#Gjusta Grocer

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Gjusta Grocer, 105 Windward Ave, Venice, CA 90291

Love Gjusta but not the wait? Gjusta Grocer is where you should be going. They may not have the breadth of offerings as Gjusta but they have Gjusta baked goods, bread, salads, sandwiches, coffee/espresso bar, etc. And it’s not crowded. Plus, they don’t add the service fee that Gjusta does. You can also find interesting groceries too.

Gjusta Grocer has produce (looks like farmer’s market produce), eggs, beer, wine, pantry items (pasta, sauces, spices, tea, flour), snacks (chips, crackers, cookies), dairy, ice cream (Rori’s, Uli’s Gelato), cheese, and Gjusta items (dips, spreads, yogurt, olive oil, granola, etc.).  

Gjusta pistachio cookie ($3): how a cookie should be – chewy, moist, with crispy edges. Lots of chopped pistachios and maybe some citrus zest. Loved it.

Gjusta sheep’s milk yogurt with plum compote ($6): They make their own yogurt! Loved the tang. It seemed simple, natural, and not as sweet or processed.

Speculoos cookies ($12): not made by Gjusta, very cute stamped cookies. I think I’ve had them before.

I imagine that parking is hard to find. I didn’t see any Gjusta specific parking. There are a few tables outside if you want to dine there. Warning: the area is touristy with lots of homeless. It’s by the boardwalk.

5 out of 5 stars

By Lolia S.

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Checking out the new Gjusta Grocer

So I’m back in LA and was finally able to visit Venice Beach's new Gjusta Grocer. Being a lover of specialty markets and curated and unique pantry items, this was something I was super excited about since seeing their opening announcement sometime last month. 

If the name Gjusta rings a bell, it’s because the new grocer is the latest  storefront by the Gjelina Group which many of you may know are the minds behind Gjelina (and Gjelina Take Away), Valle, Gjusta, and Gjusta Goods in Venice. I’ve never had a bad meal at any of the group’s establishments — I come to Gjusta Bakery knowing that I’ll consistently have a good meal at any time of the day.  If I’m on Abbot Kinney craving a pizza, I know I can bet on a good pie at Gjelina takeout.  With that said, I had nothing by high hopes for the new market and I’m happy to say that I was not disappointed.

Straight off the bat, if you know me, you know I love conservas (see some of my gift recommendations here), so I was excited to see a number of quality tins of fish on the first aisle by the entrance.  I’m talking boxes of Jose Groumet, Olasagasti, Fangst Brisling, and Scout amongst others.  I expected to see some other popular canned fish-makers like Fishwife or Porthos which I did see before at Gjusta Bakery, but maybe in the future?

I also absolutely loved their cold case of condiments, dips, spreads, and butters.  I’d love to have their mustardo on a nice cheese board, or any of their pickled stuff like pickled shishitos, onions, or peppers in my fridge for snacking.  Or, maybe for making Gjusta Bakery’s smoked fish and egg breakfast plate at home — just get some smoked fish, labneh, capers, tomatoes, and bread, and voila. And of course, despite being a splurge at $15, I left the grocer dreaming of anchovy butter after seeing them stacked in the dairy section.

Gjusta also sells their own vinegars, marinated oils, and salts, all packed into beautiful clear bottles and jars with minimal labeling. I would imagine their  pomegranate vinegar would be great in salad dressings, drinks, or even as a meat marinade.  And then there are the salts — herbed salt, rosemary salt, chili salt, etc.

I didn’t pay too much attention to their produce aside from their satsumas and their small Japanese sweet potatoes, but Gjelina Group has made purchasing directly from local farmers part of their business.

Gjusta Bakery on Sunset makes amazing croissants, sandwiches, and coffee, so it makes sense they sell a few in the back for a quick grab and go if in the boardwalk area.  

As for the design of the store, I did not expect anything less than what Gjelina Group’s other stores give — rustic and quant as if stepping into a European-style market with their produce baskets and flower arrangements in the front, but still somehow giving off a very cool, very California coastal vibe.

I knew that the grocer would be taking over Windward Farms, which unfortunately had to close due to a 120% rent increase, but I did wish Gjusta Grocer was closer to its other establishments near Abbot Kinney.  Nevertheless, I didn’t make too may rounds before finding parking and loved my visit.

