No Deli

There are not a lot of deli options near UCLA.  If you go down Westwood Blvd., however, toward Pico, you come to Junior’s.  According to the LA Times, however, Junior’s is going to close by the end of the year – which doesn’t give it much time to do so.

According to the LA Times‘ story, the rent was upped and business is down, resulting in the closure.

Junior’s Deli, a 53-year-old Westside staple, will close at the end of the year, narrowing the ranks of Jewish delis in Southern California. Employees, some of them multi-decade veterans of the business, learned Wednesday of the comfort food haven’s impending shutdown, a casualty of a rent dispute over the 11,000-square-foot space…

Full story at http://www.latimes.com/business/money/la-fi-mo-juniors-deli-20121226,0,6995139.story