Food & Drink
The all-day spot blends Latino and Asian flavors, with a morning menu of coffee, various bowls, and sandwiches before transitioning to snackier dishes and natural wines in the evening.
The namesake dish permeates all sections of the menu: served with golden grains of fried rice, submerged in soup or herbaceous green curry, studded with bright chiles and basil leaves, and nestled alongside jade noodles and sauces.
That strategy might’ve proved too ambitious, as the company announced the closure of five Los Angeles-area stores, including Culver City, Silver Lake, Koreatown, Bunker Hill, and Westfield Topanga in Canoga Park, reports Nation’s Restaurant News.
Baik worked for years in New York City in lauded fine dining institutions like Eleven Madison Park and Chef’s Table at Brooklyn Fare and apprenticed under Nozomu Abe of Sushi Noz before moving back to Los Angeles to help at Kobawoo.
For Ávila, who dodged health department enforcement as a street vendor, dealt with flat tires as a food truck operator, and was the unofficial plumber at Angry Egret Dinette, he’s elated that the Alta California cuisine he helped build is entering its next phase.
The company has greatly expanded its footprint in the neighborhood over the past few months with Korean barbecue restaurants Quarters and Origin in Chapman Plaza, donkatsu spot Lasung, night club Terra Cotta, and more.
Hidden on the other end of a Circle K convenience store parking lot and surrounded by a small makeshift garden, the third outlet of this Vietnamese restaurant opened in Alhambra serving oxtail pho and shrimp rolls, but adds some more creative fare from owner Hanli Su’s mother, Lani Nguyen.
Draft Day will boast 40 TVs throughout their 11,000 square foot space, offering a viewing of hard-to-find-at-home games.
The amply-portioned bing su inspired by the traditional bua loi dessert comes with four accouterments for maximum customization: chewy purple rice balls, salted egg yolk sauce, sweetened condensed milk, and Biscoff cookie crumbs.
Located in the heart of Koreatown, Soot Bull Jip may seem, at first glance, like an average Korean barbecue restaurant, complete with sizzling cuts of meat on tabletop grills, gusts of smoke-filled air, and the familiar clinks of soju glasses.
Fogo’s concept all started with a family who grew up on the traditional Southern Brazilian farm in Serra Gaucha, where they learned a special beef grilling technique called “churrasco,” and decided they wanted to share it with the rest of the world.
Thankfully, Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf installed a permanent food truck just outside the front entrance in the parking lot to dispense copious amounts of caffeine and a few pastries from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily.