For all the hype the Little Tokyo food scene has gotten in the last few years, there has been a surprising number of closures recently. Fierce competition and rising rents seem to be taking their toll on an area where a lot of ambitious chefs took a chance.
Saddest of all is the closure of Bryant Ng’s Spice Table.
Who else has fallen and can’t get up?
The Sandwich Smith also does a tribute to the Donut Man’s famous fresh fruit stuffed doughnuts. In the interests of science, I got the strawberry.
Little Tokyo has been a neighborhood in mourning. Since the Spice Table stopped lunch sevice, the neighborhood has been bereft of a truly great sandwich. Mike’s Deli came to try to fill the void with quantity, but the quality angle was still lacking.
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