Quick Bites: New sub shop, Portobello's moving, more big chef changes.

After earning an enthusiastic response in downtown Monterey with its first location, a new Boardwalk Sub Shop will take over the former Red's Burger Joint at 1220 S. Main St. in Salinas.

"We really like that people know the food and are excited to come," owner Terry Teplitsky says. "They get a Philly cheesesteak, and it's fresh and local."

Teplitsky and his brothers, who partnered on the original project, spent a lot of time re-creating the sandwiches that ruled their New Jersey youth.

They know the bread isn't a precise facsimile, but it's damn close, and baked locally. The other ingredients—like the Genoa salami, capicola, mortadella and provolone, lettuce, tomato, and onions raw and fried on the signature Jersey Italian sub—speak for themselves.

"The biggest compliment we get," he says, "is a lot of Jersey and Philly 'ex-pats' say it reminds them of home."

Permitting and buildout in Salinas will take a couple of months, so a conservative open date will be (hopefully) October or (more likely/at least) November.

Other food news nuggets assemble below:

• Another Salinas spot with huge sandwiches is on the way: Saltillo Mexican Deli is coming to 1590 N. Sanborn Road, where it appears it was once in business but shuttered for some reason a while back.

• Estevan Jimenez is the new executive chef/chef instructor at Rancho Cielo’s Drummond Culinary Academy. "EJ" is a California School of Culinary Arts alum and a longtime collaborator with Dory Ford at Monterey Bay Aquarium, Ventana Inn and Spa, and Aqua Terra Culinary, Inc., where he is also a partner. The Academy Dining Room will open for service on October 13.

• Sustainability leaders Scheid Vineyards have completed a new wind turbine. It's 400 feet tall, and providing 100 percent of the power at the massive vineyard. Big props to that propeller.

• Local institution Village Corner Bistro in Carmel (624-3588) has new owners in Jayesh A. Desai, Mohammad Rezai and James A. Gilbert.

• Zeph's One Stop (757-3947) has long shared space with Portobello's (753-0797) at 1366 S. Main St. in Salinas, but now PortoB's is on the move to Oldtown, with the closing date coming July 23 or 30, and the soft reopen set for early August.

• Work has begun on the promising (and long-time-coming) Cooper Molera Adobe restaurant project. Sara Rubin has the details with "Construction on Cooper Molera Adobe in downtown Monterey starts."

• Bistro Moulin (333-1200) has a fun $50 prix fixe menu for Bastille Day July 14, with highlights including spinach gnocchi, rockfish-calamari-shrimp chowder and steak tartare frites.

• The next Can I Live pop-up happens on 1pm Tuesday, July 18, at Georis Winery's gorgeous garden backlot at 4 Pilot Road in Carmel Valley with a four-course carte blanche menu by Klaus Georis, David Baron and Robb Morrell cheffing. A value at $50 (canilivelunch.bpt.me). 

• The 2018 Good Food Awards entry period is open. 

• Real Good Fish is one of 65 projects to receive significant support this year through the USDA's Farm to School Grant Program, in the form of $95,000 to support its Bay2Tray program, through which school districts can purchase locally-caught seafood.

• The annual Heirloom Tomato Lunch ($115), gets juicy Saturday, Sept. 2, at Bernardus Lodge & Spa (658-3400) via Bloody Marys, tomato ratatouille and Carmel Valley gazpacho featuring Swank Farms' certified organic heirloom tomatoes.