Spot check! In this week's Spot Check, we find a an array of colorful dumplings for home chefs, a Westside pop-up for Turkish doner kebab, and the San Fernando Valley's biggest new food hall.
Cosmic Dumplings prepares unique Eastern European pelmeni, semi-finished for home cooks to drop into boiling water. The business uses cold-pressed natural vegetable and fruit juices to dye its dumplings, which include dyes made from beets, carrots, dragon fruit, cabbage, and spinach. Creative options include a black pelmeni stuffed with salmon and shrimp, and pre-mixed packages of rainbow dumplings for the youth. You can order them direct on Instagram or find them in several local Slavic and Armenian markets.
Santa Monica Turkish cafe Lokl Haus is holding a döner kebab pop-up this Saturday evening, slicing paper thin cuts of beef from oft a slowly revolving trompo from 5 PM until it runs out. The pop-up will return this Wednesday, October 18, and again on Saturday, October 21, from 4PM on.