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Look Who's Cooking: Chef Laurent Quenioux to Pop Up at Starry Kitchen
Nguyen Tran, Laurent Quenioux, and Thi Tran at Starry Kitchen (Photo by djjewelz via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr)
The fun and food loving Nguyen and Thi Tran of Downtown's mostly-lunch Starry Kitchen have announced an upcoming pop-up dining event, in which their restaurant will play host to the culinary talents of Chef Laurent Quenioux. The LQ@SK event begins June 5th for a limited engagement, and will offer two nightly seatings for a $45 prix fixe menu.
The SK team explains that a chance meeting with Quenioux first connected the two culinary forces, and, now that Quenioux's Bistro LQ is no more, now was the time to join up for some foodventures.
A "test-run" held over the past few days has helped Quenioux and the Trans get ready for the LQ@SK pop-up, and led to the perfection of the dishes you'll find on the pop-up menu, like the LQ "signature dish" of Teriyaki Rabbit Albondigas + Teriyaki Foie Gras, and the LQ Boudin Noir (w/ apple compote, mashed potatoes and mustard tapioca), the latter of which Starry Kitchen patrons can order up at lunchtime in the days preceding the June 5th pop-up start.
Here are the specs of LQ@SK: Dinners will be held on Jun 5-7, 13-14, and 19-20, with more nights to be added later; the run is anticipated to last 3-6 months. There are two seatings per night (1st - 6:30p / 2nd - 8:30p). Reservations must be made through the LQ site, and will be taken on a first-come, first-served basis, and are set only when a confirmation email is received by the customer. Menu items will change at Chef Quenioux's discretion, and, notes the SK team: "No exceptions, no substitutions, and please… No cry babies."
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