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Type of Business: Restaurant
Cuisine:
American
Price: $$$
Rating Criteria
1. From Scratch: Serves mostly (i.e., more than half of the menu) fresh food, prepared from scratch. Does NOT rely primarily on kits or prepared/partially prepared foods from commercial food services.
Yes
2. Local/Organic: Offers at least some locally sourced and/or organically produced food and/or wild-caught seafood.
Yes
3. Pastured: Offers at least some pastured animal foods.
Yes
4. Organs: Offers some dishes made with organ meats (liver/paté, sweetbreads, heart, kidney, brains, etc.).
Not Sure
5. Cooking Fats: Cooks (sautés) in natural fats such as butter, lard, tallow, duck fat, coconut oil, or olive oil; uses lard, duck fat, or tallow for frying.
Yes
6. Bone Broth: Makes own bone broths/stocks for use in soups, stews, gravies, and sauces (does NOT use canned broth or powdered soup bases).
No
7. Seasonings: Makes most of its own seasoning mixes (does NOT use flavoring packets or MSG).
Yes
8. Salad oils: Makes most of its own salad dressings using olive oil or cold-pressed sesame oil.
Not Sure
9. Breads: Offers genuine sourdough bread.
Yes
10. Beverages: Offers lacto-fermented beverages (such as kombucha or kvass).
Yes
11. Condiments: Offers lacto-fermented condiments.
Not Sure
12. Desserts: Offers desserts made with natural sweeteners (such as raw honey, maple syrup, maple sugar, molasses, date sugar, palm sugar, coconut sugar, sorghum syrup, or malt syrup).
Yes
Rating Created by:
Hilda Gore
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Location & Contact
1700 Sunset Blvd
Los Angeles, CA
This restaurant is absolutely phenomenal. The owner used to run it as a vegan restaurant until she started farming and had her own personal a-ha about how important animals are for agriculture and our own personal health. Now she offers meat on the menu, but not just any meat! It is from local farms and/or regeneratively raised.
My friend ordered the venison melt (served on sourdough bread with meat from Force of Nature). I had the 100% grass-fed beef burger. We ordered tallow fries. They have kombucha on tap.
They are also open for breakfast and have "happy hens" and "pasture-raised eggs" on the menu.
There are so many options---including sourdough pizza and bison meatballs.
I can't wait to return!
This restaurant has received its share of protests because of the change in its menu (from meat-free/vegan to regenerative meat). I would patronize it even if the food weren't especially delicious. But both its mission and its food is fabulous! Worth a visit!