A Northwest Passage [restaurant review]
Outpost 406 owner Cory Nauman with fries and a Dagwood chicken sandwich. Photo I am a big fan of American regional cuisines, and have been enthusiastic whenever a new outpost of our culinary heritage surfaced. Those featuring the American South have often been successful, while most offering food of the Midwest and Northeast have fizzled. The local population of expats was too small, and locals who delight in foods of the Orient and South America were curiously slow to embrace items from closer to home. I didn’t mention restaurants featuring food from the Pacific Northwest because until recently it was an untried experiment. You might expect to find a Seattle or Portland themed restaurant somewhere around here, but instead the one that opened earlier this year celebrates dining in Montana. That’s not a misprint. Montana has a population that numbers about a quarter of the city of Los Angeles, and now has a culinary embassy at the Hermosa Beach cafe called Outpost 406. (In case you’re wondering about the name, 406 is the prefix for every phone number in the state.) The space that used to be Big Mike’s and the Hermosa Pub has been redecorated to look rustic, but they kept a few…
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