Where to contact-less shop for pantry staples, produce and ready-to-make eats.
MARKETPLACE
Gwen (and its sister restaurant Maude) have converted their fine-dining rooms into a market. Shoppers can shop pantry staples, limited produce, dairy and booze IRL (6-feet apart, of course), or place their orders online for local delivery. Their daily-changing, ready-made items include chicken pot pie, Shepherd’s pie, pozole and three-course meals with optional wine pairing. Don’t miss their butcher shop which is stocked with ground beef and pork, New York strip and Wagyu steaks, and charcuterie.
Farmshop expands their local-curated market to curbside pick-up and delivery. Browse their offerings of Straus milk and yogurt, granola, bread, sliced deli meats, cheeses, premade soups and meats. On my shopping list: Pastificio dei Campi dry pastas, Jidori chicken and Vermont Creamery butter.
Place your order for Huckleberry’s $30 market box (dozen eggs, artichokes, Koda Farms garbanzo beans, spigarello broccoli, lemons, lettuce, cherry tomatoes) or all your baking needs (flour, sugar, pancake mix, ready-to-make cakes, cookies and brownies).
PRODUCE
With the closing of the city’s farmers’ markets, Angelenos can stock up on greens at Thorne Family Farm. Place your order three days in advance to pick up roadside Wednesdays (9am-2pm) and Saturdays (9am-2pm). The box of produce includes seasonal greens, herbs and fruit from the 25-acre, Malibu farm including Tuscan and curly kale, arugula, Cara Cara oranges, blueberries and strawberries. Bonus: There are also farm eggs, homemade preserves, Tartine loaves and Malibu Farm eats to replenish with too.
Thao Family Farm is also boxing up produce from their Fresno farm: $40 box gets you fennel, daikon, dill, leeks, beets, spinach, arugula, cilantro, Swiss chard, green garlic, green onions, Chinese mustard greens, tat soy, Shanghai boy chow, and spigarello broccoli. Though they don’t deliver, you can order ahead and pick up at these LA restaurants: Akasha, Broken Spanish, Highland Park Brewery, Kismet, Orsa & Winston, Phorage, Republique and Roberta’s.
MEAT & EGGS
Stock up on farm-fresh eggs and other morning musts (bacon, sausages) at Belcampo. They also offer a small selection of meats such as whole heritage chicken and ground meat for same-day, delivery.
Order your grass-fed steaks, heritage pork chops and housemade chorizo from Standing’s Butchery for delivery (with fee). They also have a selection of Kat-approved pantry items from Mother-in-Law’s kimchi and Red Boat fish sauce to local, raw honey and small-batch, bourbon barrel-aged soy sauce.
PASTRIES
Place your order today for Sugarbloom Bakery’s croissants, pain au chocolat, kouign-amann and other viennoisserie (along with cookies and my personal fave, cream cheese-glazed cinnamon rolls) for weekend-only delivery.
Clementine offers delivery and curbside pick-up of ready-to-eat sweets (banana cream pie, chocolate pudding, muffins) and bake-at-home pie, cookies, cornbread, scones and biscuits. DIY bakers can also shop yeast, flour, sugar, butter and limited fruit.
SURVIVAL KIT
Wes Avila’s Guerrilla Tacos has got your taco cravings (about 60) covered: The taco survival kit ($155) includes five pounds of roasted chicken, five pounds of carne asada, 30 eggs, red and green salsas, tortillas, rice and beans (and a roll of toilet paper, natch) for curbside pick-up. Just you? They also offer a mini kit ($80), sweet potato taco kit ($52) and nacho kit ($40).
All Time has got á la carte market items (i.e. butter, trail mix, cookie dough, chicken pot pie) as well as one-in-one kits ($250-$500). Vegetarians (pasta, rice, beans, cheese, potatoes, kale, canned tomatoes, olive oil, hot sauce, coffee), pescatarians (add two, seven-ounce salmon fillets) and carnivores (add lamb ragu and two, ten-ounce steaks) can order for curbside pick-up or delivery.
WINE
Starting April 3, Domaine LA reopens offering curbside pick-up and delivery Monday to Saturday (11am-6pm).
Westsiders can contact Esters Wine Shop for free delivery (within 5 miles of the Santa Monica storefront) for 100-dollar-plus orders $100 and 25% off wines and beer.
Photo: Jakob N. Layman
ICE CREAM
Because priorities… stock up on ice cream (plus cones and Boylan sodas for floats) at Jeni’s, who’s also delivering four to six-pint collections (i.e. dairy-free, chocolate stash) to your door.
For a small-batch option, check out Antico. The K-town ristorante is slinging focaccia pizzas and ice cream only. And lucky us, their heavenly pints are available for delivery (try the honey-swirled honeycomb topped with olive oil and sea salt at home for salty-sweet perfection).