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Your account about porchetta may accept been formed in the hills east of Rome or at a barter anchored in Umbria, or conceivably with the fennel-scented bairn pig they sometimes serve at Sotto, the blimp roasts in the case at McCall's Meat & Fish Co. or the sandwiches from Mozza2Go. You can acquisition a lot of appropriate porchetta in Los Angeles now.
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California Fish Grill | Locations | california fish grill culver cityBut I am academic you accept never approved annihilation like the vindaloo at the new Sambar in Culver City — a accept formed about ablaze Indian spices instead of rosemary and fennel, plunked into a hot oven and broiled until the meat becomes breakable abundant to allotment with a pinkie attach and the bark hardens to a crisis that could blast your teeth. Where a guy in Arezzo ability bung you some blooming sauce, at Sambar it's served with a beginning mango chutney; a scattering of pickled okra; and soft, turmeric-stained naan instead of hard-crusted bread. But it is audibly porchetta. Can there be annihilation that screams of the new Culver City added than Tuscan-Indian fusion? I'm affectionate of cerebration not.
If you apperceive Akasha Richmond from her accomplished as a affable appearance personality or Michael Jackson's bout chef, Sambar, about ambitious, may not assume like abundant of a stretch. She advised affable abounding years ago in India and brought aback a repertoire of Ayurvedic dishes to the Golden Temple of Conscious Cookery abreast CBS. Her restaurant Akasha, appropriate bottomward the street, has consistently served things like bowls of clay beans and rice and tandoor-spiced craven wings as allotment of its avant-garde barbecue cooking.
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If Sambar's pizza-like naan aliment with broiled appearance and dupe cheese, chickpea bloom with avocado and hemp, or beets with alacrity seeds and yogurt cheese showed up at Akasha on a account of circadian specials, cipher would accept anticipation it odd in the least. Some of Sambar's best dishes — a adorable bloom fabricated with Little Gem lettuce, accomplished plums, broiled pistachios and chunks of vindaloo-spiced bacon; or a dank lamb burger with amazon chutney — would apparently accept been amid the best accustomed card items bottomward the block.
Still, the Culver City breadth is not after its Indian restaurants. The Kerala-style kitchen at Mayura is amid the best in Southern California, and the southern Indian vegetarian aliment at Annapurna occasionally verges on the first-rate. The simple vegetarian affable at Samosa House and India Sweets and Spices draws barter from the Westside and beyond, Shalimar and Bawarchi accept their fans, Jasmine puts a halal circuit on Burmese-Indian aliment and everybody misses the biryani at the backward Zam Zam, bottomward by the mosque. This is not a adjacency defective in Indian food.
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California Fish Grill - Culver City - Yelp | california fish grill culver cityBut they appear to Sambar, fatigued by the anguish music; the broiled blah anointed with cheese and cumin, and the pistachio-crusted lamb kebabs; the affable patio and the spiced craven burgers; the brittle lentil fritters and the bendable quinoa uttapam with hemp berry chutney. Sambar may represent a affectionate of Westside Indian affable filtered through Whole Foods, but the affable is no beneath appetizing for that. Does the cheese thali, with naan, smears of yogurt cheese and dupe cheese, and an array of pickles, resemble a avant-garde cheese bowl added than it does annihilation you may accept apparent in an Indian restaurant? Does the shredded-zucchini kofta meatballs assume added like article out of an Ottolenghi cookbook than out of a Gujarat kitchen? Could the sautéed Punjabi Mama greens with paneer canyon aggregation as a contorno in a Brentwood Italian restaurant? Probably. But if you appetite authenticity, you can acquisition it appropriate bottomward the street.
The cocktail affairs appearance abstract inflected by the Indian aroma cabinet, like the Maharaja, which is added or beneath a whiskey acerb with beets and allotment syrup, or the Bloody Mary-like Vegetable Wallah with cilantro and blooming tomatoes, or the Road to Rishikesh, which tastes a little like a martini brave with angelic basil bitters. There are a few wines, but you're added acceptable to end up with a bottle of Dogfish Head Namaste White or an crazily hoppy Lost Coast Indica ale.
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California Fish Grill - 219 Photos | california fish grill culver cityAkasha Richmond moves bottomward the block door, cooks (more) Indian cuisine.
LOCATION
9531 Culver Blvd., Culver City, (310) 558-8800, sambarcc.com
PRICES
Snacks, $3-$8; tandoori-style meats and vegetables, $10-$18; starters, $5-$12; curries, $8-$15; rice and dal, $3-$8; desserts, $7-$8.
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California Fish Grill - 218 Photos | california fish grill culver cityDETAILS
Lunch, 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Mondays to Fridays; dinner, 5:30 to 9:30 p.m. Sundays to Thursdays, 5:30 to 10:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays. Credit cards accepted. Full bar. City lot parking nearby.
RECOMMENDED DISHES
Saag and dupe paneer naan, bean bake-apple salad, dupe curry, zucchini kofta, pork accept vindaloo.
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