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Gourmet: Gone But Not Forgotten in One L.A. Dining Room

The name lives on!
The name lives on! Photo: Mike Enenbach

We were just down in L.A. taking in some food sights, and look what we had served to us at Rivera! Chef John Sedlar’s popular downtown restaurant is both a mash-up of modern Latin cooking and a tribute to eighties chrome-covered style and whimsy. Appropriate, then, that the stencil-dusted spices on our plate were a eulogy to the bible of haute cuisine and early champion of California cooking. And this comes just a week after the last vestiges of Gourmet’s test kitchens were pushed aside to let Bon Appétit move in. Below, another plate, which featured a different stencil.

At one point, this said “Don’t Stop ‘Till You Get Enough —Madoff.” This is the after-shot. It’s like art, right?

We’ll refrain from showing you Gourmet smeared aside, because the old girl’s been through enough.

Earlier: John Sedlar’s La Playa Opening Soon on Beverly [Grub Street LA]
WTF, CHOW?: ‘S.F. Has a Lot to Learn from L.A.’ [Grub Street]

Gourmet: Gone But Not Forgotten in One L.A. Dining Room