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May 17

Aroma Cafe (Overland)

Favorite Food Entries + Food 11: West LA

The family owned Bosnian place Aroma Cafe (see old post here) is one place I often remember fondly and wanted to come back again and again, not only because of the absolutely delicious and exotic-yet-comforting mediterranean delicacies, but most of all it felt Escape-from-LA in there.

Turkish coffee. Rich and velvety, almost Belgian hot chocolate like~

From the grilled menu: Cevapi Kebab sandwich with peppered onion on the side. It taste much better than it looks. The kebab meat are incredibly light and airy, bursting with juice and flavors. The homemade bread are so good.

Deeply flavored Grilled Peppers and from the pita menu: Burek with meat. Very crispy and moist Croissant-ish crust with tasty grounded meat, herbs and potatoes inside. The waitress told us usually they'd have cheese ones and supposedly even better.

Hurmashice: sugar-syrup soaked cake with walnuts. Taste a bit like cake version of Baklava . Smell wonderful~

We love everything. We still have many things (the entree menu!) haven't tried yet. But most of all I love quietness and warmth. By the way, they made their own bread and pastries, bread-lovers MUST visit.

Aroma Cafe 310-836-2919
2530 Overland Ave., Los Angeles, CA

Freda | May 17, 2007 08:19 PM

Comments:

Hey david! I just came back from New York for a weekend getaway, but it's more of a girls night out thing so we're always at chichi restaurants/bars. I can't wait to go back for some real local New york + brooklyn eateries.

Freda | May 24, 2007 10:23 AM

freda you're on a roll! this place is good (they have a sort of discount coupon on restaurant.com. we have to keep it real chinese style!)

i like getting bosnian in new york. particularly in astoria queens and theres also one other place in midtown...

david chow | May 24, 2007 08:26 AM

Hi Mike, thanks for checking out my blog. I sure will check out yours~ :D

haha Seat, it's hard to take pictures of comfort food/sandwiches and make them look tempting haha~

Freda | May 24, 2007 05:49 AM

Great post!

As a new food blogger, I just wanted to drop by and say hey. Keep a look out for me as I grow.

Meanwhile, continue the great posts!

http://candyapples.wordpress.com

-Mike

Mike | May 22, 2007 03:31 PM

The look indeed isn't that tempting~. The reverse case of looks-can-be-deceiving. ^^;;