Bavel — Los Angeles, USA
Following the success of Italian restaurant Bestia in the burgeoning Downtown Los Angeles Arts District, husband-and-wife team Ori Menashe and Genevieve Gergis have opened Bavel in the same neighbourhood, this time with a focus on Middle Eastern-Mediterranean food.
Local outfit Studio UNLTD, together with Gergis, used the bones of an old warehouse to embrace the gritty location and the current popularity of this cuisine: washed bare brick walls, oversized industrial windows and soaring sawtooth skylights provide the canvas for hanging chandelier planters and walls of greenery evoking Moroccan lattice work. Meanwhile rose gold, turquoise, saffron and tumeric hues are revealed through the custom-made floor tiles by local company Fireclay, lantern-like pedant lights and furnishings such as the upholstered banquettes and the bar stools.
Menashe has pulled together a varied menu with dishes such as the creamy duck ‘nduja hummus made from garbanzo beans and Jerusalem mix spice and served with puffy wood-fired pita; or a delicious slow-roasted lamb neck laffa schwarma stuffed with fermented cabbage, pickled turnips and tahini. Wash this down with a Nebuchadnezzar, a cocktail of lamb fat bourbon and blue plum brandy over smoked ice, to complete the experience.
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Carole Dixon is a prolific lifestyle writer-editor currently based in Los Angeles. As a Wallpaper* contributor since 2004, she covers travel, architecture, art, fashion, food, design, beauty, and culture for the magazine and online, and was formerly the LA City editor for the Wallpaper* City Guides to Los Angeles.
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