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LOS FELIZ
Los Feliz's excellent Encanto reopened this past Tuesday with a new, lighter look, menu, and management. The focus is now on playful, luxurious coastal cuisine inspired by the recipes of Baja, California, and centered around wood-fired cooking.
New dishes include a "fancy" guacamole with charcoal-roasted lobster, chorizo, and roasted corn, plus aguachile with jumbo lump crab, shrimp, and avocado, lobster-and-Spanish octopus leche de tigre, and shareable plates of flautas with Rancho Gordo beans, and macha-marinated squash.
Entrees include achiote-rubbed pollo al carbon, wood-fired branzino with pipian verde, spanish-and-cheese enchiladas, and charred skirt steak. Wood-fired entrees for the whole table to share include a bone-in-carne asada, Iberico pork fajitas, and frutos del mar starring spiny lobster, scallops, and red snapper.