The Antigua Swizzle includes Avua Cacha Prata, a Brazilian liqueur produced by a team of women. The Buddha Rhubarb Negroni is made with a vermouth that’s been in production since 1891, called Cocchi di Torino. Many of which flows the modern dictum that your Google search better be working well if this is what you want to pour down your throat. Indeed, the culinary journey begins with the transcontinental cocktails. It’s a trip around the world in a bunch of bowls, and the kitchen is just warming up. In the case of Nomad, there are eight specific pateras on the menu, though numerous other dishes (like the steamed mussels and the scallop ceviche) are served in round bowls.īut if you go to the Pateras section of the menu, you’ll find the very essence of Nomadic cooking - everything from a Calabrian chopped Italian salad to sweet & sour pineapple pork, from green papaya salad to grilled salmon esquites, from chimichurri steak frites to wok-seared shrimp with jasmine rice. The word is “Pateras” - a Latin word with many meanings, including a small boat, a land snail - and in this case, a small round bowl used by the ancient Greeks and Romans as their primary vessel. The menu also gives us a piece of terminology that’s new to me. The menu features an explanation of the name…and the cuisine - which could be the start of a whole new branch of cookery, using a term far more succinct than “Multi-National Eclectic.” We’re told, “What began 30 years ago as a four-month traveling trip, culminated in what is today, a menu designed to take you to many cuisines - the Mediterranean, Southeast Asia and Latin America - tied together by what a meandering, somewhat adventurous backpacker - a Nomad - would want to eat…” (And not the cuisine eaten in the superbly depressing “Nomadland” - a most impressive film that did not inspire me to eat canned goods in a remodeled van, turned into a home-on-wheels.) And what used to be Jackson’s Food + Drink has been born again as Nomad Eatery.Īs the name suggests somewhat obliquely, Nomad Eatery offers food from various and sundry parts of the world on one impressively eclectic menu. There’s a branch of longtime Chinese favorite Chin Chin. There’s the cheerful The Butcher, The Baker, The Cappuccino Maker. With the ArcLight cinema closed in the center at Rosecrans and Nash in El Segundo, what remains would be glum…were it not for the mini-handful of restaurants.
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