Hummus alert

The L.A.Middle Eastern food renaissance continues with Hasiba, a new koshercertified, Middle Eastern restaurant from Or Amsalam and Alex Phaneuf, the duo behind Lodge Bread Co. in Culver City. The restaurant opened on Pico Boulevard near La Cienega Boulevard on Friday. Hasiba is named for Amsalam’s Moroccan grandmother, and was designed to mimic a hummusiya, an Israeli neighborhood restaurant that focuses on hummus and pita bread. At Hasiba, Amsalam and Phaneuf will serve pita made in a Wood Stone hearth oven, shakshuka and repeating bowls of hummus.