{"id":168739,"date":"2024-04-25T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-25T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sunset.com\/?p=168739"},"modified":"2024-04-24T08:48:27","modified_gmt":"2024-04-24T15:48:27","slug":"kismet-los-angeles-recipes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sunset.com\/food-wine\/kitchen-assistant\/kismet-los-angeles-recipes","title":{"rendered":"This Is the Only Salmon You’ll Ever Need, Plus Other Dishes from L.A.’s Hottest Modern Middle Eastern Restaurant"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Was it the rotisserie chicken or the pickles? The falafel flecked with bright green herbs and freshly toasted spices<\/a>, fried until crackling brown, stuffed into wraps or adorning bowls dotted with pickled vegetables and lashed with zhoug? Whatever it was, word got out that Sara Kramer and Sarah Hymanson knew how to cook Middle Eastern cuisine, and folks thronged their stall Madcapra at L.A.\u2019s Grand Central Market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sarah Hymanson (left) and Sara Kramer<\/figcaption>

“Kismet” Copyright \u00a9 2024 by Sara Kramer and Sarah Hymanson. Photographs copyright \u00a9 2024 by Chris Bernabeo. Published by Clarkson Potter, an imprint of Crown Publishing Group.<\/p><\/figure>\n\n\n

L.A.<\/a> is no stranger to all the iterations of this pan-national culinary tradition, thanks to its countless rotisserie chicken shops, shawarma joints, and falafel stands, so that\u2019s saying something. It was at their second restaurant, Kismet<\/a>, an airy proper sit-down restaurant in Los Feliz, where they truly established themselves as purveyors of a third wave of Middle-Eastern-Mediterranean-Californian cooking. Their follow-up, Kismet Rotisserie<\/a>, raised the bar on a burnished spiced bird. At each of their spots they took their pan-cultural threads of dishes (labneh, za\u2019atar, flaky malawach bread) and added that (yes) Alice Waters obsession with local and fresh vegetables<\/a>, and served up shareable plates of the kind of bright and zippy plant-forward food you could eat for days: cucumber salad, fried cauliflower with caper yogurt, chile-dusted chicken skewers with radish salad, adorned with plenty of pickled vegetables and punchy versions of red and green zhoug.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Kismet<\/em> Copyright \u00a9 2024 by Sara Kramer and Sarah Hymanson. Photographs copyright \u00a9 2024 by Chris Bernabeo. Published by Clarkson Potter, an imprint of Crown Publishing Group.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n