New Pasadena Restaurants to Watch: Mid-November 2026

This edition of the dining roundup covers the rooms that are newest and most talked about as November approaches: the Taiwan-born bakery in Old Pasadena whose cream-cheese-stuffed bagels keep drawing long lines, the big dim sum house that moved east on Colorado Boulevard, and the double opening on Lincoln Avenue where Lodge Bread Company's fourth bakery shares a building with the forthcoming Full Proof Pizza. Every pick below was verified on October 1, 2026 against the restaurant's own page or a published review, and each entry names its neighborhood and what makes it worth your night out. Your host is Alejandro Espitia, Broker Associate and REALTOR with Apex Realty and Investments, California license 01213999, with 18+ years of experience across Los Angeles, San Bernardino, San Gabriel, and Riverside, in English and Spanish.

Miopane: the Taiwan-born bagel bakery in Old Pasadena

Miopane at 95 N. Raymond Avenue is the brand's first United States location, a Taiwan-born bakery and cafe that Eater LA reviewed this spring and called out for the line it keeps. The menu runs on cream-cheese-stuffed bagels, sweet and savory: Blueberry, Black Sesame, Matcha Crumble, and Strawberry Shortcake on the sweet side; Everything with Smoked Gouda, Jalapeno Sharp Cheddar, and Mexican Street Corn on the savory side; plus green-onion croissants, black sesame croissants, Basque burnt cheesecake, and the signature Pillow Lattes. A first-location room this polished rarely opens quietly, and the pastry case sells out on busy afternoons. Hours run Tuesday through Sunday from 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., closed Monday, and it is a short walk from Memorial Park and the Metro A Line. Call (626) 239-8348.

Lunasia Signature: the big dim sum room moves east on Colorado

Lunasia has been the local dim sum standard for years, and 2026 brought the biggest change yet: the old Lunasia Dim Sum House at 239 E. Colorado Boulevard has closed, and Lunasia Signature reopened in a larger home at 865 E. Colorado Boulevard on the East Colorado stretch, with a modern Cantonese menu of dim sum classics and a dining room built for long family tables. Pasadena Weekly covered the move as an elevation of dim sum dining in the city, and the new room keeps the hours longtime fans expect: Monday through Friday 11:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. and weekends 10:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. Weekend dim sum tables book up like they always did, so reserve ahead. Call (626) 793-8822.

Lodge Bread and Full Proof Pizza: the Lincoln Avenue double opening

The opening to watch this window is a double: Lodge Bread Company's fourth bakery, projected for early November 2026 on Lincoln Avenue at the Altadena border, next door to Homestate and Kismet, from operators Or Amsalam and Arthur Sherman. Eater LA named it the Pasadena entry in its most-anticipated fall 2026 roundup. Sharing the building is Full Proof Pizza, the Lodge Bread-affiliated New York-style pizzeria, whose own site currently reads Pasadena, fall 2026. Two serious rooms under one roof is the kind of opening that changes the walkable stretch it lands on, and it sits a short drive from both Old Pasadena and Altadena's newest bars.

Still on the list from earlier editions

For the record, the rooms from earlier editions keep their momentum: Woon Kitchen's homestyle Chinese at 1392 E. Washington Boulevard, THAIM's Old Bangkok street food at One Colorado, Love Baked Wings' oven-baked wings at 38 W. Colorado Boulevard, Dalah's modern Thai at 851 Cordova Street, Milk Brew's Japanese milk-brew coffee at 263 E. Colorado Boulevard, Neighbors and Friends: The Kitchen in South Pasadena, Cheesesteaks by Matu, UOVO's hand-rolled pasta flown in from Bologna, Bess in Sierra Madre, Wa-Iro's Hokkaido salt bread in Old Town, and KazuNori's hand rolls are all still running strong. This edition focuses on what regular readers had not seen yet, so those rooms get a one-line recap rather than a re-review.

Where the picks are verified

• Miopane, official menu and hours
• Miopane, Visit Pasadena directory
• Miopane review, Eater LA
• Lunasia Signature, official site
• Lunasia reimagined, Pasadena Weekly
• Best New Pasadena Restaurants and Food Openings, Pasadena Magazine
• The Most Anticipated Los Angeles Restaurant Openings, Fall 2026, Eater LA

What the new tables say about a neighborhood

The November wave reads as a map of the city's food districts growing in every direction: a first-location bakery from Taiwan on a Raymond Avenue side street, a dim sum institution that moved east on Colorado to sit among the new kitchens of the east side, and a double bakery-and-pizzeria opening on the Lincoln Avenue line between Pasadena and Altadena. New rooms like these are the fastest pulse of a neighborhood, and the blocks they land on are the ones with the foot traffic and the resale story that comes with it. Alejandro Espitia of Apex Realty and Investments brings 18+ years of local real estate and home financing experience to that read, in English or Spanish, for buyers, sellers, and investors across Los Angeles, San Bernardino, San Gabriel, and Riverside.

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