Please enjoy these iPhone photos and visit Gjusta Grocer at 105 Windward Avenue in Venice, California.

Beautiful flower display at the entrance for a pretty rustic feel.

If only my fridge could look like this.

The stacked anchovy butter I was talking about!

And the tinned fish boxes I was also talking about — big fan of the art on Jose Gourmet packaging.

Tiny Japanese sweet potatoes at what I think was $4 per lb?

More anchovies found in the cold case!

A nice selection of sandwiches.  

Pretty vinegars made and bottled by Gjusta.

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Now Might Be the Time to Buy That Le Creuset Dutch Oven

And other good purchases for right now, from the ‘Add to Cart’ newsletter

This post originally appeared on April 14, 2020, in Add to Cart — the weekly newsletter for people who love shopping (almost) as much as they love eating. Subscribe now.

I’ve always been a sucker for house tours. I’ll watch Vogue’s 73 Questions videos with the sound off, just to peep the houses; I love a good Curbed House Calls column; and I regularly fall down Apartment Therapy clickholes looking at other people’s apartments.

While the slick, produced tours can be ultra satisfying (or devastating — watch Liv Tyler’s Architectural Digest house tour and weep), recently I’ve found myself comforted by the mundane. Instagram right now offers endless peeks into kitchens famous — Gwyneth Paltrow is posting unedited videos of her and her kids’ dinner prep, Eric Ripert is prolifically churning out home cooking tutorials — and non-famous alike, as seemingly everyone I’ve ever met is now streaming directly from their homes and into mine.

Needless to say, peeping the kitchen tools, artwork on the walls, perky plants, and other delightful home touches (I’ve spied some excellent stocked bar carts through Zoom) provides a much-needed shopping distraction right now.

Things to buy

East Fork’s Monochrome 3-Piece Dinner Set

H/t to Khushbu Shah for reminding us how crucial serrated knives are. I love my powerful little Wusthof serrated paring knife, while Eater EIC Amanda Kludt is a fan of Food52’s 9-inch serrated knife.

Le Creuset has been having major sales, so you can get a 4.5-quart Le Creuset Dutch oven right now for $268 (and other pieces for much cheaper, if you’re not looking to spend that much).

I’m getting envious of everyone’s speckled dishes (mugs at the edge of the photo frame, plates under baking attempts), which I’m convinced 99 percent of the time are East Fork’s signature dinner plates in “soapstone” (sort of a grayish pale blue). This Etsy set offers a similar vibe.

Any sad home desk situation can be helped (even if just a little? Maybe??) with a glass water carafe. I’ve always liked the cork-topped ones, like this glass pitcher from CB2 or an even cheaper one from Target.

Things to know, merch-that-gives-back edition

Prominent PR agency Care of Chan has launched a shopping initiative called Save Restaurants, curating an online shop with merch (some you may already recognize) from restaurants such as Contra, Chez Ma Tante, Frenchette, Gjusta, Sqirl, Tacos 1986, and Veselka. Check out this Roberta’s sweatshirt.

Merch 4 Relief is partnering with restaurants to create and sell new merch, with 95 percent of the profits going directly to the restaurant and 5 percent to a restaurant-worker relief fund. Restaurants include Eem in Portland, Oregon; Canlis in Seattle; and Toro in Boston. Seeing as I’m Philly born and bred, I’m eyeing this Palizzi Social Club tee.

This new Court Street Grocers T-shirt comes courtesy of Merch Aid, which is creating merch by pairing artists with small businesses — restaurants, markets — to design original items.

Bragard, maker of classic, simple aprons, is working with the Polonsky & Friends agency to sell a new version of its iconic Travail apron, with 100 percent of profits going to the Restaurant Employee Relief Fund.

John Donohue, an artist creating framed NYC restaurant prints, is also using his work to contribute, donating 50 percent of all print sales to the Restaurant Workers’ Community Foundation’s relief fund.

For more intel on local merch in specific U.S. cities, check out these lists.

Vox Media has affiliate partnerships. These do not influence editorial content, though Vox Media may earn commissions for products purchased via affiliate links. For more information, see our ethics policy.

