Taste of Hawthorne Gets Real Press

We scooped the New York Times! Yesterday's City Room featured local home-based restaurant Taste of Hawthorne (37 Hawthorne (gmap), and I am deeming that article a follow-up to our feature from a few weeks ago. The biggest update would have to be that the phrase "underground" is no longer apt.

The feature has a nice little slice-of-life in the middle:

On a recent Saturday evening, [Patrice] Carter raced back and forth in her kitchen between a skillet of sizzling black bean veggie burgers and a toaster oven full of buns. [Doreen] Simpson sliced purposefully through stacks of sweet potatoes. They were in the middle on an unexpected dinner rush.

In the backyard, about a dozen people lounged in wicker chairs around a small coffee table and a picnic table beneath a gazebo. Conversations turned from soccer to growing up in small towns, to corporate real estate. Dubstep rhythms pulsed through a set of speakers.

Sounds great. Congratulations to Patrice and Doreen. This will either bring them a lot of business or get them shut down. We hope it's the former!

UPDATE: NY1 covered the Times story in their "Today's Papers" segment. Check out the video, starting at around the 3:05 mark.

Photo Credit: Robert Stolarik for The New York Times