Farm Stand Restaurant: Urban Country Food in El Segundo
El Segundo has had a tough time being recognized as anything other than That Place Next To The Refinery, even as the downtown area has developed an interesting shopping and dining scene. The distinctive 1920’s architecture, particularly the lovely high school, evokes a different era, and the descendants of the Texans and Oklahomans who founded the town have long supported businesses that evoked a Midwestern and rural atmosphere. You might expect a new restaurant called Farm Stand to have rustic décor and serve home-style food, and you’d be half right. Though the decoration is high style, the food is prepared according to family recipes but that family’s heritage includes Persian, Turkish, and French grandparents. The room itself is decorated with stylish modern art, divorced from any tradition except the Californian idea of making restaurants like gallery spaces. The food is remarkably different from any farm stand I’ve ever seen, though perhaps I just missed the ones selling grilled eggplant with goat cheese or stuffed mushrooms in pecan coriander sauce. Having tried those mushrooms, I’d happily eat them at a roadside stand or anywhere else; the stuffing of cheese, herbs, and…
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