UMAMIcatessen (846 S. Broadway, Los Angeles, 90014) will be soft opened March 3rd in downtown LA. Get ready for a high end food court/deli with five full eateries and a full bar of 30 bottles of international wine priced at $28 (Wines on reserve will rotate), craft beers and specialty cocktails. Handcrafted cocktails will be reinventing classics and cater to UMAMIcatessen menus. (like coffee-infused cocktails.)
Chris Cosentino’s Pigg packs in all the pork you can eat with dishes like Iberico de bellota crudo (pork sushi), crispy pigs’ ears with Brainaise sauce or “Cured” bacon (15 from the US, Spain & Italy). Grab sandwiches like country pate with cornichon & mustard; hoof & mouth with pickled carrots & onions; and a liver pate with caramelized onions & arugula. Also munch on Fried Snacks like fries served with homemade “brainaise”and, of course, an Umami Burger. They now have a shrimp burger with yuzu kosho, wasabi potato salad. There’s also a doughnut-and-coffee spot serving donut’s tres leches cake and a Coffee espresso shot and a Jewish deli serving up Matzo ball soup called The Cure.
