In this week’s batch of food news, Gado Gado reopens with a new rice table tasting menu, former Oregon Ducks football player Randall Willhite opens Poboyz Cajun Creole Kitchen, and the team behind Nacheaux plots a food hall with a speakeasy and a dessert shop. Plus, Brass Tacks Sandwiches and Café Reina say goodbye. Read on for that and more culinary updates, plus events for this weekend, like the Tater Tot Festival. For more ideas, check out our food and drink guide.
NEW OPENINGS AND RETURNS
Gado Gado
Thomas and Mariah Pisha-Duffly’s acclaimed restaurant reopens today. The Indonesian favorite will also reprise its rice table service, which was originally on the menu when Gado Gado opened, but eventually disappeared after it became less sustainable. Inspired by the Indo-Dutch tradition of the “rijsttafel” (“rice table” in Dutch), an elaborate feast of many Indonesian small plates accompanied by rice, Gado Gado’s rice table tasting will have vegan, pescatarian, and omnivorous options and will include a course of assorted snacks and bites, a main course of larger dishes with rice, and a dessert course with sweets like tapioca or sticky rice.
Hollywood District
Pickup, delivery, dine-in
