Celery Salad
lemon verbena chlorophyll, habanero, sardinian sheep’s cheese
Kohlrabi, scallops, charred(?) kelp cream
pickled ??? apples, geranium oil, finger lime
Rockfish ceviche
avocado, pickled Brentwood corn, serrano, huitiacoche
Maitake and ??? potatoes
???
Tokaji//Early Girl Beurre Rouge Mussels
bread and pickled fennel (not from menu description)
Raspberry Cream ??? Cake
Thoughts
Celery salad was very interesting, had a nice bit of persistent (but not overwhelming) heat to it from the habanero. Generous portion, could easily be split 4 ways and still have more than a few bites for everyone.
Scallop dish was inventive, not sure if it totally nailed the execution. Some pretty funky flavor from what I assume was the kelp cream. Scallops themselves were very well done. Thinly-sliced pickled apples were a great accompaniment, less sure about how the kolhrabi played its part. Points for doing something pretty unusual and not totally blowing it 
Ceviche - fine but boring. A lot of technique to recreate pretty much the exact same flavor profile as a pretty typical ceviche.
Maitake and potatoes - mushrooms were excellent. Totally forgot that the potatoes while I was eating them, since they very much did not remind me of potatoes. Wish I’d taken a picture of the menu to confirm what exactly they’d done to them. Interesting preparation but not sure it’s worth a repeat.
Mussels - A+. Mussels were excellent, fennel was good, bread was outstanding (and a strong showcase of their “fermentation-driven” ethos).
Cake - good, though with the exception of the raspberry jam, a bit surprisingly “textbook” compared to the rest of the menu. Not complaining, though; it was tasty.
Not food
The patio in the back is nice, aesthetic reminds me a bit of some spaces in Venice (i.e. Gjusta). Seating isn’t super comfortable if you don’t have a chair, though - they have thin cushions on the benches but there’s no back support unless you’re in front of a wall, which still isn’t great for leaning on.
They are in fact still verifying people’s vaccination status, along with ID, which would’ve ended poorly except that one of my friends had the other’s vaccine passport on their phone.
Bill was $37 per person (no drinks). Could’ve put down another dish without trouble, though you could also just swap out the ceviche for something more substantial. Still feels like a good deal. Possibly the first place I’ve eaten at in the 3 months I’ve been here which is representative of the kind of thing that I find special about LA dining.
