If you're looking for a neighborhood-y backyard patio vibe, Laurel Hardware is the spot in West Hollywood. Love the vibe and big, but compartmentalized, space. Food by Chef Mario Alberto has potential (why so many kumquats?!). Can't wait to return and sit on the backyard patio (!) once they get a great wine list together...
Roast Chicken
with ham hock, tomato confit, and collard greens
Lamb Sirloin
with Beluga lentils, shishito peppers, and golden raisins
Blistered Baby Tomatoes
with burrata cheese, plum honey, and shiso-olive puree
Snap Peas
with black barley, Parmesan, and kumquat vinaigrette
Mixed Olives
with smoked almonds, feta, and garlic confit
Laurel Hardware Cocktail and Food Menus
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(Also had the Kale Salad with Quinoa, Feta and Sunflower Seed Vinaigrette. Eaten before I could get the camera focused.)
Brunch
Wake up, dress in "weekend brunch wear," pick at pastries, order eggs sunny side scrambled over easy, over medium, over hard, under Hollandaise for Benedict, omelet, no, it's "omelette," frittata, and bacon and sausage and hash browns, and short stack and tall stack and silver dollars and waffles and Belgian waffles and French toast and toast toast, and...
All that ceremony just because what you really want is an excuse to eat vodka-soaked olives and green beans at 10 AM.
{pictured above: chicken and biscuit with egg}
Scramble with Spinach and Pancetta
Pork Chop with Peaches + Fried Egg
Chicken + Biscuit + Fried Egg
Bloody Mary
Coffee
Individual shiny French Press pots, though the coffee was not very good, and so weak it tasted like hot water passed through an unwashed coffee pot (even though I let it sit for long past the server-instructed time). Peeked inside the pot and there wasn't enough coffee for how coarsely the beans were ground.
Obviously, easily fixable! Hopefully Laurel Hardware will discover Kings Road Café just up the street and start buying their beans...
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