From traditional Danish flavors to elevated American fare, you will find something for everyone at Open Face Food Shop. Simply put, chef Lene Houck creates amazing menus using farm fresh, seasonal ingredients in modern, inventive pairings. Lene and her husband Mark hope that their neighbors and friends will enjoy both the food she’s lovingly created and the welcoming atmosphere surrounding it.
Homemade. Handmade. Honest.
Regular Hours:
Wed. Thurs. Fri. 11am- 5pm
Weekends 10am- 3pm
Closed Monday & Tuesday
Happy birthday, Isa!
Every day we are honored to call you our friend, our colleague and our Pod-mate. Lucky us 😀
May the coming year bring you tremendous joy and happiness. You deserve it!
Much love,
Lene, Mark and the Open Face team ( your friends)
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Yay, this sign is up!
Next step, getting the graphics in place. HYA he’s looking more and more official every day 🙂
Can’t wait to show you what we’ve found for you!
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Hi, everyone!
Its been a couple weeks since we shot this video, and by now our storage room is almost full floor to ceiling with truly amazing things.
Over the last weeks, packages have arrived from near and far; from local makers to artists from around the globe, from women owned businesses here in LA and from “impossible to get” old world craftsmen in Europe all coming to rest in this one room across the street from the restaurant.
We are SO looking forward to sharing these beautiful things with you. Follow us @hyawestadams for updates on our soft opening this coming week. Still lots to do and we’re tired, but we’re excited. See you all soon.
HYA (Here You Are) opens soon!!
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These shelves are empty for the very last time.
The boxes are unpacked, the labels are printed and starting tomorrow these empty shelves will be filled with…wonders, both large and small.
We can’t wait to show you what we’ve found. This is going to be fun!! 🤗
Lene, Mark and the HYA team
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Hi, everybody!
New brunch menu starting this weekend! The patio is warm and the food is warmer, come try the new dishes we’ve made for you😋
See you soon!
-Lene, Mark and the Open Face Team
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Happy Halloween from 1950!
Just by luck we grabbed the October 30, 1950 edition of LIFE magazine from storage and this is the first page. Amazing…
Happy Halloween to everyone, be safe tonight and we hope to see you soon!
Lene, Mark, and the open face team
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Hi, everyone!
Just wanted to let you know the restaurant will be closed tomorrow, Saturday, and Sunday to accommodate a very important private event.
While we would love to serve you as normal, we will be taking a few days to celebrate an amazing life truly worth celebrating.
We will re-open as usual next Wednesday, and we can’t wait to see you all 🙂
Thank you as always for your amazing and continued support, and we hope to see you next week!
Lene and Mark
New on the menu today, warm Fall Chicken Sandwich! Rosie’s organic chicken breast, Sundowner apples, Honeynut squash and wild arugula with warm goat cheese+ French baguette. Welcome autumn!
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Still going! It’s like the Energizer Bunny 🤪
More concrete today on our side of the street, and lots of activity on the opposite side.
in truth, this is a bigger and more extensive project than we had anticipated. At the end of the day it will be great however, so will all just have to be patient. The new crossing light is installed and next they will work on the pedestrian island and then probably repaving? The price of progress I suppose 🙂
I hope you all had a wonderful Labor Day, restful, thoughtful, and filled with gratitude for the labor and everyone’s hands. Together is how we get things done!
See you all soon, and thanks for your patience and support.
- Lene, Mark and the Open Face Team
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“Peter Piper picked a peck of… crazy hot Bulgarian Carrot peppers, then roasted them in a 600 degree pizza oven and THEN pickled them in Champagne vinegar! (Yeah yeah I know, but that’s how it SHOULD go)
What a nice day. Just the two of us in our little kitchen, figuring out a recipe or a new technique, making something awesome and laughing a lot… like old times when we first started out so many years ago 🙂
Cherry bomb peppers and rare red habaneros got their turn in the oven today too, all now ready for their next stage in life; adding a little 🔥 to something wonderful. We love pepper season.
How will they make their way into the new menu? You’ll just have to wait and see.
Watch this space, and we’ll see you all soon!
-Lene and Mark
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Today’s “construction delay“ mission… Flavor King Pluot jam!