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And other good purchases for right now, from the ‘Add to Cart’ newsletter

This post originally appeared on April 14, 2020, in Add to Cart — the weekly newsletter for people who love shopping (almost) as much as they love eating. Subscribe now.

I’ve always been a sucker for house tours. I’ll watch Vogue’s 73 Questions videos with the sound off, just to peep the houses; I love a good Curbed House Calls column; and I regularly fall down Apartment Therapy clickholes looking at other people’s apartments.

While the slick, produced tours can be ultra satisfying (or devastating — watch Liv Tyler’s Architectural Digest house tour and weep), recently I’ve found myself comforted by the mundane. Instagram right now offers endless peeks into kitchens famous — Gwyneth Paltrow is posting unedited videos of her and her kids’ dinner prep, Eric Ripert is prolifically churning out home cooking tutorials — and non-famous alike, as seemingly everyone I’ve ever met is now streaming directly from their homes and into mine.

Needless to say, peeping the kitchen tools, artwork on the walls, perky plants, and other delightful home touches (I’ve spied some excellent stocked bar carts through Zoom) provides a much-needed shopping distraction right now.

Things to buy

East Fork’s Monochrome 3-Piece Dinner Set

H/t to Khushbu Shah for reminding us how crucial serrated knives are. I love my powerful little Wusthof serrated paring knife, while Eater EIC Amanda Kludt is a fan of Food52’s 9-inch serrated knife.

Le Creuset has been having major sales, so you can get a 4.5-quart Le Creuset Dutch oven right now for $268 (and other pieces for much cheaper, if you’re not looking to spend that much).

I’m getting envious of everyone’s speckled dishes (mugs at the edge of the photo frame, plates under baking attempts), which I’m convinced 99 percent of the time are East Fork’s signature dinner plates in “soapstone” (sort of a grayish pale blue). This Etsy set offers a similar vibe.

Any sad home desk situation can be helped (even if just a little? Maybe??) with a glass water carafe. I’ve always liked the cork-topped ones, like this glass pitcher from CB2 or an even cheaper one from Target.

Things to know, merch-that-gives-back edition

Prominent PR agency Care of Chan has launched a shopping initiative called Save Restaurants, curating an online shop with merch (some you may already recognize) from restaurants such as Contra, Chez Ma Tante, Frenchette, Gjusta, Sqirl, Tacos 1986, and Veselka. Check out this Roberta’s sweatshirt.

Merch 4 Relief is partnering with restaurants to create and sell new merch, with 95 percent of the profits going directly to the restaurant and 5 percent to a restaurant-worker relief fund. Restaurants include Eem in Portland, Oregon; Canlis in Seattle; and Toro in Boston. Seeing as I’m Philly born and bred, I’m eyeing this Palizzi Social Club tee.

This new Court Street Grocers T-shirt comes courtesy of Merch Aid, which is creating merch by pairing artists with small businesses — restaurants, markets — to design original items.

Bragard, maker of classic, simple aprons, is working with the Polonsky & Friends agency to sell a new version of its iconic Travail apron, with 100 percent of profits going to the Restaurant Employee Relief Fund.

John Donohue, an artist creating framed NYC restaurant prints, is also using his work to contribute, donating 50 percent of all print sales to the Restaurant Workers’ Community Foundation’s relief fund.

For more intel on local merch in specific U.S. cities, check out these lists.

Vox Media has affiliate partnerships. These do not influence editorial content, though Vox Media may earn commissions for products purchased via affiliate links. For more information, see our ethics policy.

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Chefs+Tech: The Rise of the Grocerant

Sushi Kano, pictured, inside a Whole Foods in New York, is another entry in the growing field of U.S. "grocerants." Sushi Kano

Skift Take: The addition of restaurants to retail has been a big shift in U.S. dining habits and one that finds plenty of antecedents around the world.

— Jason Clampet

Editor’s Note: In September we announced that Skift was expanding into food and drink with the addition of the Chefs+Tech weekly newsletter.

We see this as a natural expansion of the Skift umbrella, bringing the big picture view on the future of dining out, being fanatically focused on the guest experience, and at the intersection of marketing and tech.

