Brian Malarkey to come to Carmel Valley

Word is that Malarkey and James Brennan are building a new restaurant in the DM Highlands Shopping Center in the old Wherehouse space. A kind of Searsucker II, one hopes? However, word is that it's going to be a steakhouse (there is supposed to be a different farm-to-table place coming to the same strip mall). And worse, word is that it's going to be called Bandit. Sorry, but foodgirl thinks this is a dumb name. My father always used the Yiddish word bandit to mean a misbehaving child. That does not sound like a good omen for fine dining in Kidsville CV, land of Pat and Oscars! But we'll see how it turns out!