Adobo-rubbed pork belly porchetta.
Adobo-rubbed pork belly porchetta.
We're having trouble thinking about much else, really.
And we think you'll find yourself in a similarly pleasing predicament after meeting XO on Beverly, an Asian-influenced market-meets-restaurant helmed by Faith & Flower vet Michael Hung, now open in West Hollywood.
You'll find a few points of interest between the glass walls, concrete floors, visible beams and glowing, umbrella-ish finials spread over the back wall. Interesting points like...
The market. This is where you'll pick up a little sake and beer, some house-fermented habanero plum sauce, a green curry chicken salad wrap and some sweet stuff before your Hollywood Bowl show. Correction: a lot of sake and beer.
The outdoor patio. That would be a perfect place to amass for brunch of duck leg steam buns, lemon ricotta pancakes, something called chicken pho-tza ball soup and fried chicken thighs. Not that there's a bad place to eat fried chicken.
The dining room. It looks rather elegant. And feels pretty private. Plus, there's a bar full of California wine and beer, plus cocktails made with soju and sake.
Also, the dinner menu has a quarter-pound burger with kochujang mayo, banana leaf-steamed Alaskan cod and that adobo-rubbed pork belly porchetta.
Yes, still thinking about that.