Baroo
Handmade pasta with celery root, celery with pickled mustard seeds, celery ash, crispy Jerusalem artichoke.
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Under the chalkboard menu at Baroo, a wooden communal table and a few desserts.
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A dish called Gim includes kamut, farro, seaweed, berries, nasturtiums, wasabi daikon and a nori chip.
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There are a few desserts at Baroo: cacao nib shortbread, chocolate-oat cookies, and sometimes profiteroles.
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You can ring the bell for service, though the restaurant is small enough that you won’t need to.
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Bibim Salad, with quinoa, bulgur, vegetables, gochujang, toasted seeds.
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A sign in Korean tells about the Buddhist monk’s bowl that gave the restaurant its name. There’s also dessert: cookies and shortbread.
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The Noorook includes kamut and farro, roasted koji ink creme, kombu dashi, rose onion pickles and fingerlime.
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Among the pickles, all house-made, that you can order to pair with your meal: watermelon rind pickles, beet pickles, kimchi.
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Kimchi fried rice at Baroo includes a 63-degree egg, basmati rice, purple potato chips, roasted seaweed and pineapple-fermented kimchi.
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Amy Scattergood is the former editor of the Los Angeles Times Food section and a former member of the Food reporting team.