This Monday, Gordon Ramsay opens a fresh new project at The Grove in Los Angeles. The Fat Cow is named after that familiar English way of slagging off your most grating mate or heifer-like foe. As opposed to Ramsay’s much stuffier local destination, The London in West Hollywood, this is a casual, accessible spot featuring communal tables and bearing a guise of industrial elements like reclaimed wood, red brick walls, old-school tackle, and flea-market paraphernalia, with indoor and al fresco dining for a total of 200 seats. With executive chef Mathew Woolf (previously of Chicago’s Trump Hotel and Santa Monica’s Fig) in the kitchen, the menu utilizes farmers markets for familiar tavern-friendly dishes like lobster mac and cheese, meatballs, fish and chips, chicken sticks, shepard’s pie, sandwiches, and wood-burning oven pizzas like a vodka, tomato, and mozzarella pie, along with a Fat Cow burger of short rib and wagyu, plus chopped and Niçoise “skinny cow” salads, pepper crusted long ribs, and putting the pub with the gastro, beers on draft and in bottle, at a fully equipped bar.
So, first a pub in Vegas, now a project at The Grove. Does this family-friendly mall restaurant mark a gentler, softer avenue for Ramsay? We’ll have to see. But there is a kid’s menu and soon Fat Cow will add the “Moo Bar” for milkshakes, freshly baked cookies, pastry counter, fro-yo, and soft-serve ice cream. In any case, it’s a smart step into further approachability for one of the world’s most recognizable chefs.
Fat Cow will open daily from 11:00 A.M. to 11:00 P.M., and until 1:00 A.M. Friday and Saturday, see our full slide show of the space right here and the full menu down below.
The Fat Cow at The Grove, 189 The Grove Dr. Los Angeles; 323-965-1020.
MENU
Chilled tomato and red pepper Gazpacho 9
cucumber, olive tapenade
Meatballs 12
tomato sauce, parmesan cheese
Fat Cow Chicken Strips 12
spicy dips
Ahi tuna tartare 15
baby gem, jalapeno aioli, scallions
Branzino ceviche 14
avocado, horseradish, ginger dressing
Mini Beef Sliders 12
short rib & kobe, cheddar
Charcuterie & cheese 11 pp
cured meats, farm house cheese
SALADS
Tuna Nicoise Salad 16
blue lake beans, fingerling potatoes, tuna belly
Caesar Salad 12
gem lettuce, croutons
Iceberg Wedge Salad, Fat Cow Dressing 13
neuske bacon, candied pecans, blue cheese snow
Skinny Cow Chopped Salad 13
tuscan kale, cabbage, carrot, radish, pumpkin seeds
Fat Cow Market salad 13
grilled corn, dessert apples, romaine lettuce, avocado, lemon dressing
Beets & Buratta 14
roasted beets, fresh buratta, upland cress
MAINS
FAT COW CHEESE BURGER 14
short rib & kobe burger, butter lettuce, cheddar cheese, tomato, fries
Skinny Cow Burger 14
edamame, portobello mushroom, chickpea, salad or fries
Fish and Chips 18
cod, beer batter, tartar sauce
Flat Iron Steak, Haystack Fries 22
grass fed beef, blue cheese butter
TOMATO RIGATONI 18
chilli, eggplant, mozzarella
Lobster Mac & Cheese 24
oven dried tomatoes, tarragon, parmesan
Pepper Crusted Wood roasted long rib 25 pp
waldorf salad, minted fingerling potatoes
grilled organic salmon 22
celeriac, asparagus, lemon
Gordon’s Shepherds Pie 20
braised lamb, yukon potato mash
STONE BAKED PIZZAS
Margherita 13
torn basil, parmesan, olive oil
Coppa picante, figs 16
fontina cheese, roasted garlic, roasted figs
Vodka, Tomato, mozzarella 14
buffalo mozzarella, fresh vodka sauce
Spicy sausage, burrata ,fennel 15
italian sausage, shaved fennel, fresh cheese
Mushroom, onion, three cheese 14
field mushrooms, gruyere, mozzarella, pecorino
pepperoni 14
buffalo mozzarella, tomato
SIDES
Hand cut fries 7
golden fried yukon potato
Steamed Asparagus 8
brown butter and hazelnuts
Blue lake beans, Chilli, Lime 7
market beans, yuzu, soy
Brussels Sprouts, Roasted Bacon 8
caramelized sprouts, apple cider vinegar
Mashed Potatoes 7
whipped yukon gold potatoes
Mac & cheese 8
elbow pasta, cheddar cream, truffle
KIDS
Crispy chicken fingers 9
hand cut fries, ranch dressing
Cheese burger 9
grilled fat cow beef, cheddar
Fish & chips 9
battered cod & fries
Fat Cow Grilled cheese 7
grilled cheese sandwich
Roasted Chicken Leg & Market Vegetables 9
The Moo Bar
MENU
Cookie milk ice cream sundae 9
Milk Shakes 8
Sticky toffee pudding 10
Chocolate Tart 9
Eton mess 8
Treacle tart 8
ICE CREAM SANDWICH 7
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