grocer, flower shop, and retail store.
Our Venice Businesses:
About the Gjelina Group
Named for founder Fran Camaj’s mother, Gjelina opened on Abbot Kinney Boulevard in 2008, serving locally-sourced, produce-forward food and becoming a staple in the Venice community.
Since then, our businesses have evolved with our neighborhood — with our menus guided by conversations and long-standing relationships with Southern California farmers, local ranchers, fishermen, and co-ops.
Gjusta Goods
Goods for cooking, gathering, and living — daily essentials created and curated for our restaurants, brought together in a space two doors down from Gjusta.
Gjelina Journal
Introducing Gjournals
Gjournals is a combination of long and short form stories, poems, photos, illustrations, songs, and videos that represent the melting pot that is the 400 strong Gjelina Group crew, our vendors, the customers who frequent our spaces locally and from afar, and the friends and mentors we meet along our way.
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From Chef Pedro’s Mother’s Comal to Valle
One of the greatest privileges of working with the community that we do, is the ability to travel to their home state of Oaxaca. A state filled with thousands of years of tradition. 8000 years of growing corn, 4000 years of making ceramics, and so much more.
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Family Meal: Nina’s Molaga Pudi
At our restaurants we are guided by listening and learning ...
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