RESTAURANT: Breadbar

These pictures are from Breadbar on Third Street, a combination restaurant/bakery serving breakfast, lunch, and dinner and selling fresh bread and baked goods.

This is kind of a bad picture, but the food was good. This was from a lunch where I ordered their chilled beet gazpacho, and my friend and I shared some sweet potato fries. The service was outstanding that day - our meal was maybe five minutes delayed and they brought us a whole bread basket and a foccacia to make up for it. We hadn't even noticed anything was wrong! So we ended up with a lot of leftovers, which this is a picture of.

This is from 4th of July weekend, when they had "build your own burger" weekend. We took the bus over to be good citizens for the holiday. For that weekend only, they had a deal where they offered a checklist of buns, meats, toppings, etc. and you could create your own burger from the ground up. Above is a skirt steak burger with chimichurri sauce.

Mine was a chicken sandwich with mozzarella and pesto. J. got the fries, I got the fruit salad. We also went home with a boatload of bread products.

The "build-your-own-burger" weekend was a special for that weekend only, but Breadbar is always having special events in addition to their regular menu. Check the website for info.

Breadbar
8718 West 3rd Street
Los Angeles, CA 90048
310 205 0124

OR

10250 Santa Monica Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90067
310 277 3770

Comments

Anyanka said…

Mmmm....carbs

CarbBar?

8:22 PM

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