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Playa opens today on Beverly Boulevard

By Betty HallockDeputy Food Editor 
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Playa, chef John Sedlar’s latest foray into modern Mexican cooking, opens today in the former Grace restaurant space on Beverly Boulevard. The menu is a mix of mostly small and a few big plates, all to share. You’ll find more than a couple of Sedlar’s maize cakes -- extra-thick, fresh-masa tortillas made with various spices, seeds and flowers, topped with, for example: fresh burrata, salsa verde, sal de Colima, amaranth and mojito mint olive oil; or a 63-degree egg with black trumpet mushrooms, truffle cheese and pan-seared potato; or pork belly confit with chile-lime jicama, mango pickles and raita espuma.

Other dishes, which recall Sedlar’s downtown restaurant Rivera, include grilled octopus with palm hearts and oven-dried cherry tomatoes; fideos of linguini caseros with saffron, caviar and fresno chiles; and chile-rubbed pork tenderloin with salsa verde, pea tendrils and manzana. Prices are $7 to $26.

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Don’t skip dessert, such as the pastel cafe: mocha sponge with espresso creme, toffee honeycomb and Colombian chocolate ice cream. Meanwhile, cocktails -- currently emphasizing rum, tequila and cachaca -- are the creations of Rivera’s Julian Cox.

See more photos after the jump.

7360 Beverly Blvd., Los Angeles; (323) 933-5300.

-- Betty Hallock

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Betty Hallock

Betty Hallock is deputy Food editor at the Los Angeles Times. She has co-written four cookbooks, including “Bäco: Vivid Recipes from the Heart of Los Angeles,” “Amá: A Modern Tex-Mex Kitchen” and “Baking at République.” She started her journalism career at the Wall Street Journal and Scientific American in New York, worked on the L.A. Times’ Business desk, and was interim food editor at Los Angeles Magazine. Hallock also helped launch a food and nutrition vertical for wellness app RoundGlass. She’s a graduate of UCLA and New York University.

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