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Dine? Shop? Same Diff

On the heels of the recent closing of Eataly’s Flatiron restaurants (for revamp or permanently, TBD), Eater published a piece discussing the uptick in restaurants that house themselves inside grocery stores. It’s actually a pretty interesting trend: From all day cafés like cooler-than-cool Gjusta in Venice or the much-lauded Tartine Manufactory in SF (the list goes on), it’s clear that the model where you dine, shop, muse, meander, and ogle bicep-y bakers covered in flour as they pull giant levains out of the oven is here to stay.

Whole Foods, however, is leading the charge (as per usual) across the country, with glorified food halls that include a wide array of cuisines, from a Kano sushi bar to a Frankie’s Spuntino location at its newest location in New York, specifically. According to Eater, data supports the claim: “revenue for prepared food service at supermarkets grew an average of 10 percent a year from 2005 to 2015, according to Technomic Inc., a research and consulting group.” Just make sure to bring a puffer when you go for date night in the frozen food section is all we’re sayin’.

Americans Are Eating Out a Lot Less, and It’s Hurting Restaurants

Fortune reported on the recent Reuters data — a poll of more than 4,200 U.S. adults from Jan. 14 to 25 who claim to be eating out less often than three months ago. Of those polled, 62 percent cite cost as the issue. “There’s more splintering of the food dollar, and the pie isn’t growing,” said Bob Goldin in the piece, partner and cofounder of food industry strategy firm Pentallect Inc. “Where you spend has changed more than the amount you spend.” Whether it’s the advent of the meal-kit or the increasing dichotomy between fast casual and fine dining, the middle of the road — you and me looking for a bite on a Wednesday — are looking for new options and it may mean death to the neighborhood restaurant. Minimum wage is rising. Rents are rising. Diners are slowing. And let’s not forget what “pundits” are saying about what automation can do for the restaurant industry, of all levels. You do the math.

Yelp Acquires Waitlist Company Nowait for $40 Million in Cash

If you happen to have lingered in the dusty back yard of Sonoma’s Fremont Diner as you wait for your chicken and waffle brunch of late, you are familiar with Nowait, a restaurant tech company that manages online waitlists for those spots that, well, need them. In a logical move for Yelp Reservations, the company just brought Nowait into the fold with an acquisitioned positioned to compete with other booking services and their abilities to help a restaurant manage its house. Basically, remember those awkward black buzzers you used to wander around the mall with while you waited for a table at, dare we say, Cheesecake Factory? Now they’re on your phone. It’s about time.

Digestifs:

An interesting read about the unexpected effects of Starbuck’s 10,000 immigrants policy on its brand image…it’s not what you think.

The Food52 Lifestyle Experience. Read about how it works from a financial standpoint.

Finally something to get excited about in the delivery space — this start up is training refugees to cook the cuisines of their homelands for hungry, ethnic-food crazed New Yorkers.

Because it wouldn’t be a C+T in recent memory if we didn’t wonder what the heck is cookin’ at the White House these days.

Author of new book The Underground Culinary Tour: How the New Metrics of Today’s Top Restaurants Are Transforming How America Eats talks to local NPR and it’s worth a listen.

Those 3D pizza-printing machines are making money.

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Gjusta, 320 Sunset Ave, Venice, CA 90291

The sheer breadth of offerings at Gjusta is overwhelming and much of it is made from scratch. It’s a deli, market, bakery, coffee bar, and café with house-smoked meat, housemade condiments, housemade spreads, their own brand of coffee, etc. Grab a number and peruse the menu. They’ll call the numbers out and also show the numbers on a small display screen. Or there’s an express line if you just want pastries and bread.

The menu includes breakfast, soups, salads, small plates, flatbread pizza (sold by the slice, looked pretty flat), sandwiches, plates, and desserts. The pastries include croissants (sold out), cookies, pies, cake slices, etc. They also have whole loaves of bread and bagels (sold out). The market has honey, preserves, biscotti, Gjusta olive oil, spices, granola, nuts, etc.

Pate baguette ($16): baguette, pate, mustard, arugula, pickled red onion. Love all the ingredients but the sandwich lacked balance because the flavors were so strong. They used a lot of Dijon mustard. I like Dijon but the mustard made it hard to taste the pate. Everything was fresh and high quality. The baguette was very chewy – a tad too much so I think. It’s a small sandwich, maybe 6 inches by 2 inches.

