Hipsteropolis Rising: Taste of the Eastside Food Festival

By Ben Mesirow Thu., Apr. 28 2011 at 10:00 AM

Anne Fishbein

An egg sandwich from Auntie Em's

Even though Hipsteropolis has completely arrived as a desirable part of town (at least if celebrity residents and real estate prices are any indication), it hasn't yet lost that little-brother, underdog feeling. Like UCLA football (not arrived) and USC academics (arrived, though someone apparently forgot to tell the students), it probably never will. Would the Westside, for example, gather together and host a food festival to show off just how diverse and accomplished their restaurants are? Probably not, but that's just what a group of influential Eastside organizations has done.

On Sunday, May 15th from 1-5 p.m. at Barnsdall Art Park in Los Feliz, the Taste of the Eastside food festival will showcase almost 30 restaurants from the east and northeast L.A. neighborhoods of Silver Lake, Echo Park, Atwater, Eagle Rock, Los Feliz, Highland Park, and Downtown. Apparently nobody wanted to invite Boyle Heights, Lincoln Heights, or City Terrace to the party. Or maybe restaurants over there just don't count as East L.A. anymore.

Anne Fishbein

The glorious huarache

The list of restaurants that apparently do count as Eastside spots includes some standouts, though. Gold Standard veteran El Huarache Azteca will be there, as will Little Dom's, Cliff's Edge, Auntie Em's, and Silver Lake Wine, among others. Your $25 entry fee gets you 15 tickets to try the various taste-size food items over the course of the four hour event. For an extra $40 (making it $65 total) you can upgrade to the VIP package, which gives you 15 additional tickets and grants you early entry to the festival, as well as access to a special "Pharmacie Cocktail Tasting" with Heirloom LA's Talmadge Lowe.

The price may seem a little steep, but the money is going to a good cause. All of the proceeds will get divided amongst the non-profit organizations Children's Hospital LA, SEE-LA, the Barnsdall Art Park Foundation, and Rose Scharlin Cooperative nursery school. A festival of good food for a good cause? We hope the Eastside never grows up.

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Barnsdall Art Park

4800 Hollywood Blvd., Los Angeles, CA

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Lagirl7

I think this looks like a great event. Granted, some of the Eastside areas are not necessarily represented this year, but why would you trash talk a food festival that's still celebrating areas that people are from and proud of? It's the first year for this, so why not give it a chance and watch as it grows each year before instantly posting negative comments? It's still insulting to the people who were born and raised in the areas that do happen to have restaurants participating ... It's so sad to see such disrespect among people who are all part of the LA community.

Taste of the Eastside

The organizers invited many restaurants from many areas (including Boyle Heights, East Los Angeles, etc...) Unfortunately, many restaurants that were invited could not participate in this first year event.

Martin1262001

How dare you call this an Eastside event. You are not the Eastside, the Eastside of LA is East LA, Boyle Heights, El Sereno, Lincoln Heights, City Terrace, etc. etc. etc. you guys are just a bunch of posers