{"id":3805,"date":"2025-11-24T07:49:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T07:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/2025\/11\/24\/studio-citys-tapas-eatery-unidos-the-next-industry-hotspot\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T07:49:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T07:49:06","slug":"studio-citys-tapas-eatery-unidos-the-next-industry-hotspot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/2025\/11\/24\/studio-citys-tapas-eatery-unidos-the-next-industry-hotspot\/","title":{"rendered":"Studio City\u2019s Tapas Eatery Unidos the Next Industry Hotspot?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\tChe Pe\u00f1a has been feeding the entertainment community for more than three decades. He started out at The Ivy during its paparazzi-heavy 1990s era, spending a decade at work as a busboy, runner and bartender. Then he went east to Pace, the in-the-know Laurel Canyon industry hang that\u2019s long been a second home to stars and suits. He started there as a server, rose to ma\u00eetre d\u2019 and finally became something of its mascot as the convivial general manager.<\/p>\n

\n\tNow, for the first time, he\u2019s got his own place. After leaving Pace, Pe\u00f1a has opened Studio City\u2019s 2-month-old Unidos, just steps from the Radford lot and the Art Directors Guild. Its neighbors include smash burger phenom Heavy Handed and third-wave coffee spot Yala.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tOne of several paella dishes on the menu.<\/span><\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tStan Lee<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

\n\tUnidos (11830 Ventura Blvd.) is a tapas restaurant pulling in culinary strands found from Madrid to Marbella, Barcelona to the Basque region \u2014 all through a Californian lens. In practice, this means a pan con tomate on L.A.-style artisanal sourdough bread, a Cobb salad featuring crispy jamon serrano, and a squid-ink paella with lobster.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe low-lit, snug space is tiny, intentionally so, in keeping with the small-scale bars across Spain, where pintxos<\/em> are meant to be eaten in boisterous, crowded rooms among neighbors. \u201cMy wife and I live here in Studio City,\u201d Pe\u00f1a explains. \u201cI wanted something for locals.\u201d He adds that the point of connection to The Ivy and Pace is an emphasis on coziness. \u201cPeople want to experience warmth: in the service, the space, the food,\u201d he says. \u201cThat\u2019s what Unidos is.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tThe dining<\/a> room at Unidos.<\/span><\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tStan Lee<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

\n\tThis story appeared in the Nov. 19 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. Click here to subscribe<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Che Pe\u00f1a has been feeding the entertainment community for more than three decades. He started out at The Ivy during its paparazzi-heavy 1990s era, spending a decade at work as a busboy, runner and bartender. Then he went east to Pace, the in-the-know Laurel Canyon industry hang that\u2019s long been a second home to stars […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3806,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[3760,3762,3764,2740,692,3761,3763],"class_list":{"0":"post-3805","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fashion","8":"tag-citys","9":"tag-eatery","10":"tag-hotspot","11":"tag-industry","12":"tag-studio","13":"tag-tapas","14":"tag-unidos"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3805"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3807,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3805\/revisions\/3807"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}