This is the latest dispatch in our series focusing on how restaurants in the San Gabriel Valley are coping with the coronavirus.
Previously... Joseph Badaro was raised in Temple City but he likes to say he grew up in his mom's kitchen.
Standing at her side, he learned how to roll grape leaves and soak, boil and blend garbanzo beans.
After six years of feeding people at weddings and office parties, he was finally ready to open his own place.
He had spent months planning the menu, designing the space and securing the permits to open Hummus Labs in Pasadena.
The 33-year-old native of Temple City, where he still lives, has deep roots in the San Gabriel Valley.
He hopes to bring Hummus Labs to different locations throughout Los Angeles and to eventually franchise the company. »