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Foodies Turning to Subscription Boxes to Find New Ideas

Foodies Turning to Subscription Boxes to Find New Ideas

When the first subscription box launched, many people thought the concept would fail. They assumed that shoppers would rather visit stores, try out products for themselves and purchase things in person. Subscription boxes let customers pay one set fee and receive a new box every month, every few months or a few times a year. Some of the newest and hottest of those boxes are the ones designed for…

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Toast and Tortilla Pizza at Toast Cafe

As one might expect from a restaurant of this name, Toast Cafe offers toast in a variety of preparations, along with numerous coffee options. The menu also includes decidedly unique fare, including the pizza de tortilla. Toast’s pizza de tortilla consists of pizza toppings baked on either a whole-wheat or a white tortilla. Options range from the simple, like the Margarita Tortilla with tomato sauce and mozzarella cheese, to the complex, like the cheese-and-vegetable-laden Chef’s Pizza. The pizza de tortilla menu also provides opportunities to discover more unusual dishes, including the Tuna Pizza and the Green Pizza, which merges the flavors of goat cheese, feta cheese, pesto, and more. The pizza theme continues in the toast section of the menu, with the Bagel Pizza. Toast also offers bagels and lox with capers and onions, while its build-your-own bagel starts with a Jerusalem bagel and lets customers pick a cheese, a sauce, and two vegetables as toppings.                            

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The LA Street Food Fest Summer Tasting Event

In June 2014, the LA Street Food Fest held its fifth annual Summer Tasting Event at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena. Billed as an “adventure park for foodies,” the event brought together world-famous chefs from across the globe, as well as some of the most beloved food trucks from the Los Angeles area. Attendees had the opportunity to sample dishes from nearly 100 street food vendors and street-inspired dishes from some of LA’s top restaurants. For one all-inclusive ticket, attendees enjoyed free, all-you-can-eat samples from a wide variety of restaurants and street food stands. Guests could also sip on a cold beer or sample a signature cocktail from one of the five “Caroline on Crack Approved” bars. In addition to placing guests alongside some of the most respected food critics in the city, the Summer Tasting Event encouraged attendees to vote for their favorite food items in the Street Food Cook-Off.

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Catering from L.A.’s Marmalade Cafe

Marmalade Cafe, a favorite dining spot for Maxim Gorin, strives to offer an excellent in-house experience at its locations throughout the Los Angeles area. But those who want to bring the service and food of Marmalade Cafe to an event have an option as well: Marmalade Catering. Event catering has been a part of Marmalade Cafe’s business since it opened its doors. Its full-service catering provides everything needed for a successful event, from serving staff and private chefs to rental equipment and entertainment. Marmalade’s catering menu includes entrees like beef Wellington and spiced Moroccan chicken breast, as well as platters of cheese and vegetable crudités and hot appetizers like Southwest empanadas. Desserts such as Bundt cakes and brownies are on offer, and Marmalade makes a variety of soups and salads for events as well. Organizers looking for a less-formal option from Marmalade have choices too. Its Marmalade To Go drivers bring fresh food to corporate lunches throughout Los Angeles, and customers can drop by the restaurant’s Santa Monica location for boxed lunches and more. To find additional information, visit MarmaladeCatering.com.                            

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Recipes from Blu Jam Cafe

Run by two friends who wanted to create a restaurant in Hollywood where local, organic food was affordable, Blu Jam Cafe has been serving customers on Melrose Avenue since 2006. The restaurant has expanded over its eight years in business, opening new locations and a catering operation. Its chef has also posted some of his recipes online. To find the recipes, visit www.blujamcafe.com. Look for the “Kamil’s Kitchen” link, which will bring you to the restaurant’s blog. Once there, you’ll start seeing recipes from as far back as 2011.

Some of the recipes come with little personal touches from Chef Kamil. You can find, for instance, “my wife’s favorite veggie recipe,” a seared zucchini dish flavored with balsamic vinegar and olive oil, then sprinkled with cheese. Or you can read a recipe for shrimp ceviche that was contributed to KCET in 2012 to help locals prepare menus for Cinco de Mayo. Vegans can find a kale recipe suitable to their diet, while budding chefs in search of American classics can reproduce Kamil’s chicken soup and okra recipes.                                 

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Commissary Provides a Unique Vegetable-Based Dining Experience

Located at the Line Hotel in the heart of Los Angeles’ Koreatown, Commissary represents the fourth and final restaurant concept from chef Roy Choi. Nestled comfortably inside a beautiful glass greenhouse, Commissary focuses primarily on dishes involving fruits and vegetables, but falls short of calling itself an actual vegetarian restaurant. Like many of Roy Choi’s other establishments in the Los Angeles area, Commissary uses locally sourced ingredients and pays tribute to people and families working on the farms. One of the most unique aspects of Commissary is the menu, which includes simple, hand-drawn pictures of vegetables and other items in each dish. Guests have the opportunity to match vegetables and sauces or select from dishes such as radishes with butter, grilled corn with crushed red chili pepper, and grilled radicchio and romaine with bacon. The drink menu is crafted by Matt Biancaniello, who uses fruit and vegetable inspirations to create cocktails such as “gin and juice” with fresh carrot, watermelon, beet, or apple juice.                            

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Roy Choi’s Pot Restaurant

One of the most eagerly anticipated restaurants among Los Angeles foodies, Roy Choi’s hot pot restaurant, known simply as Pot, offers a truly unique dining experience. Before launching Pot, Choi gained fame in the Los Angeles area for Asian fusion foods such as hot dogs with kimchi and galbi tacos. Located inside Koreatown’s boutique Line Hotel, Pot provides a chance to sample a plethora of new flavors in a fun atmosphere. The experience begins when you open the menu, which looks like a newspaper and features a giant picture of an old Burmese woman smoking on the cover. Most of the restaurant’s fresh takes on traditional Korean dishes come in traditional Korean hot pots. If the hot pot stuffed with hot dogs and ramen noodles doesn’t capture your interest, you might want to try out the kimchi fried rice with a soft-cooked egg in the middle. For dessert, retreat to the Pot Cafe or Pot Bar in the hotel lobby.                            

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La Fonda Antioquena - Delicious Colombian Food in Los Angeles

Located in the heart of Los Angeles, La Fonda Antioquena serves authentic Colombian cuisine made from the freshest ingredients. The restaurant’s owner, Germán Rodriguez, rises early each morning to claim the best ingredients and oversee the preparation of dishes based on guarded, secret recipes. Don Germán worked as a waiter at La Fonda Antioquena for eight years before he assumed the restaurant’s ownership. With this experience in waiting tables, he ensures that the restaurant meets only the highest standards of service. The restaurant’s kitchen prepares many Colombian favorites acclaimed by expats from that country, as well as Los Angeles visitors and residents. These dishes include chicharron, deep fried pork rinds; pasteles de yuca, a dish similar to a tamale and made primarily of yuca; and arepas, a maize-dough flatbread. Traditional entrees include pollo al ajillo, churrasco, and sancocho de pescado. Individuals new to Colombian cuisine should opt for the banedja paisa, a traditional dish that combines many typical foods from the country on a single plate.