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Tasca
8108 W 3rd St
Los Angeles, CA 90048
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Main Menu
Salads
Burrata Cheese
$13.00
heirloom tomatoes, serrano ham, watercress, basalmic reduction
Beets Carpaccio
$12.00
red & golden beets, watercress, roquefort cheese, walnut vinaigrette
Baby Artichoke Hearts
$12.00
heirloom tomatoes, arugula, lemon vinaigrette
Arugula
$11.00
shaves parmesan, belgium endives, lemon-garlic vinaigrette
Large Plates
Steak Frites
$23.00
flatiron steak, maitre d'hotel butter, frites
Roasted Duck Confit
$22.00
fingerling potatoes, smoked bacon, mushrooms
Rack Of Lamb
$24.00
goat cheese tart, sauteed greens, mint demi sauce
Risotto Bianco
$17.00
melted leeks & parmigiano reggiano
House Made Fettuccine
$19.00
with champignon mushrooms & white truffle oil
-and shaved black truffles add $6.00
Branzino En Papillote
$17.00
artichokes, spinach, mushrooms, cherry tomatoes
Paella Valenciana
$42.00
available tuesday & wednesday only for two people
Small Plates
Mediterranean Olives & Nuts
$8.00Truffled Potato Chips
$6.00
house made potatoes chips, white truffle oil
Artisan Cheese Plate
$14.00
fig & quince paste, fruits, nuts
Charcuterie Plate
$15.00
cured meats, piquillo tapenade, kalamata olives
Mousse De Higado De Pollo
$8.00
chicken liver mousse, truffle oil
Jamon Serrano-wrapped Dates
$8.00
goat cheese filling, balsamic reduction
Tortilla Espanola
$10.00
with chorizo bilbao & saffron aioli
Arancini
$10.00
wild mushroom risotto fritters, truffled sauce
Steak & Egg
$14.00
traditional steak tartare, fried quail egg & frites
Tuna Tartare
$14.00
black truffle & potato chips
Ceviche
$13.00
citrus marinated seafood, avocado, tomato
Boquerones
$10.00
white anchovies, tomato, boiled egg & aioli on crostini
Gambas Al Ajillo
$13.00
sauteed shrimp in garlic sauce
Moules Frites
$14.00
steamed mussels served in saffron broth, frites
Braised Short Rib
$13.00
with butternut squash agnolotti, brown butter & sage sauce
Calamares Fritos
$12.00
fried calamari, garlic aioli
Grilled Lamb Porterhouse
$16.00
roasted kaboocha squash, port wine sauce
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General Info
Hours
Monday:
4:00pm - 10:30pm
Tuesday:
4:00pm - 10:30pm
Wednesday:
4:00pm - 10:30pm
Thursday:
4:00pm - 10:30pm
Friday:
4:00pm - 11:30pm
Saturday:
4:00pm - 11:30pm
Sunday:
Closed
About Us
Walk in the door and you feel welcomed. It seems like such a simple thing, but few restaurants get it right. I'm not talking about a phalanx of junior managers slipping you an insincere smile as they size you up and then try to stick you with the worst table in the room. Everyone who works at Tasca has an instinctive sense of how to be warm and hospitable. The space works too, with no big-name designer in sight and a limited budget. You can intuit it in the way people seated along the bar lean into each other and interact with the bartender or the host. Everyone at table is digging into their food with abandon, licking the mussel juices from their fingers, offering a bite of crostini to someone at the next table, enjoying the conversation at their own table. There is no scene, no whispered nudges or heads turning to get a glimpse of celebrity or notoriety. Tasca is the antithesis of trendy.
The food is fairly traditional too. A brown paper menu printed in a retro typeface introduces small plates, salads and soups on the front page, large plates, sides and desserts on the reverse. Of course, there's a little dish of oil-slicked olives and toasted nuts. And the requisite charcuterie plate. But here, instead of an Italian assortment, the cured meats are Spanish-inflected, most from a local producer: jamon serrano (Spain's answer to prosciutto) and a couple of different pimiento-streaked chorizo along with a dusky piquillo pepper tapenade and some kalamata olives.