Welcome to Friday’s Weekend Eats column, featuring some of the most exciting culinary throw-downs in L.A., made just for members of L.A. TACO.
KOUZEH ~ MID-WILSHIRE
Have you ever visited a bakery and immediately contemplated moving just so you could become a daily customer? That’s how I felt walking into Kouzeh this week.
Opened by Sahar Shomali, Kouzeh provides a geographical lesson in Iran’s regional breads and pastries, with varied offerings that highlight specialties from provinces including Yadz, Chaharmahal, Bakhtiari, Hamadan, Gilan, Tehran, West Azerbaijan, and more, in simple, stirring displays.
Shomali worked as Spago’s pastry sous chef beside Della Gossert and pastry legend Sherry Yard, and was the executive pastry chef for Suzanne Goin’s Lucques empire, as well as pastry chef for April Bloomfield’s The Hearth and Hound.