Owners of The Dairy breathe new life into old Alta Dena stand

Kyle Bilowitz is co-owner of the Dairy at Ocean View and Foothill in La Cañada Flintridge. But entrepreneurs and La Cañada High School graduates Kyle Bilowitz and Travis Emi — who took over the Alta Dena Dairy stand on the northeast corner of Foothill and Ocean View boulevards last October — hope to turn the classic delivery model on its head by appealing to a wider and decidedly different customer base. “What we’re trying to do is go back to what it used to be — almost a new version of a farmers market.” Cashier and La Crescenta resident Arlet Aladadyan is working hard to memorize the first names of a growing list of regulars, many of whom live nearby and make the Dairy an almost daily haunt. “I think the feel they’re going for is Silver Lake meets Monrovia, very small town, very locally focused and not some mass-produced thing.” Kyle Bilowitz serves customer Gary Tsuneishi of Tujunga. “We’re waiting for another couple now.” Neighbors Chris and Dana Griffis walked down with sons Oliver, 4, and 2-year-old Declan for what’s become a new Friday night tradition.