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Restaurant Closings

TiGeorges' Chicken Closing the End of January

By Amy Scattergood Thu., Jan. 3 2013 at 12:25 PM

Categories: Haitian cuisine, Restaurant Closings

A. Scattergood

TiGeorges' Island Combo

After weathering enough misfortunes to make Job's afternoon look like a walk in the park (the 2010 Haitian earthquake, his own restaurant fire), George Laguerre is closing his downtown Haitian restaurant. TiGeorges' Chicken will be open through this month, but will close its doors on Jan. 31.

As Downtown News reported earlier today, business has been dwindling and Laguerre finally decided that it didn't make economic sense to continue. "I cannot run two houses," Laguerre told us by phone this morning.

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100 Favorite Dishes

37: The Island Combo at TiGeorges' Chicken

By Amy Scattergood Tue., Oct. 2 2012 at 11:38 AM

Categories: 100 Favorite Dishes, Chicken, Haitian cuisine

A. Scattergood

TiGeorges' Chicken's Island combo

Leading up to this year's Best of L.A. issue (due out Oct. 4) -- and probably beyond, at this rate -- we'll be counting down, in no particular order, 100 of our favorite dishes.

37: The Island Combo at TiGeorges' Chicken.

One imagines George Laguerre, who opened his Haitian restaurant TiGeorges' Chicken some fifteen years ago, as something of an Echo Park Job. First there was the devastating January 2010 earthquake in his native Haiti, which destroyed the homes and businesses of many of his friends and family. Then, only a month later, an electrical fire destroyed the roof of his restaurant, as if catastrophe had simply changed direction. It took almost a year for Laguerre to reopen. But reopen he did, the restaurant recalibrated and rebuilt so that it seems, on the surface, as if nothing much has happened. It has, of course. Haiti still remains in partial ruins. And catastrophe leaves patterns and fissures, whether you can see them or not.

But all that is forgotten, at least for dinner, when you sit down to a plate of TiGeorges' chicken, the focal point of the menu and of the restaurant itself, the tables of which are gathered around an enormous custom-made medieval-looking spit near the restaurant's front window. (An apocalypse would probably not destroy that thing, certainly not a little ceiling fire.)