Roy Choi opens a smoothie shop, Street’s limitless sangria and plates, Scratch Bar opens

Roy Choi, the ball-cap-wearing chef behind the Kogi BBQ food truck, Chego and Sunny Spot, is opening a smoothie shop downtown called 3 World’s Cafe. The new spot will serve coffee, fruit smoothies and “smiles,” as a collaboration with Kogi BBQ, Dole Packaged Foods, Jefferson High School, CRCD and the local community, according to a public invite. “This is just a start. A smoothie stand with fresh fruit. But if you never start then how do you ever know?” wrote Choi on his website. 3310 S. Central Ave., Los Angeles.

Street, Susan Feniger’s eclectic small plates restaurant, is offering limitless sangria and small plates Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays. For $35 per person, you can eat all the dinner menu small plates you can handle and for $18, order all the pitchers of Sangria you can drink. Everyone at the table must participate in the limitless menu, and there are no to-go orders or doggie bags. The regular a la carte menu is also available. 742 N. Highland Ave, Los Angeles, (323) 203-0500, www.eatatstreet.com.

Scratch | Bar, a new restaurant by chef Phillip Lee (formerly at Wolf Cuisine, D’Cache Restaurant), opens Tuesday on La Cienega. The menu is meant to be “new American” and includes grilled octopus pasta, pig’s head with beet mustard, Scottish salmon salad and puffed smelt and bone marrow. There is a five-seat tasting bar that looks directly into the kitchen and the restaurant is decorated with items inspired by Lee’s tattoos and those of the restaurant staff. Dave Fernie (Pour Vous) will head the beverage program and pastry chef Margarita Lee will whip up the desserts. 111 N. La Cienega, Los Angeles, (310) 289-8010, www.scratchbarla.com.

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