria’s, he always opens another…  About a year ago I told you about Maria’s Italian Kitchen opening at 3001 Wilshire Blvd. in Santa Monica.  They had taken over the troubled space that had housed the sports bar South.  This was to be their temporary pop-up while they remodeled their Brentwood location.  And now all of you Brentwood citizens who had to drive past 328 other Italian restaurants and a city boundary to get to your beloved Maria’s can heave a collective sigh of relief: The Maria’s in Santa Monica has officially closed and the Brentwood location has reopened at 11723 Barrington Court.