New pastry chefs at Ammo and BLT Steak

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At the Wednesday Santa Monica farmers market, Ammo chef Julia Wolfson was loading up on 20 pounds of Lompoc-grown rhubarb -- with her new pastry chef, Agustin Rodriguez (left). The self-taught Rodriguez, a Puerto Rico native and longtime New Yorker, spent the last two years at Applewood in Brooklyn. Which is where he met Wolfson, who previously cooked at the restaurant. Rodriguez’s desserts will debut next week, with the restaurant’s new fall menu.

BLT Steak also has a new pastry chef. Jessica Goryl takes over the dessert kitchen at Laurent Tourundel’s Sunset Boulevard restaurant from Danielle Keene, who recently left for the Little Door. A Virginia native, Goryl worked at Sibling Rivalry in Boston, then moved to the West Coast, where she was executive pastry chef for the Bayside and Bistango restaurants in Orange County. Before coming to BLT, Goryl was pastry chef at Cafe del Rey in Marina del Rey.

Ammo, 1155 N. Highland Ave., Los Angeles, (323) 871-2666. BLT Steak, 8720 W. Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, (310) 360-1950.

-- Amy Scattergood