🧢 Celebrate Father’s Day this Sunday at the Current Backyard Grill Off at Smorgasburg LA, where vendors will serve up special dishes made on Current Backyard electric grills, griddles, and pizza ovens. Enjoy a friendly grill-off competition judged by our panel of Smorg Dads to crown the tastiest plate, plus giveaways throughout the day. Check out these amazing vendor specials from:
Bernie’s Smoked Peach and Maple Granita with Grilled Stone Fruit, Candied Pecans, and Charcoal Meringue.
Breakfast Dreams Arayes. Grilled Pita stuffed with spiced beef, pork sausage and fresh herbs. Served with a maple spiked tahini sauce and spicy harissa. A dish originating from the Levant.
Cena Vegan Mexican Pizza 100% Plant Based. House made seasoned ground plant based protein, and refried beans layered between two crispy, flour tortilla shells. Topped with chopped tomatoes, house made nacho cheese, signature guacamole scoops & jalapenos.
Saulitos Smoked Tomahawk. Smoked to tenderness and reverse seared to form a nice crispy, smokey, bark!
Mama Musubi Japanese -Style Smoked Pork Belly with Yaki Onigiri. Grilled tare-glazed rice ball served with thick-cut heritage pork belly smoked by our friends at Black Sugar BBQ, finished with pickles and a dash of shichimi.
Lobsterdamus Smokey Jolly Grilled Oysters. Half-Dozen Baja Laguna Bay Oysters (via The Jolly Oyster) grilled on the half shell with garlic thyme Lobsterdamus Butter and melted Romano cheese and grilled crostini.
Full Send Reverse Seared Hanger Steaks. Sous vide in a buttery garlic herb blend and reverse seared on the grill to lock in flavors Topped with chimichurri.
Shlap Muan Lemongrass Tumeric grilled chicken with Cambodian Garlic Noodle. Served with a bright and vibrant lemongrass turmeric yogurt sauce.Paired with Cambodian Style garlic noodles, cooked with garlic done 3 ways.
Yatai Neighborhood Nikumaki Onigiri. Famous street food from Kyushu Prefecture in Japan. Grilled rice ball wrap with Kurobuta Pork Belly on a stick, with our own sweet soy sauce and topped with sesame, green onion, and yuzu kosho (citrus pepper).
And this week's Smorgasburger pop up-- Holy Basil serving a Double australian Wagyu mixed ground pork patties , fermented Habaneros cucumber pickled, black soy sauce Aioli, Basil and fry basil.
🎂 This Sunday is our 9th Smorgiversary, and we’ll be celebrating this wonderful community of diverse small businesses the only way we know how… by eating as much as our stomachs can handle with the people that make Los Angeles so great.
🎶 Catch live sets from Long Beach DJs Letchera (Las Chicas Tristes) and Nick at Nite (Frankie and the Witch Fingers) spinning from the Miche Mobil.
⚽️ And bonus for those soccer loving dads out there: We'll have Inter Milan fan experience ahead of the Club World Cup match with freebies and team merch, and more surprises!
🤗 As always, this is in addition to our resident lineup of food and shopping vendors.
❣️ Come stand strong with the community and bond over great food, music, and culture in LA.
đź“ŤSmorgasburg LA
Sundays 10am-4pm at ROW DTLA
Free Entry, Tons of Food & Shopping,
Craft Beer & Michelada Bar, DJs
(777 Alameda, Free Parking first 2hrs)