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What to taste, see and know at L.A.’s Maydan Market in West Adams

What to taste, see and know at L.A.’s Maydan Market in West Adams

Published by Sam Flores

Lugya’h, the counter inside Maydan Market run by Alfonso “Poncho” Martinez and Odilia Romero, began opening Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays this month at 8 a.m. Their improvisational morning menu will draw from the cuisine of Oaxaca’s Sierra Norte and the Indigenous cooking of Martinez’s Zapotec culture. The anchor dish, though, is certain: breakfast tacos. All in on Maydan Market this week I demolished a plate of them last weekend. Breakfast at Lugya’h was a late development during weekly meals I’ve had at Maydan Market over the last few months. The thrilling, overwhelming possibilities kept me returning. It all came together this week in two stories in The Times: A review of Maydan L.A., the sit-down restaurant operated by the market’s creator, Rose Previte, and a ranking of my top 10 favorite dishes so far among the other six fast-casual operators occupying the 10,0000-square-foot space. When we reach the 2030s in nearly three and a half years, I’m betting Previte’s West Adams project will stand as one of the most important culinary arrivals during this fraught …

Bill Addison reviews the live-fire feasts at Maydan L.A. in West Adams

Bill Addison reviews the live-fire feasts at Maydan L.A. in West Adams

Published by Sam Flores

First-timers arriving at the West Adams complex that Rose Previte spent six years creating can be forgiven a bit of confusion if their destination is “Maydan.” Are you headed to the food hall, or the restaurant? Maydan Market is what Previte calls the whole of her incredible 10,000-square-foot project inside a former factory for the very niche specialty of coin-collector pages. Underneath its exposed beams of wood and steel, seven dining options now orbit a central hearth wrapped in bronze. For six of the vendors — serving cuisines that encompass regional Mexican, Thai and Cal-Med — the setup is casual. Settle at a tiled table, zap the QR code and scroll through menu pages. In minutes you can be twirling a fork around pad Thai from the team behind Holy Basil and then reach with both hands for a giant, crackling wedge of L.A.’s most celebrated tlayuda. Maydan L.A., on the other hand, is the market’s sole full-service restaurant, located in the back of the space. It’s partitioned by a long, tiled bar along the …

Review: These are the 10 best dishes at Maydan Market, ranked

Review: These are the 10 best dishes at Maydan Market, ranked

Published by Sam Flores

p]:text-cms-story-body-color-text clearfix”> A catchall term like “food hall” doesn’t quite capture the essence of the multi-vendor project that Washington, D.C., restaurateur and cookbook author Rose Previte opened in October after six years of planning. “Collective”’ sounds a little, well, collectivist — but really that is closer to the communal spirit of Maydan Market. Within 10,000 square feet of a former factory in West Adams, Previte has created a space for her sit-down restaurant, Maydan L.A. (see my separate review here), and six counters each with their own visual and culinary identity, serving customers either right in front of them or at tables collected in the room’s central court. A QR-code system allows you to mix and match. Two vendors, Lugya’h and Maléna, showcase meaningful evolutions for the talents behind some of L.A.’s most iconic street foods. Golden Mountain Chicken highlights a fresh direction for the married team behind some of the city’s most innovative Thai restaurants. Sook, a combination corner shop and wine bar, and Compass Rose, an all-day cafe, express Previte’s Lebanese heritage and …