Cadet, Sweetgreen coming to Santa Monica, Hakkasan redo

Restaurateur Jeff Weinstein (The Counter, Freddy Smalls) and chef Kris Tominaga (ex-The Hart & the Hunter) are expected to open Cadet in Santa Monica in early October. The restaurant centers around a hearth and wood-fired grill, with a menu influenced by rustic French cooking and local ingredients. There will be cocktails and a focus on “classic bartending,” with a wine and beer list featuring small producers. Open daily. 2518 Wilshire Blvd., Santa Monica.

Sweetgreen, the East Coast salad chain, will open a second Southern California location, in Santa Monica, following its announced West Hollywood store, with both scheduled to debut in early 2015. The Santa Monica Sweetgreen will be at 4th Street and Santa Monica Boulevard, a 2,500-square-foot space designed by San Francisco-based Jensen Architects featuring an open kitchen, 36 seats inside, as well as an outdoor patio and a walk-up window for take-out orders of kale Caesar salads, spicy sabzi and earth bowls. 1351 4th St., Santa Monica.

Hakkasan Beverly Hills reopens its doors on Monday after a one-year-in refresh. The modern Cantonese restaurant has “a reimagined entrance, refreshed interior and a new open-concept bar environment,” according to an announcement. The interior, originally designed by Paris-based Gilles & Boissier, now “more closely reflects the feel of Hakkasan’s flagship restaurant located in Hanway Place, London. The enhanced space features a dramatic entrance constructed with clefted ostrich slate paneling, which incorporates intermittent bronze niches filled with delicate red resin candles,” and an expanded bar. (You were expecting less clubby?) Also, in honor of China’s Golden Week holiday, from Sept. 29 to Oct. 12, Hakkasan’s international development chef, Ho Chee Boon, will create a special menu for Hakkasan Beverly Hills, including: Peking duck with caviar, a dim sum platter, spicy Szechuan rib-eye beef with enoki mushrooms, roasted crispy chicken with wild mushrooms in oyster sauce, fried rice with diced abalone, deep-fried black sesame and chocolate dumplings with ginger and yuzu tea, and a gift box with hand-made golden macarons. $138 per person. 233 N. Beverly Drive, Beverly Hills, (310) 888-8661, www.hakkasan.com/beverlyhills.