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Spice Table Forced to Move Due to Metro Construction, Opening Second Restaurant
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Sometimes the universe has a way of speeding up the inevitable. In the case of Downtown L.A.'s popular Southeast Asian restaurant the Spice Table, it was a plummbing issue. Last week Bryant Ng, who was deemed Food + Wine Magazine's Best New Chef of 2012, saw some major issues which impacted his kitchen and baking equipment that will force the team to stop lunch service, preparing the locals for what's to come: a forced move due to the construction of a new Metro line.
“The in-house baked Vietnamese baguettes are the soul of our lunchtime sandwich program, and because of the recent damage to our equipment, costly plumbing repairs, and impending forced move by Metro, The Spice Table will no longer be serving lunch. We remain committed to our dinner service, while we search for new spaces to relocate The Spice Table and for our new restaurant. Lunch will resume at the relocated The Spice Table, wherever that may be,” he says.
The Spice Table will continue its dinner service until it's forced to move, which should be within the next 6-12 months. In the meantime, Ng and his team will go full steam ahead with launching their second project, which had been in the works long before the Metro and plumbing issues arose. The details of that project are still TBD, but we hope that there is cereal shrimp and kaya toast involved. To lose those stellar dishes would be a really be tragedy.
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