Located in Los Angeles Homer Laughlin Building in Downtown Los Angeles is the city’s largest and oldest public market, Grand Central Market (which has been in the ground floor of the building since 1917).
Located at the Grand Central Market is the popular restaurant eggslut. While the name is no doubt a bit risque, in Los Angeles, the restaurant’s name is quite catchy!
eggslut specializes in egg sandwiches and are prepared on a brioche bun or house-made biscuit. Each sandwich is cooked to order and uses higher quality items and you can tell how much Angelenos love the location by its non-stop lines.
eggslut is a chef driven, gourmet food concept founded in 2011 by chef Alvin Cailan and driven by his true love for eggs.
it began as a food truck which roamed the streets of Los Angeles until he turned it into a food stall at Grand Central Market and opened in 2013.
According to Cailan, about eggslut:”The menu is a balance of comfort and innovation, celebrating food that appeals to both novice and extreme foodies through classic comfort fare with a twist; all while encompassing the key ingredient, eggs. The mission is simple yet never easy to achieve – quality and great tasting food, consistent presentation and great, friendly service. We love food. We care about the way it looks and how it tastes. We have great people working with us, and we have great friends who love our food.”
Back in 2014, “Bon Appetit” is mentioned as one of the top new U.S. restaurants and while known for having restaurants in Los Angeles (downtown LA and West LA, Venice and Glendale) in Las Vegas, eggslut recently opened up in Shibuya and also has restaurants in London in Notting Hill and Kuwait.
Many come to eggslut for their signature dish, the “Slut” which is cage-free soft-cooked egg on top of a potato puree, garnished with gray salt and chives and serived with slices of fresh baguette.
I ordered the Fairfax sandwich ($7.50) which is cage-free soft scrambled eggs with chives, caramelized onions, cheddar cheese with sriracha mayo in a warm brioche bun with a boxed water for $3.00.
The sandwich is delicious but the price isn’t too bad, with a sandwich and a water it’s a little over $10. If you are a big eater, you may want to order two sandwiches as one may not be enough for you. And considering the cost of rent at the location, I felt the price was justified.
I also commend eggslut for offering boxed water and not using plastic bottles.
There is a wait, but considering the amount of people being served, it’s still way less the wait time of many gourmet burger shops in Tokyo. 15-20 minutes at the least, so you may want to secure your seating in the tables in front of the restaurant.
With that being said, unfortunately because those are public seating, I didn’t see anyone cleaning the tables up, so be prepared if the tables are a bit on the yucky side. So, if that bothers you, bring some wet wipes with you.
Overall, eggslut is worth the hype and it’s great that there is big love for an egg-driven restaurant in Los Angeles.
But is it the best egg restaurant I have eaten at? eggslut opened in Tokyo and like Grand Central Market, photos I have seen show long lines (no surprise!). But Tokyo is also a place with numerous egg restaurants. egg from the Brooklyn is in Ikebukuro, eggcelent in Japan, as with Hawaii’s Eggs n’ Things. Each are egg driven restaurants providing many egg dishes. And each are very good in their own right and being in Tokyo, a dish also cost a lot more.
But eggslut does have its appeal as their eggs are soft, fluffy and their sandwiches are delicious and the fact that it’s been a mainstay at Grand Central Market for over five years is great and the restaurant is beloved by Angelenos and also by people who have an eggslut in their city.
So, eggslut is definitely worth the hype and a foodie will definitely want to add the restaurant to their bucketlist.
