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“Made and served with love” — SweetSalt Foodshop in Toluca Lake is a great new place for fancy sandwiches, salads, fabulous soups and various foodstuffs.

It’s a tiny cafe (similar to Joan’s on Third) that offers prepared salads and sandwiches to order. Devised by co-owners (& married couple) Sara Mann and Alex Eusebio, the menu is quite spectacular, in fact.

photo from their facebook page

Various salad options include Champagne Chicken with grapes; Caprese; Hearts of Palm and Organic Grains with quinoa and couscous. They also offer a plus a ‘design your own salad’ option.

Wonderful sandwich options ($8-10) include Lavender Duck Confit — incredible! – and Shiitake Truffle panino with sottocenere cheese; delectably slow-cooked Short Rib roll — truly excellent — and also a Croque Monsieur.

One cool thing — you can place your sandwich order, then, while you are waiting, walk a few doors down to Trader Joes to do a bit of grocery shopping.

How convenient is that?!

Alex in the kitchen - photo from their facebook page

Soups are offered daily and you can see what’s up on their daily twitter feed.

Likely soup options ($4/8) include Chicken Tortilla; Celery root and corn; Roasted Fennel with truffle and so on. A recent soup was Spicy Tomato & Lentil with Bacon. As they posted — “Everything is better with bacon!”

They sell imported cheeses, charcuterie and even homemade desserts such as Chocolate Caramel Bread Pudding, Chocolate Oatmeal Cookies, and a “Pack Your Knives” Crème Brulee which alludes to Alex Eusebio’s appearance on Season 5 of the competition TV show Top Chef.

Opening hours:
Monday though Friday 10am to 8pm
Saturday & Sunday 9am to 5pm

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Gift baskets and catering also available — contact them via: info@sweetsaltfood.com

SweetSalt
10218 1/2 Riverside Drive,
Toluca Lake CA
tel — 818 509 7790
fax — 818 509 8875

By MaxMillion (see more of her posts). Max Million is the nom de 'net of Pauline Adamek. Born in Sydney, Australia, Pauline has lived in Los Angeles for the past thirteen years and finds it agrees with her. She has been reviewing films and filing celebrity-based interview articles since 1991, and has filed stories from various international film festivals, including Cannes, Venice, Berlin, Toronto and Sundance. She completed a family cookbook and has also written novels for 8-12 year olds. She is the creator and host of ArtsBeatLA.