Sunday, December 03, 2006



Gourmet Soul Food coming to Eagle Rock:


Larkin's
a contemporary soul food joint
1496 Colorado Blvd.
Eagle Rock, CA 90041
p.323.254.0934 f.323.254.2366
larkins@larkinsjoint.com

This is going to be good! They've been offering dinners and Sunday brunch by email reservation, so I can vouch for the food. The black-eyed pea caviar on toasted pita bread is an interesting appetizer. The smothered porkchops were amazingly moist and served with wonderful gravy, and the sweet potato pie with homemade vanilla ice cream was to die for.
Then, today, we had Sunday brunch. Even better than dinner. Perfectly cooked eggs, great grits, and I love grits. Pancakes were lovely, the biscuits and gravy was superb--really flavorful gravy and tender, real biscuits. The ambience is charming, friendly, "like a juke-joint," which is what the proprietors envisioned when they rescued this really awful eye-sore of a former car lot and worked their hearts out for months renovating it.
They hope to open in January. Meanwhile, email them and ask to be on their email list. Try out one of their private party dinners or brunch. And welcome these lovely people to Eagle Rock!

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