Questlove’s Mixtape: Hen & Vegan Burgers Arrive!

Mixtape’s Menu Highlights: Hen & Vegan

At Mixtape, the trademark Only the Classics Hen Sandwich comes with gluten-free crispy chicken, mayo, and dill pickles on a toasted and buttered sesame seed brioche bun. For burgers, the OGB Royale offers an option between a solitary or double hen patty, with American cheese, dill pickles, grilled onions, and lettuce, while the Backyard Barbeque burger covers the patty with bbq polish, pepper jack cheese, pickles, and ranchy slaw. The vegan Consume Your Environment-friendlies veggie burger is served with a shiitake mushroom, chickpea, and brown rice patty, plus a citrus glaze, avocado, mayo, pickles, arugula, and Sparkling wine vinaigrette.

Food Halls Evolving in Los Angeles

Mixtape signs up with a currently remarkable lineup at Neighborly, including pizza from celebrity Store of Beverly Hills, Glendale’s Mini Shish kebab, and price from recipe book writer and cook Gaby Dalkin. While food halls might once have actually been associated with nostalgia-driven shopping center food courts, they’re sculpting their own location amongst Los Angeles’s dining establishments and obtaining more respect as dining locations. Alongside Neighborly, South LA’s Mercado La Paloma is home to Michelin-starred seafood dining establishment Holbox, and soon, a new high end food hall with restaurants from Japan will open in West Hollywood.

Gluten-free poultry tenders are offered in a kid-sized or full-sized box collection, both served with waffle french fries and a Parker roll, while the full-size box adds in a black eyed pea slaw. The waffle fries and a black eyed pea slaw are likewise both offered to get as sides.

Questlove’s Inspiration & Vision

In a statement, Thompson states that Mixtape is inspired by his childhood years memories at edge joints and late-night dining establishment stops after programs. “With Mixtape, we’ve taken familiar faves and reimagined them with tidy, mindful active ingredients that don’t reduce edges,” he claims. “It’s about supplying the very same convenience and flavor you crave, simply made much better.” This isn’t Thompson’s first foray right into food– he previously opened up the now-closed fried chicken stand Hybird, and is a financier in (and vocal fan of)Impossible Foods.

Mixtape: No Beef, No Seed, No Gluten!

Multi-hyphenate musician, producer, and DJ Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson is opening up a burger place with a twist in Westlake Village food hall, Neighborly. Mixtape, which opens May 19, has all the indicators of an old-school burger joint with soft offer “Saturdaes,” double-stacked patties, and hen tenders– but without any beef, seed, or gluten oils. All the burgers at Mixtape are made with poultry or vegetable patties and served on gluten-free buns.