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Echo Park's ELF Cafe Gets Jonathan Gold Love
The Pulitzer Prize winning critic said he doesn't do vegan, but he did recommend the popular vegan restaurant in his weekly online lunchtime chat.
Astara Calas, Scott Zwiezen and Evan Haros of Elf Cafe should be honored.
Jonathan Gold sent the musician-caterers turned restauranteurs a big thumbs-up Wednesday in his online chat for the Los Angeles Times:
Vegan Victor: I'm looking for good vegan restaurants in LA. Do you do vegan?
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Jonathan Gold: I eat vegan, but I don't DO vegan. That being said, Elf, while not strictly vegan, is quite good.
There's also a great photo of the trio in a Times gallery that you can see here.
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opened when Sunset Boulevard's Mohawk Bend, just east of Alvarado Street, was a dark throughway, punctuated only by and .
It was built on the back of the raw-food catering businesses that the owners (and musicians collective) had been running in the same space at 2135 Sunset Blvd.
Today places like , KellyGreen, and make the stretch a lively one, with the new PETA headquarters an implicit nod to all things vegan.
ELF only recently came out of hiding with a new signage.
But that hasn't kept it from being a major destination with diners, including, apparently, Mr. Gold.
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