Chego: Outside Inside LA Weekly

03.06.10

After my third time at Chego, I think I began to understand — Choi isn't elevating Los Angeles high road cuisine to the level of fine dining; he's using the language of fine dining to exalt the comestibles of the street.

The restaurant, stuffed into a mini-mall storefront, thrums. The order line stretches from the record to the door; customers bang into the kitchen staff when they grab cans of Korean crushed-pear tope from the glass-front refrigerators in the back, and tables combine and separate to accommodate both vast groups and the odd couple. The lines move, and the tables oust over quickly. There always seems to be a place to sit — the Chego/Kogi team is good at moving large groups of people in and out of a lacuna. Are the customers all college students? Not necessarily, but it seems like it sometimes.

Shelves near the ceiling are crammed with old cigar boxes, teeny paintings and small collections of books and toys. The hip-hop plays loud. It looks like the kind of recondite Tokyo jazz bar that can take three sets of cabbies to find.

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