The Gateway Mall in downtown Salt Lake City is opening two new restaurants this week to help fight the rising tide of retailers who have left the established shopping complex for the new City Creek Center a few block to the east.

La Jolla Groves, which serves modern American cuisine, opened today at the south end of the mall among the center’s other sit-down restaurants. Malawi’s Pizza, so named because the owner will donate one meal to the African country of Malawi for every meal sold at the restaurant, is opening Wednesday on the mall’s second floor next to the AT&T store.

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