Out of the Jar: 10 Restaurants To Hit When You Need Your Nutella Fix
Happy World Nutella Day. Nutella is an addiction more clandestine than the addiction to ordinary chocolate, since people get so involved in its sourcing that it's often smuggled back from foreign countries, and it's just enough like junk food to be slightly embarrassing, particularly if you're not Italian. True devotees of the chocolate-hazelnut spread have been known to hide their jars of Nutella under sinks, in clothes hampers, in the empty wells of the car trunk where that spare tire should probably be. Troubling? Well, at least we're not doing that with the Glenlivit. But scan the menus of hip bakeries, food trucks, neighborhood eateries and even a certain 2 Michelin star L.A. restaurant, and you will find that fans of Nutella are everywhere. Turn the page for our Top 10 places to score your Nutella fix. You can always eat it out of the jar.
A. Scattergood Nutella panino at Little Dom's
Karin Schoen-Wasler The Grilled Cheese Truck's Nutella-banana sandwich
10. The Grilled Cheese Truck: This mobile food eatery serves its Nutella on brioche, with roasted banana puree and marshmallow. If you ask, they'll add peanut butter too.
Follow them on Twitter @grlldcheesetruk.
9. Terroni: After a dinner of one too many pizza slices, you may nonetheless need to opt for some dessert here, particularly the Nutella fritters stuffed with Nutella gelato. If that's too much for you (coward), then have a Nutella biscotti with your demitasse of espresso. Lucky you, there's a big jar of them permanently installed at the end of the marble bar.
Terroni: 7605 Beverly Blvd., Los Angeles; (323) 954-0300.
A. Scattergood Acadie's Nutella crepe
8. Acadie: The crepes at Acadie, the Santa Monica creperie owned by Frenchman Thierry Boisson, are made for you while you wait, swirled across the pan by a rozelle, a jar of Nutella (which the shop prominently displays and sells) waiting as well. Acadie's Paris crepe is a sweet whole wheat crepe spread with Nutella and dusted with powdered sugar. You can also order it with whipped creme and slices of bananas.
Acadie: 213 Arizona Ave., Santa Monica; (310) 395-1120.
7. La Bottega Marino: You'd expect to find Nutella for sale at these Italian markets and cafes, of which there are now three, but you can get far more than a jar to take home with your panini and pizzas and oxtail crostini. Sal Marino says they have a "rotating Nutella menu," which can feature Nutella cookies, either plain or with pistachios, Nutella "Oreo" cookies, and a Nutella layer cake with hazelnuts. Nutella is for sale at all three Bottegas, in both the 13 oz. and the 26 oz. jars.
La Bottega Marino: check the website for hours and addresses for the three locations.
A. Scattergood Nutella gelato at Reservoir
6. Reservoir: After you've eaten all the tiny tacos on jicama slices you can manage, you might try some of chef-owner Gloria Felix's Nutella gelato. She uses Nutella out of a jar, as she likes the texture, putting large quantities of the stuff into a vanilla ice cream base before spinning it in her gelato maker. Order the trio of three scoops, topped with a chocolate chip cookie.
A. Scattergood Nutella donut at Nickel DIner
5. Nickel Diner: Okay, so you probably won't often order any donut but the maple-bacon here, but sometimes you must try, and when you do, you should order the Nutella donut, a brioche donut covered with dark chocolate and crushed hazelnut praline. It's one of the five donuts (in addition to the maple-bacon and Nutella, they have red velvet, strawberry and a Clockwork Orange, which is good to know for Anthony Burgess Day) on the daily menu; on the weekend there is a Samoa donut, that sounds almost as dangerous as the maple-bacon. Speaking of dangerous, when we ordered our last Nutella donut, owner Monica May handed it over, paused, and said, "So, you know about the Italian Nutella sex cults?" Sadly, no.
Nickel Diner: 524 South Main Street, Los Angeles; (213) 623-8301.
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