Kickboxing and chile roasting coming to Los Altos Village

I Love Kickboxing and Hatch Chile roasting coming to Los Altos Center

The former mattress store next to the Vape Depot in the Los Altos Center South  will be a new I Love Kickboxing gym.   The new Los Altos Village location will be the fourth  L.A. area location and 14th location in Southern California for the upscale and highly rated New York based franchiser.

   

The I Love Kickboxing gym joins the 4th District's two L.A. Fitness gyms 

(the Los Altos Village and the Traffic Circle) and Zaferia's Anytime Fitness.

I Love Kickboxing franchises cost an initial $50,000 with opening costs pushing the total franchise cost to between $200,000 to $350,000.  Special class package rate prices (coupons and introduction offers) start at around $30.

The other Southern California  I Love Kickboxing  gyms are in Agoura Hills, Corona, Escondido, Fountain Valley, Lake Forest, Redondo Beach, Roseville, La Jolla, Oceanside, Pasadena, Poway, Santa Clarita, and Yorba Linda. 

Lazy Acres roasting Hatch Chilies on Saturday

It's Hatch Chile time and the Los Altos Village Lazy Acres is roasting the popular late summer New Mexico chilies this Saturday August 12th  from 8 am to 2 pm.

Officially, "Hatch chilies" from New Mexico by that state's law must be grown in the Hatch Valley located along the Rio Grande. The New Mexico chile varieties were developed by the New Mexico State University in the early 1900's.  The chile pepper is New Mexico's state vegetable.

New Mexico chilies grown in other states are sometimes mislabeled "hatch"  for advertising purposes.  Hatch Chile aficionados know that the Hatch Valley's unique climate and soil give any variety of New Mexican chile grown there a unique taste profile. In general, the New Mexico green chile (before it ripens to red) is considered similar to an onion in being lightly pungent with subtle sweetness and smoky tastes.  When ripened red, it is described as having an added earthiness.  The heat level depends on the variety of New Mexican chile.  The first New Mexican chile cultivated by Dr. Fabian Garcia in 1913 from 14 native southwest chiles was labeled New Mexico Number 9.

Lazy Acres is selling a case of  roasted to order Hatch Chiles for $35. You can pre-order for pick-up on Saturday's roasting day.  Hatch chilies maybe frozen after roasting and being "peeled".

Other area stores are selling the chilies without roasting. Ralph's at the Traffic Circle has them on sale for 99 cents a pound.

Lazy Acres is the sister store of Bristol Farms that bought the original Lazy Acres in Santa Barbara.  The Los Altos Village store was the second Lazy Acres in the chain when it was converted from a Bristol Farms.  Encinitas has the third location with a fourth location currently being built in the Hillcrest/Mission Hills neighborhood of  San Diego.  The two San Diego locations have the new moniker-Lazy Acres Natural Market.