12081 Wilshire Blvd (West LA)Los Angeles, CA 90025(310) 479-3400
www.literati2.com
Categories: Breakfast, Cafe, Contemporary
Serves: Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner
Price Range:
Features & Services: full bar, handicap accessible, kid friendly, patio seating, smoke free, vegetarian friendly
From the restaurant's website:"On Jan. 26, [2009], Literati 2 will complete a month- long renovation, and will be open for business under the name Literati Cafe! The "coffee house" side of Literati Cafe will continue to operate in the same way it has since it opened in September of 2000, serving rentwood and West LA customers with organic coffee and tea with quick service walk-up dining. Thank you for patronage and loyalty! The full service side of the Cafe, will open under the same name as its sister next door, and will continue to offer full-service dining with a full bar. However, it will open from 8 am seven days a week, with an expanded menu, and it will be more casual than before. A newly created full breakfast menu will be available from 8 am-3 pm every Sat-Sun.
"Literati II brings a novel idea to West L.A. – great food from a talented chef at reasonable prices. ... Literati II is a breakout restaurant for the neighborhood. ... There's nothing predictable about the kitchen under Kidder."
– Los Angeles Times
"Literati is just as happy to serve you a really good pork chop as an exquisite organic salad, a stiff drink as a bottle of Viognier, and it seems as if some of the customers have practically set up their offices here beneath the framed pencils and the old photographs of Santa Monica, borrowing novels from the dining-room bookcase to read over lunch. ... Chef Chris Kidder and pastry chef Kimberly Sklar are both veterans of Campanile in the very best way, in love with woodsmoke and seasonal farmers market produce, generous portions and plenty of herbs; tapping old Mediterranean traditions and making them their own." —Los Angeles Weekly
How others rate Literati Cafe
Zagat 2009
19 food rating (good to very good)
Los Angeles Times
**1/2 (very good to excellent)
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