Kado...check your mail right now!

6333 W 3rd St (The Farmer's Market)
Los Angeles, CA 90036
(On the Grove side, near Sur La Table, upstairs...you'll see it ;) )
(323)923-0055
Sun-Thurs 11:30AM-10PM
Fri-Sat 11AM-11PM

It's about time they added something like this to the Farmer's Market! Tell you a funny story. We come home and we're like, dang what should we eat? I go downstairs and check our mail and in the mail is a flyer for Kado... a very good flyer. A buy one get one free tepan dinner or $20 free sushi if you order $20 or more on their sushi side flyer. So we're like... that settles that.

We head over to the Farmer's Market and were like hmmm... I wonder where it's at cause I've never seen it. It's upstairs at the eastern most side of the Farmer's Market. We head upstairs and they tell us that the restaurant is divided into 2 sections. One side is the sushi side (freshly made and put on the conveyor belt) and the other side is the teppanyaki side where the pyros hang out. Being that I like to burn things we go to the teppan side.

It's nice and dark inside which I'm sure is designed that way for maximum surprised drama when they start setting off bonfires in front of you. We sit down and order our food and hand them the coupon(says you have to on the coupon), and get this, they weren't about it at all... infact, the guy said "wow, this is an awesome deal! I hadn't seen one of these yet!"(wouldn't it be nice if THAT happened more often). I got a chicken and scallop fried rice plate while Celeste got the tuna teppan plate. Our chef engages us and we feel lucky when we look over at another chef who isn't so engaging, but he sure did love to bring the flames (every couple minutes something was getting torched like an offering up to the gods). Ours likes to have fun and just uses more flash and trickery. We enjoyed everything. It was all good and I do mean that. Our guy hooked it up! The tuna was done just how we like it, the chicken was super tender and very flavorful (I got mine spicy), and the scallops were huge and tasted like everything tasty from the sea. The veggies were just crunchy enough (man they were good) and it was just a joy. Might I mention that as shown below they hooked me up portion wise.


Our guy gives it all 2 thumbs up...so did we!

So check your mail for an incredible deal. The total came up to like 30 some odd dollars. Now here's where the comedy comes in... as we were finishing up, 3 more couple come in and all get sat together. They don't know each other but come to find out they all had the coupon. Great minds think a like. Though I didn't have any, I hear the sushi rocks as well. It's about time the Farmer's Market got a sweet sushi spot. It needed it badly. Don't forget there's free 2 hour parking with validation at the Farmer's Maket...but I'm sure you knew that already.

Tonight I'll be seeing one of the funniest guys in LA retiring one of his funniest shows. Brendan Hunt at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in Hollywood doing "5 Years in Amsterdam" for $5. Go. It starts at 8. You'll laugh...and then laugh some more when you realize this all actually happened to him.

Tomorrow I will be writing about my Pho spot in Echo park that is the junk. Yet another amazing spot I'll be unleashing on the world...mwahhhhahhhahahaha.

Cheers!

Free Drink Refills: Yes
Entree Price Range: $17 to $28 (not too shabby for teppan) USE THAT COUPON!!!

The Gumbo Pot

6333 West Third Street
Los Angeles, California 90036
Mon-Sat 9AM-9PM
Sun 10AM-7PM

I LOVE The Gumbo Pot at the historic Farmers Market on Fairfax. If you like New Orleans cooking (or haven't tried it) this is the primo spot for it. My wife and I started coming here long ago when she had a cold and was feeling not her best. She wanted something that she could actually taste since her taste buds were on the fritz. We had seen The Gumbo Pot on one our previous trips to the Farmer's Market and thought it would be the perfect spot to try, not to mention you can't get much more flavorful than cajun! We went and had some of my favorite creole this side of Texas! Now let me interject with the fact that I have eaten lots and lots of Creole cuisine from my touring across America and have tried my fair share of all that has to be offered even Gator bites and The Gumbo Pot stacks up very well to the real deal.

Their menu has a wonderful assortment of Poboys (cajun sandwiches) made on the best muffalettas I've tasted that are all fantastic (in particular I love the catfish, shrimp and crawfish poboys). They have jumbalaya that is to die for and is balanced just right. Sometimes there's a tendency to make it too packed, where it's like you're eating a plate of meat and hidden in there like Where's Waldo is the rice... but not this one! This is just a pleasure to eat down to the very last bite. Items like red beans and rice and sweet potato salad are the perfect sides to the seasoned catfish.

Located in the Farmer's Market makes it a plus due to the fact that you have free 2 hour parking with validation and you can grab dessert somewhere in the Marketplace(My personal favorite are the chocolate covered strawberries next to the old crepe place... yum!). Also if you're gift shopping it's located right next to the Grove. I love the Gumbo Pot and now is the perfect time to go on down...it's raining and it's Mardi Gras week! So go and wake those taste buds up!

Free Drink Refills: No
Entree Price Range:$6 to $9