STREET Restaurant by Susan Feniger
Average user Rating: 89
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Susan Feniger of the tv show "Two Hot Tamales" and co-owner of the Border Grill, City and Cuidad restaurants has ventured to bring the street food of the world under one roof with STREET. Sample the menu and take a culinary trip to faraway places. The menu includes street fare from places such as India, Southeast Asia and Egypt.
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85
9/14/2009
I heard mixed reviews about Street, with one of my friends referring to it as a "crash course in foreign food for white people." Certainly Street takes some liberties with traditional ethnic dishes, making them more appropriate for the mass market. The concept is interesting enough and the food enjoyable, but without the lure of unlimited alcohol at brunch there isn't enough here to bring me back.
Recommended Dishes
Turkish Doughnuts, Singapore Kaya Toast
89
7/17/2009
Jumping on the Feniger Street wagon, but only during brunch.
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Recommended Dishes
Brunch only: turkish donuts with lamb sausage, take the donuts home for the dogs, Killer bagel + deli combo plate
89
7/16/2009
Street food at Hollywood prices? Do we really need a street food restaurant in ethnic-rich LA?
All that aside, STREET caters to a different crowd and one that could use exposure to more ethnic cuisine. With that in mind, STREET does a pretty good job.
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Recommended Dishes
lamb kofta, kaya toast, cantaloupe-beet agua fresca
93
7/15/2009
Global street food from far flung corners of the world gathered together in one kitchen, on one table, and in one stomach? Is it dazzlingly brilliant or it is a Cheesecake Factory with smart PR? Only one way to find out. My feet hit the pavement strolling, as did the feet of my fellow investigators and a birthday girl investigator.
The decor and graphics are fun and amusing and comfortingly like Ciudad and Border Grill gone red. Man, how much do I love the prickly pear margarita from Border Grill? Don't even ask. No one should love a blended drink so much. But this is Street. Get that straight. No margaritas. No reservations! We're Anthony Bourdain tonight. Anthony Bourdain with an intense fear of flying and a love of Western hygiene and refrigeration who has to get all his street meat in a safe neighborhood with valet parking. This is the target audience and that includes a gangload of fools.
The millet balls are STWRONG. They're all up in your nose with anise and foreign slumdog gazillionaireness. Interesting and a Hindi Statement of Intent for sure.
This singaporean toast wasn't just street. It was hood rat. I could have eaten this whole thing myself but had to share. Salty sweet never tasted so good. Coconut jam and soy sauce? Welcome to my stomach. Please to make yourself at home here. I promise not to chew gum on the subway so please don't cane me. Don't cane me bro.
Indian Vada Dumplings. Vada ving. Vada voom. Nice and crispy on the outside, substantial and rib sticking on the inside. Good stuff. Can't say I would know these were Indian as opposed to Hungarian but that could just be me.
Moldavian meatballs. Aw yeah. These were totally awesome. Ikea swedish meatballs, eat your complicated scandinavian heart out. Italian meatballs, pack your oregano and go home. I'm a Moldavian meatball partisan now.
Korean rice salad. Shockingly good. Was prepared to hate on this but it won me over with its citrusy sunny side down disposition. Weirdly familiar/unfamiliar like Jennifer Gray after her nose job.
Tatsutage Fried Chicken with soba noodle salad. I got lost on this particular avenue. The batter was thick almost like a pastry and it was surprisingly white meat. This took the high road but I wanted to cut through the alley and jump through the sewer a little.
However, the japanese pepper sauce was great and don't even get me started on the pickled radishes. Beautifully crisp and tart and crunchy they totally made up for the chicken itself.
Singapore Chile Crab with snausages and japanese yams. This, along with the unphotographed Spicy Peanut Noodles and the Moldavian Meatballs were my favorites. This was packing serious heat. We're talking Magnum .44, the most powerful handgun in the world kind of heat, and the yams and sausages seem totally random but it was a street sweeper. Fun and interactive for the whole yamily.
Susan Feniger came out and spoke to our table and a few others about some of the dishes and wanted to know if the crab legs were hard to eat with a knife and fork. She was seen in a blur of pink throughout the night cooking. Nice to see.
Beet salad. Good stuff.
Turkish Donuts and Espresso, Chocolate and Halva. Loved the latter. Liked the former. Someone looks like they had a nice birthday.
I've never eaten street food in Moldavia. In fact, I've never been to Eastern Europe nor to Singapore nor India. But I've been to Street Restaurant, so I can say, it's almost kind of like I've sort of been there, and I had pretty great time. There are no intestines here, no pigs blood soup or cobra hearts, but this is LA, we could actually find that if we wanted to. Street is more a reminder that it's a small world after all and it's not offal. In fact, it's offally nice. That's my word on the Street.
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89
The World's Almost At Your Foot . . .
6/2/2009
I was definitely amused and excited about Susan Feniger's STREET well before its opening, with its ambitious menu (tackling street food from all over the world) and the numerous coverage of its opening, with Susan overseeing pretty much everything. Props to her for making this vision come alive.
True to my expectations, the menu here looked amazing -- highlighting casual-street foods from around the world - from Singaporean kaya toast (made with coconut jam, dark soy sauce with a pan-fried egg) to a scandinavian beet & apple salad with black currants and juniper vinaigrette and an Indian plate of saag paneer (stewed spinach with housemade paneer cheese) yogurt rice and kokum daal (a tomato-y stew).
When I talked to Susan about it (who's pretty much working the floor and the kitchen all the time,) she simply said her menu highlights what she liked to eats when she travels, while also admitting that she tweaked the dishes to her liking - but to me the food still seems pretty true to the roots in the soul, even if not entirely authentic.
My favorite dishes here are definitely ones where the flavors are wonderfully layered upon one another, including the Korean mung bean pancake with a sweet-hot mustard sauce and an intense dark soy, the creamy massamun curry with sweet yam, Indian spices, and fried onions over rice, and the savory-and-sweet kaya toast that can double-duty as an interesting dessert (though their sweet list, including turkish-style doughnuts with rose hip jam and sour cream, are well-worth looking into as well.)
Not everything is a hit though, my dining companions and I are particularly saddened by the astronomically priced $16 beef pho -- which was really salty and featured limp vermicelli noodles.
Also, I have to give some cred to the staff -- I came here with a vegan friend once so I emailed an inquiry about vegan-friendly items, only to have chef-owner Kajsa e-mail back saying she has designed a special menu just for us; pretty much everything we had was amazing that night, I didn't even miss the meat/dairy/eggs.
Last but not least, great beer list and interesting soft drinks -- I'd steer clear of ordering wine though, since they're served in small cups slightly larger than shot glasses and Sanbitter bottles--it looks cute but ultimately does a disservice to the wine itself since it smells and tastes "off" due to the glassware.
Recommended Dishes
korean mung bean pancake, roasted corn w pork belly, massamun curry, saag paneer + kokum dal platter, kaya toast
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