Small case salad ($10): farro, carrots, avocado, cilantro: Deliciously nutty, creamy bits of avocado, crunchy carrots.

I’ve had their baklava croissants and biscotti before. So good. The baklava croissant is pretty sweet but that’s to be expected.

They add a 15% service charge to takeout orders and 20% to dine in checks. There is a large outdoor patio and also counter seating inside. It’s a popular place, so try not to go on a weekend. Breakfast served till 2:30 PM. Parking isn’t easy to find but it’s not as bad as Abbot Kinney.

It’s a cute older brick building with wood floors. Gjusta Goods is a few steps away. Gjusta Grocer is closer to the boardwalk. Service was friendly. Cash is not accepted.

4 out of 5 stars

By Lolia S.

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And other good purchases for right now, from the ‘Add to Cart’ newsletter This post originally appeared on April 14, 2020, in Add to Cart — the weekly newsletter for people who love shopping (almost) as much as they love eating. Subscribe now. I’ve always been a sucker for house tours. I’ll watch Vogue’s 73 Questions videos with the sound off, just to peep the houses; I love a good Curbed House Calls column; and I regularly fall down Apartment Therapy clickholes looking at other people’s apartments. While the slick, produced tours can be ultra satisfying (or devastating — watch Liv Tyler’s Architectural Digest house tour and weep), recently I’ve found myself comforted by the mundane. Instagram right now offers endless peeks into kitchens famous — Gwyneth Paltrow is posting unedited videos of her and her kids’ dinner prep, Eric Ripert is prolifically churning out home cooking tutorials — and non-famous alike, as seemingly everyone I’ve ever met is now streaming directly from their homes and into mine. Needless to say, peeping the kitchen tools, artwork on the walls, perky plants, and other delightful home touches (I’ve spied some excellent stocked bar carts through Zoom) provides a much-needed shopping distraction right now. Things to buy East Fork’s Monochrome 3-Piece Dinner Set H/t to Khushbu Shah for reminding us how crucial serrated knives are. I love my powerful little Wusthof serrated paring knife, while Eater EIC Amanda Kludt is a fan of Food52’s 9-inch serrated knife. Le Creuset has been having major sales, so you can get a 4.5-quart Le Creuset Dutch oven right now for $268 (and other pieces for much cheaper, if you’re not looking to spend that much). I’m getting envious of everyone’s speckled dishes (mugs at the edge of the photo frame, plates under baking attempts), which I’m convinced 99 percent of the time are East Fork’s signature dinner plates in “soapstone” (sort of a grayish pale blue). This Etsy set offers a similar vibe. Any sad home desk situation can be helped (even if just a little? Maybe??) with a glass water carafe. I’ve always liked the cork-topped ones, like this glass pitcher from CB2 or an even cheaper one from Target. Things to know, merch-that-gives-back edition Prominent PR agency Care of Chan has launched a shopping initiative called Save Restaurants, curating an online shop with merch (some you may already recognize) from restaurants such as Contra, Chez Ma Tante, Frenchette, Gjusta, Sqirl, Tacos 1986, and Veselka. Check out this Roberta’s sweatshirt. Merch 4 Relief is partnering with restaurants to create and sell new merch, with 95 percent of the profits going directly to the restaurant and 5 percent to a restaurant-worker relief fund. Restaurants include Eem in Portland, Oregon; Canlis in Seattle; and Toro in Boston. Seeing as I’m Philly born and bred, I’m eyeing this Palizzi Social Club tee. This new Court Street Grocers T-shirt comes courtesy of Merch Aid, which is creating merch by pairing artists with small businesses — restaurants, markets — to design original items. Bragard, maker of classic, simple aprons, is working with the Polonsky & Friends agency to sell a new version of its iconic Travail apron, with 100 percent of profits going to the Restaurant Employee Relief Fund. John Donohue, an artist creating framed NYC restaurant prints, is also using his work to contribute, donating 50 percent of all print sales to the Restaurant Workers’ Community Foundation’s relief fund. For more intel on local merch in specific U.S. cities, check out these lists. Vox Media has affiliate partnerships. These do not influence editorial content, though Vox Media may earn commissions for products purchased via affiliate links. For more information, see our ethics policy. from Eater - All https://ift.tt/3chKARd

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