Moving and Expanding

K Bakery Finds a New Home As Kim Kedeshian Expands to The Village

By SARAH SHMERLING | Managing Editor

Huntington resident Kim Kedeshian, attorney by education, considers herself a baker/chef by heritage.

She shared her skills with Pacific Palisades through K Bakery, which opened seven years ago on Sunset Boulevard in the Lower Las Casas neighborhood.

Now, by the end of the year, K Bakery will move into The Highlands, replacing Roast, which has been closed since the beginning of 2018, and Kedeshian will open a second restaurant, Armav, in The Village, according to her assistant, Alex Stern.

“We are opening a new, bigger location,” Stern shared of the K Bakery Highlands move. “We’re going to be calling it K Bakery and Marketplace.”

The team is hoping to have the 548 Palisades Drive expanded store open in September of this year. The location will serve some of K Bakery’s familiar favorites, as well as a larger selection of salads, entrees, lunches and dinners, including grab-and-go options.

If everything goes according to plan, there will be no lapse in business.

The second endeavor, Armav, will be opening at 970 Monument Street, across the street from Caruso’s Palisades Village.

“We are opening a Mediterranean-inspired restaurant called Armav, which means ‘date’ in Armenian,” Stern explained. The name pays homage to Kedeshian’s family, which has a history of date farming.

“Growing up in an American-Armenian family meant that food was an important part of my life,” Kedeshian shared on her website. “Whether it was my grandmother’s Oatmeal Date Bars or Armenian Choreg [sweet bread], my mother’s Christmas thumbprint cookies with gumdrops or Lemon Bundt Cake, or my great-grandmother’s Armenian Pilaf, it all brings back amazing memories that I have continued to share with my family.”