Nomad settles in
Nomad Eatery Chef-Owner Scott Cooper with General Manager Elysia Lemberis. Photo by Richard Foss I’m occasionally literal-minded, so my first thought when I heard about a South Bay establishment called Nomad Eatery was that it was a food truck. That would be the most nomadic style of dining possible in an urban landscape, though it’s not one of my favorites because they usually lack comfortable seating and a place to wash up after dining. This presumably doesn’t concern genuine nomads, who are used to spartan circumstances, but I’m a fan of creature comforts. In reality Nomad Eatery is a reimagined version of the previous restaurant in this space on Rosecrans, Jackson’s Food and Drink. Jackson’s had a menu that was interesting but lacked focus, a global mix that included sashimi, mac and cheese, steaks, braised short ribs, and other trendy items. Anybody could find something to eat there, but it was more an expression of contemporary ideas than a place with a personal stamp. Chef-owner Scott Cooper had some time to think about what would draw diners to this space during the pandemic, and even before the neighboring Arclight Cinema closed, he had detertmined that a new menu and…
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