My friends insisted we get to A-Frame when it opened (5 p.m.). Otherwise, we'd have to wait in a long line.
No wonder this place is popular. It's a relief to hunker down and eat good, unpretentious food with your fingers, not caring what a mess you make--of yourself and the table. (On the other hand, A-Frame could provide wet towels, like a Chinese restaurant. It's annoying to go all the way to the restroom when the grease level gets too high.)
We shared a lot of dishes, from furikake kettle corn (sweet, with seaweed) to dessert.
All were pretty good, but three reached the level where I would go back and order them again.
The cracklin beer can chicken comes in a dish, not a can. The meat is juicy and the skin is so crisp it really does crackle.
There's a century egg in the dish too, but I didn't get the relevance. The egg doesn't do anything for the chicken, so ignore it, unless you're addicted to Chinese food, and dip the meat in the red and green salsas that also come with it.
Then munch on kitchen fries that make ordinary French fries seem so boring you wonder why you ever liked them.
These are fried wedges of purple potatoes, yams and Korean sweet potatoes that you dip in kimchi sour cream.
The dessert to die for is the "thick ass" ice cream sandwich. What makes it a winner isn't the cinnamon ice cream inside. which is fine, but the cookies that do the sandwiching.
These are the best oatmeal cookies you could imagine.
Studded with dried cherries, they're buttery and tender, yet firm enough not to get soggy as the ice cream softens.
If I had that recipe, I'd be really, really happy.
A-Frame restaurant, 12565 Washington Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90066. Tel: (310) 398-7700.
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