So elegant; with a delicate sweetness from amazingly ripe fruit. The fruit is so naturally sweet, we cut down the sugar by over a third! Just incredible. I wonder if it qualifies as “health food“ now… 🙂
Next project in the pipeline is those gorgeous peppers we bought yesterday!
… And you guys thought we were sleeping in while the restaurant was closed? Nope!
How does that saying go, “No rest for the pickled”? 🙂
Thanks for your support!
– Lene and Mark
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Hot, hotter, hottest!
In order: Cherry Bombs, Bulgarian Carrot peppers, and the rare Red Habanero! Thanks to @jaimefarms and @beylikfarms for these sizzling beauties. Curious to see what we have in store for them? Stay tuned! Could be hot sauce or chili vinegar, charred chili oil or… pickles? Who knows? 😋
By the way, we haven’t forgotten about the spicy margarita recipe you asked for- it turns out that it’s a lot easier to just make the cocktail than to break it down into all it’s steps accurately. Coming soon, though!!!
Thanks as always for your patience and support as construction winds down and we work toward reopening. See you soon!
-Lene and Mark
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People often ask us, “Why do you spend so much time at the farmers market? Isn’t it all that stuff the same?”
No. Not even close.
Case in point, tonight’s mission; spicy margaritas with Bulgarian Carrot peppers (5,000 - 30,000 Scoville units). Best margarita EVER 🥳
Thanks to @jaimefarms for these blisteringly magnificent marvels. Bright, fruity… and hot AF. Perfect for this drink. Never heard of this chili? Go to the farmers market(see what I did there?)😀
Would you like the recipe? Happy to share the joy. 1st 10 requests get it. This is sooooooo good.
Welcome to pepper season! (OMG my mouth is on fire!!! Woohoo!) Support your farmers!!!
-L&M
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On another note, while it looks like street services says they are ready to start pouring concrete, they also just told us “they are a couple days behind schedule” whatever that means. (sigh)
Still a giant mess, but we’re behind this important safety project (fingers crossed they don’t hit anymore delays).
We’re looking forward to getting things back to normal… better than normal!!
Thanks for your patience and support, we’ll see you all soon🤗
-Lene, Mark and the OFFS team
So cool! The entire ripening cycle of our homegrown Fish Peppers, all within a couple inches of each other!
These long lost heirloom peppers have a mutation for albinism (check out the the white mottled leaves) which expresses itself throughout the pepper’s ripening; first white, then green and white striped, and on through the spectrum to the beautiful red here; finally ready for harvesting!
Can’t wait to try this legendary pepper with a Jalapeño to Serrano heat and a flavor like no other. Like we say around here, “spicy is nicey!”
Woohoo!
Many thanks to our friends @logansgardens for helping us find and grow this unique (and nearly lost) historic marvel. https://peppergeek.com/fish-peppers/
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Wow, getting BUSY!
Looks like this will take about a week, and they’ve already started on the opposite corner. Not quite as noisy as yesterday but pretty dirty and totally inaccessible.
Thanks for your patience everybody.
Progress!😀
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Hi, everybody! Updates!
So, remember that street construction that was supposed to happen a month ago? Well, it’s happening now! 🙂
I have to tell you, it is absolutely earsplittingly loud right now even inside the kitchen . So much dust. This is expected to go on for about a week,; after the noise and dust of cutting the concrete they will have to get the large machines in here to dig everything out, then re-pour the concrete, THEN actually grind down the street install the island and lights and resurface and… Then they have to get started on the opposite corner. Oh my goodness 🙂
At the end of the day though, this will be a safer street with bike lanes and a proper way to cross Adams. Until then we are in the middle of a full in construction zone. It’s kind of nuts.
OK, that’s todays update! We will be back open before you know it, and we miss everybody!
See you all soon,
Lene and Mark
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Hi everyone. Updates!
Despite everything, we’re still being impacted by the pandemic in ways we can’t foresee.
Between staff shortages and rising infections, it’s become increasingly difficult to run the restaurant the way we want to; with care for you and a passion for food and service.
For those reasons we have decided to keep the restaurant “on pause” for a short time.
We’re going to take the next couple weeks to revamp parts of the menu for delivery (!!) and to get our new space across the street ready.
With luck COVID numbers will come down quickly as vaccinations rise and we can get back to doing what we love; serving delicious food to wonderful people in a safe and beautiful environment.
Until then, watch this space for updates and thank a for your support.
-Lene and Mark
