Like so many of the best dining destinations in Los Angeles, you might walk right past this place if you didn't have the address; a painting of a simple wooden spoon hanging above the front door is the unpretentious announcement that you've arrived. Located in a vintage storefront on Ninth Street between Spring and Broadway in the Fashion District, the cozy Brazilian cafe is as minimalist as...
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In Short This airy vintage storefront creates a pretty downtown oasis with a tropical Latin twist. The intimate high-ceilinged room has been updated with pale walls, cheery banana-yellow chairs, blond wood, contemporary Latin oil paintings and fresh flowers. An eclectic crowd stops in for traditional Brazilian fare like potato and salt cod croquettes, Portuguese dumplings stuffed with...
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Posted by Martha Burr
on April 21, 2009, (Edited July 24, 2007)
Every time we go to LA we stop here. The place is very clean and has an A rating. I love the sweet yam fries and they have cinnamon flavored water. My husband loves their steak sandwich and I always get the chicken sand which.
Posted by Citysearch user
on April 21, 2009, (Edited February 13, 2009)
I decided to try this place mainly because Jonathan Gold (LA Weekly) gave this Brazilian restaurant quite a good review, and it?s always a pleasure to find a restaurant where food is not only the main focus, but a labor of love. At the Wood Spoon, the owner (with the bright smile) has created a delightful little restaurant, in the middle of an admittedly shady area of downtown LA. The decor...
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Posted by Citysearch user
on April 21, 2009, (Edited July 08, 2008)
A friend had told me he wanted to take a few of us to dinner at his friend's Brazilian restaurant downtown.
My first thought, as a food snob, was: Heavy, greasy, unrefined, like a number of Brazilian restaurants across town (not the wonderful foods of Santa Theresa in Rio) . Well, I was in for a surprise.
The interior (high ceilings, cream walls, with a brown one in the far back, simple...
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Posted by Citysearch user
on April 21, 2009, (Edited June 25, 2008)