When Ma Petit Bakery & Café inauspiciously soft-opened Thursday (Nov. 13), it served only a handful of sandwiches and pastries for lunch and dinner. By this morning, chef Nary Kim, 39, had ramped up to offer her first omelets, croissants and breakfast sandwiches. Ma Petit plans to expand its offerings day by day until the bistro's official opening Nov. 24.
Located on the ground floor of downtown's Douglas Building at 3rd and Spring streets, it offers a menu of sandwiches, salads, pastas, grilled meats and, of course, pastries, that should be a welcome addition to the area's dining scene.
"When we were building this restaurant, we were looking into this area for a long time," Kim says. "Downtown L.A. is either fast food or high-class, sit-down meals, but I thought that something like Ma Petit was missing in this area." Read the rest of this entry »
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