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3219 Glendale Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90039

323-666-7133

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Critics'
Pick
Best After-Dinner Goodwill
Award Winner 2010

Cuisine(s): French

Hours: Sun,Sat 10am-3pm, Sun 5pm-10pm, Tue-Wed 5:30pm-10pm, Thu-Sat 5:30pm-10:30pm

Price: $$

Payment Types: All Major Credit Cards, MasterCard, Visa, American Express
Attire: Per the restaurant's Web site: "Wear whatever makes you hungry."

Features: Takeout

Serving: Breakfast, Brunch, Dinner

Alcohol: Beer/Wine
Reservations: Not Accepted

Parking: Street

Description

In Bordelaise dialect, a canele is a dense, fluted cylinder of pudding edged with crisp beeswax. In Atwater Village, Canele can feel a lot like an ongoing dinner party that just happens to tolerate strangers at its tables, with oddly minimalist decor, menus illegibly scrawled onto chalkboards, and friendly but puzzled waitresses who aren't quite sure why you've stumbled into their domain. The chef/owner is Corina Weibel, a Nancy Silverton protegee who also cooked for a while at Lucques, and she works the farmers-market-driven urban rustic side of new Los Angeles cooking: the Provencal onion tart pissaladiere and an austere green salad with creme fraiche; rare roast lamb with Israeli couscous and beef bourguignon with noodles; steak with potatoes Anna; and an honest flan. This is cooking worthy of the good china.

2010 | Best After-Dinner Goodwill

On your way out of Corina Weibel's Atwater Village restaurant, Canel�, after a dinner of lamb stew and pissaladi�re, maybe, you will be given a little gift, in the tradition of mignardise: a smaller-than-usual canel�, one of the pretty bordelaise cakes from which the restaurant takes its name. Weibel will be the first to admit that her canel�s are not a perfect example of the form: They are not made in the traditional method, copper tins painted with beeswax, and they are certainly not on par with Su... More »

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By Tien Nguyen | Thu, January 26, 2012

Most days, it's just a cup of coffee. Other days, cereal and milk. And at Pee-wee Herman's playhouse, it's pancakes, eggs, bacon and Mr. T's cereal via a Rube Goldberg breakfast machine that involves whirling fans, a life-size model of Abraham Lin... More »
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By Tien Nguyen | Tue, January 17, 2012

Most days, it's just a cup of coffee. Other days, cereal and milk. And at Pee-Wee Herman's playhouse, it's pancakes, eggs, bacon, and Mr. T's cereal via a nifty Rube Goldberg breakfast machine that ... More »
Eat This Now: Lemon Pancake at Canele

By Elina Shatkin | Tue, April 12, 2011

Things are not always as they seem at Canele. Order coffee cake and you get a slice of pound cake with a spoonful of cream and a shot of espresso. Scan the brunch menu and you'll likely miss the bes... More »
Best Mignardise, or After-Dinner Goodwill: Canele's Caneles

By Amy Scattergood | Wed, September 29, 2010

On your way out of Corina Weibel's Atwater Village restaurant, Canele, after a dinner of lamb stew and pissaladiere, maybe, you will be given a little gift, in the tradition of mignardise: a smaller... More »
First Bite: Bon Appetit

By Jonathan Gold | Thu, October 05, 2006

Dinner at Canele, a new Southern French restaurant in the old Osteria Nonni space in Atwater, can feel a lot like crashing a dinner party, with oddly minimalist décor, people you probably know and friendly but puzzled waitresses who aren’t quite s... More »

Dinner

Beginning

$7.00

Chilled Beet Soup
with horseradish creme fraiche

$7.00

Farmer's Market Salad
with shallots and creme fraiche vinaigrette

$8.00

Pissaladiere
with a salad of fresh market herbs

$8.00

Dandelion Salad
with capers, parsley, garlic, croutons, and sherry vinaigrette

$11.00

Summer Bean Salad
with sherried onions and arugula

$12.00

Burrata
with roasted broccoli and cauliflower, radicchio, and currants

$10.00

Coop's Omelet
with a salad of fresh market herbs

$10.00

Brandade
with tomato confit and toast

$14.00

Jamon Serrano
with garrotxa cheese, dates, almonds, and toast.

$13.00

Pancetta Pasta
pancetta pasta spaghetti with pancetta, pistachio, parmesan and parsley

Middle

$21.00

Roast Chicken
with cachapa, butter carrots, and arugula

$23.00

Seared Market Fish
wrapped in fig leaf, with cous cous, pine nuts, green olive and fig relish

$25.00

Bistro Steak
with sauce bordelaise, pommes anna, and creamed spinach

$30.00

Oven-roasted Veal Chop With Fava Bean And Artichoke Hash, Olives, And Salsa Verde
with fava bean and artichoke hash, olives, and salsa verde

$22.00

Pork Tenderloin
with young onion, kumquats, and baby turnips

$22.00

Boeuf Bourguignon
with buttered noodles

$23.00

Salt-roasted Branzino
with parsley, celery salad, and caperberries

$22.00

Duck Confit
with roasted apples, sweet potato ribbons, arugula, and almonds.

$21.00

Vegetarian Plate
chickpea pancake with cavolo nero, tomato confit, garbanzos, and feta

Sides

$7.00

Pommes Anna

$7.00

Sauteed Greens

$7.00

Israeli Couscous

End

$8.00

Buena Chica Cheesecake

$8.00

Flourless Chocolate Cake
with vanilla ice cream

$8.00

Profiteroles
with chocolate sauce

$8.00

Seasonal Sweet

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Canele

3219 Glendale Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90039

323-666-7133

Description

2010 | Best After-Dinner Goodwill

By Tien Nguyen | Thu, January 26, 2012

By Tien Nguyen | Tue, January 17, 2012

By Elina Shatkin | Tue, April 12, 2011

By Amy Scattergood | Wed, September 29, 2010

By Jonathan Gold | Thu, October 05, 2006