Cookbook Market & Cafe - Larchmont
Gourmet grocery store · Larchmont
310 N Larchmont Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90004, USA
Highlights
Gourmet market with fresh produce, cafe, patio, desserts
Gourmet market with fresh produce, cafe, patio, desserts
"You shouldn’t eat things like toasted sourdough because of the current situation in your mouth, but what if said sourdough was soaked in a nourishing chicken bone broth? Call it a loophole if you want. The bread is mushy and soggy in a satisfying way, as opposed to a gross way. Maybe eat around the crust, though." - sylvio martins
"Cookbook is where anyone who cosplays Alison Roman will inevitably spend a lot of money. This white bungalow is the third and largest location of the boutique grocery store, stocked with tinned fish, biodynamic wines, and farmers' market produce spilling out of rustic baskets. The main reason to go here, however, is for a lovely al fresco lunch at the attached cafe. Curated by the Jon & Vinny folks, the menu is essentially a collection of fancy sandwich-salad-soup combos, most of which are quite good. You can take in the sunshine, slurp $14 chicken broth, and eat a buttered cheese toastie filled with caramelized leeks in true "Larchmont chic" fashion." - brant cox, sylvio martins
"At the Larchmont location of Cookbook Market — a market and café known for its fresh produce and curated home-goods selection that Joint Venture Restaurant Group acquired in 2020 — a former barista, Shatoya Allen, says she experienced race- and sex-based discrimination and wrongful termination. Hired in October 2023, Allen alleges that after a new store manager, LJ Rivas, began supervising in December 2023 she was treated with “unwarranted hostility because she is a Black woman,” including being reprimanded for talking with coworkers when non-Black coworkers were not; on January 15, 2024, Allen says Rivas cut her shift short during a Martin Luther King Jr. Day rush, and after she asked to finish tasks HR manager Sydney Susskind told her to clock out or the company would call the police. Allen alleges she replied, “You’re going to call the police on a Black employee? What are you going to do when they come and shoot me?” and that, after she clocked out and continued browsing, Rivas repeatedly told her to “get out” and called the police; she left before officers arrived, who allegedly told Rivas no laws had been broken. The next morning she says the doors were locked and she was told she was fired for “insubordination.” Allen’s complaint lists eight causes of action — including race and sex harassment and discrimination, retaliation, failure to prevent discrimination and harassment, and wrongful termination — and seeks general, lost-earnings, and punitive damages for the emotional distress she alleges. Cookbook Market shared an internal memo from owners Jon Shook, Vinny Dotolo, and Helen Johannesen acknowledging the incident “did not reflect the values we hold,” saying management’s internal investigation found the supervisor “inappropriately escalated the situation,” the police should not have been called, Allen should not have been fired, and that Allen was offered her job back with back pay while Rivas was terminated; the allegations were first aired publicly after a now-deleted January 2024 TikTok by creator Ruby Solina prompted commenters to name the store." - Rebecca Roland
"Everyone has their version of a candy store. And if organic tomatoes, tinned fish, and biodynamic wines are your thing, that’s Cookbook. This white bungalow in Larchmont Village is the boutique grocery store’s third and largest location, and it’s riddled with pricey booby traps for millennial foodies. The best thing about this food shop, though (and the main reason we’d spend over $20 here) is the attached cafe where you can have a lovely al fresco lunch. The menu is curated by the Jon & Vinny folks, but apart from a few pasta dishes, it doesn’t scream Italian—in fact, it reads more like a fancier version of the sandwich-salad-soup combos you’d eat with your mom at a Nordstrom cafe. But we won’t downplay that the food here is very good, like the buttered cheese toastie filled with caramelized leeks and the beautiful treviso and apple salad that belongs on the cover of a Chez Panisse cookbook. You’ll probably feel like a walking LA cliché sipping turmeric tonics and $14 chicken broth in the sunshine, but Cookbook is as good a place as any to momentarily live that lifestyle." - Sylvio Martins
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