37 Postcards
Step into Destroyer, Jordan Kahn's futuristic Culver City café that serves up inventive Scandinavian breakfast and lunch artfully disguised as comfort food.
"Destroyer is selling beignets by the half-dozen, which come filled with vanilla creme, and served with a side of strawberry caramel and crème fraîche for dipping. They’re $40 per box, and you can place an order here." - kat hong
"Destroyer is selling beignets by the half-dozen, which come filled with vanilla creme, and served with a side of strawberry caramel and crème fraîche for dipping. They’re $40 per box, and you can place an order here." - kat hong
"Located in a part of Culver filled with very cool people who work in very creative offices, Destroyer is a daytime cafe unlike any other. We’re pretty sure the coffee machine was brought here from the future (it’s built into the counter), and it’s entirely possible the food was, too. Seemingly simple dishes like raw oatmeal and almond milk or chicken schnitzel into works of abstract sci-fi art. The whole place is straight-up weird, and also oddly zen, but in the kind of way that has us planning a return trip as you read this." - brant cox, sylvio martins, nikko duren, garrett snyder
"Once heralded as the most “Instagrammable restaurant in the known universe,” Destroyer, opened by chef Jordan Kahn in 2016, continues to lure in diners who want to try its somewhat more cerebral takes on all-day fare, like persimmon French toast with toasted birch leaf syrup, smoked fish with savory onion granola, and sweet corn porridge with a poached egg and delicately crisped chicken skin. A sandwich and salad here are not just a sandwich and salad, so keep your phones poised as the more unexpected elements of a dish reveal themselves. A cup of coffee and a pastry to go are fine moves, too." - Matthew Kang, Eater Staff
"Destroyer is a futuristic cafe in Culver City serving fussy sounding dishes that actually aren’t that fussy. Think raw oatmeal soaked in almond-date milk, steak tartare topped with smoked egg cream, and sweet potato waffle with gruyere emulsion. Meals go down on a sunny patio on a side street filled with tech start-ups and other offices that look like they were built for the Blade Runner reboot. " - brant cox
