Konbi

101 Best restaurants of Los Angeles

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"#58 Akira Akuto and Nick Montgomery’s 10-seat Echo Park cafe plays out different lives on social media and in reality. Online an egg salad sandwich, cut in three and anchored around soft-boiled eggs whose yolks glow like clotted sunshine, ran amok with the restaurant’s identity. The actual experience offers far more nuance. The restaurant is daytime only. Come in the morning or early afternoon and marvel at its precision constructions modeled after Tokyo convenience store sandos, with fillings of pork or eggplant katsu with the sheerest crusts, or the fluffy strata of a dashi-seasoned omelet. Salads, including a memorable summer squash with pickled plums served in warmer months, keep pace with the sandwiches. A set breakfast — often with rotating vegetables, miso soup, broiled cod and eight-grain rice — leaves the mind clear for the day. Croissants and canelés are baked in small quantities. The staff keeps the croissants warm yet they retain an almost otherworldly flakiness; there is probably no better pain au chocolat on the West Coast. Show up much past 9:15 a.m. and you’ll likely miss it. On second thought, everyone go back to focusing on the egg sandwich. No alcohol. Street parking. Credit and debit cards only; no cash accepted."

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