Eats: Louise at the Museum

Hunker Alert

[Transcribed from a crumpled sandwich wrapper thrown at the back of my head this morning]

"The amazing, delicious, alluring + irksome Louise is winterizing for a few months. That means no food for you until spring. Louise is thinking she might take a little trip to the little known island of Popennop in the Eastern Pacific and then loll about in Los Angeles for some inspiration. She will be taking her beloved dog Flip Flop with her. Come back after the thaw to visit Louise and Flip Flop and enjoy some great food on the river trail. Expect a surprise.
Signed,

[paw print]

Louise and Flip Flop

p.s. Thankas SO much for a wonderful first season. We never anticipated such a great success in such a short time. And those people in the Pow...phew... it would be hard to find any more fun.

Hungry Much?

Back sass may be the last thing you're looking for in a food experience, but this food-truck-with-attitude promises to make your visit worth the whinge. 

Louise_Logo_thumb.jpg"We're not happy 'til you're not happy." 

Visit our new food trailer next to the smokestack in the Powerhouse Plaza. Now considering orders from 11am to dusk, Wednesday to Sunday.  
  • Hot dogs with arugula, goat cheese, bacon, or chile
  • Super salads
  • Super sandwiches*
  • Icy cold lemonade with fresh mint
  • Thai tea
  • Frozen bananas dipped in pure European chocolate
Let's eat.
Tip: ask about the enchanted cookies. 
*a word from Chef Jill: 

Everyone knows there are five basic tastes right? Sweet, sour, bitter, and salty.

But did you know that the Japanese include one more taste? They call it umami, and it comes from ingredients that become glutamate. Glutamate is found in most living things, but when organic matter breaks down, the glutamate molecule breaks apart. This can happen on a stove when you cook meat, over time when you age a parmesan cheese, by fermentation as in soy sauce or under the sun as a tomato ripens. When glutamate becomes L-glutamate, that's when things get “delicious.” L-glutamate is that fifth taste—umami. Our umami is made from olives, oven roasted tomatoes, lemon zest, parmesan cheese, and a few other glutamat-ey things. Taste for it in our Umami Mi, a Mi being a Vietnamese sandwich, with fresh organic sliced chicken, delightful locally harvested greens, and goat cheese. And for traditionalists, we have a Banh Mi sandwich with wasabi mayonaise, Asian slaw, chicken or tofu, and fresh cilantro.