Restaurants in Cudahy

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Food Fair features a robust menu packed with hearty bites. Starters include a homemade mascarpone gnocchi ($8) and crispy calamari with a lemony chive yogurt dipping sauce ($9). The fancied and fresh take on comfort food includes classics such as grilled cheese with goat cheese and onion jam on whole-grain kalamata bread ($8), and a grilled veggie sandwich with mixed herb aioli ($11). Entrees include a daily risotto ($13), classic pot roast with roasted carrots and parsnips ($17), and a grilled half-chicken with grilled vegetables ($16).

Cayenne Cafe’s executive chef and co-owner, Noura Elnasser, crafts the restaurant’s tasty Mediterranean-American cuisine, and she does it with a little help from mom. Not only did Elnasser’s mother teach her much of her cooking methods, but her mother also bakes the desserts and cakes that perfectly wrap up Cayenne’s brunches, lunches, and dinners.

In its review of Cayenne Cafe, the Los Angeles Times said, “[L]ike a quirky friend who’s got a different take on things, Cayenne’s full of pleasant surprises.” Strings of glass globes dangle from the ceiling, and simple vases showcase single green stems. Inside or under the patio’s sprawling white parasols, patrons dine on spanakopita, salmon, and kebabs. The restaurant also whips up Angus-beef burgers, but often with a Mediterranean twist—the Zorba burger comes topped with feta cheese, cucumbers, and yogurt sauce in a pita.

Food + Lab is run by mad scientists Esther and Nino Linsmayer, a mother-and-son team with a simple strategy for galactic domination: using only the freshest possible nitrate-free, hormone-free, organic ingredients. Food + Lab's lunch menu runs the gamut from an organic curried-chicken sandwich ($8) to a buffalo-mozzarella organic salad bedazzled with cherry tomato, zucchini, pesto, tapenade, and sunflower seeds ($13), with stops in between at organic oases and healthy havens in the guises of bowls of soup ($5.50) and cheese platters with fruits, nuts, and bread baskets ($15).

Fresh Cutt was founded by two sisters who wanted to give customers speedy savories with a healthful twist. Choose from a plate, bowl, salad, or flatbread sandwich and add your meat. Marinated overnight, slow roasted on a spin grill, and carved to order with a sharpened baseball bat, Fresh Cutt offers everything from lemon chicken breast ($7.95) to blackened strips steak ($8.75) to fresh, vegetarian avocado salad ($7.95). Deck out dishes with up to five spreads, sauces, garden selections, cheeses, or hot add-ins (grilled veggies, beans, rice pilaf). For those overwhelmed by the ordering ordeal, pre-determined meal plans from French dip ($8.50) to a kicky Cajun bowl ($6.95) are also available.