Midtown Lunch

Photo courtesy of the Unemployed Eater

• CHAINS California Chicken Cafe has a secret menu? [Unemployed Eater]
• DTLA Guisados is coming Downtown! [LAMag]
• DTLA Men Oh Tokushima Ramen is now open [LAW]
• MELROSE Taeem is one of the 10 best cheap eats in L.A.!? [LAW]
• MELROSE Marcona’s Lomo is a great sandwich [SENY]
• WEST LA Bun Bo Hue is the best thing about NongLA [Mattatouille]

It looks like Zam Zam Market isn’t the only South Asian restaurant in Culver City with some big news these days. Thanks to this comment we were tipped off to the fact that Bawarchi, the great Vegetarian steam table famously run by a serious “Soup Nazi” Chef of sorts, is now offering meat options on their previously veggie only menu. We have long contended that Culver City has the best Indian food in Los Angeles, and Bawarchi is far and away the best of the point to what you want Vegetarian places that seem to be ubiquitous on Venice and Washington Boulevards these days. The only thing that could make it better? Meat. Or so I thought.

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After months and months of waiting Seoul Sausage on Sawtelle in West L.A. is finally opening on Saturday, but for those of you who can’t wait any longer they’ve been quietly training their staff and testing out menu items for the past two days.  L.A. has had a few chances to sample bites from the winners of the Great Food Truck Race (most notably at the L.A. Street Food Fest), but this week has been the first time I can remember that fans in L.A. can finally order a whole sausage sandwich- plus try out some of their non sausage items (short rib poutine, anybody!?)

A look at the goods (plus some of Seoul Sausage’s future plans) is after the jump…

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I’m sorry shabu shabu. I don’t how I went so long without singing your praises. I have no excuse. You are amazing and delicious and you deserve to be cheered with as much fervor as Korean BBQ or Tsukemen or any of the other great lunches that involve piles of cooked meat or dipping stuff into other stuff. Admittedly, it took me a long time to come to this realization but I’m ready to make it up to you. How does me eating at a shabu shabu place every single day for the next two weeks sound to you? Because I’m willing to sacrifice myself just to prove to you how sorry I am. And how much I love you.

Just one request. Can I make it up to you exclusively at Khan Shabu Shabu? Because I can’t imagine there’s a better lunchtime shabu shabu deal in all of Los Angeles.

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Tostada from Jesse’s Camarones. Photo by FTM

• DTLA The sicilian slice is the thing to get at Pizzanista [Squid Ink]
• DTLA You can now get dim sum for lunch in Little Tokyo!? [Brigham Yen]
• HWOOD Salt’s Cure have opened a new deli on H’wood Blvd!? [UD]
• MID CITY Taqueria Los Anaya makes a great sope [Squid Ink]
• MID CITY Jesse’s Camarones looks pretty tasty [Feed the Monster]
• WEST LA Seoul Sausage is finally opening on October 6th [Eater]