Escala K-town

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"The Korean and Colombian flags, as well as various T shirts, hang from a wire across the ceiling. There's weathered wooden furniture, a DJ booth, graffitied walls, a disco ball, a garden fountain and various music posters hanging from the walls. The place is loud and fun, and you get the feeling everyone is having a good time as soon as you walk in. You don't go to Escala for fancy food plated in a delicate manner. You go here because you're hankering for good food—the kind your abuelita might make—full of flavors and almost falling out of the plates. You wouldn't necessarily think Korean and Colombian flavors could work well together, but somehow they do. Case in point, the K-Town Rice con Pollo, which features kimchi and coconut fried rice with peas, shredded chicken, a spicy tomato sauce and topped with a friend egg; the perfect hangover cure." - Hugh Garvey, Celeste Moure, Krista Simmons