Mona Holmes is an editor at Eater Southern California/Southwest, a regular contributor at KCRW radio, and a 2022 James Beard Award nominee.
Grand Central Market, Downtown’s 107-year-old market and food hall, has a prominent new vendor opening this spring. Chef Eyal Shani will debut his Mediterranean street food chain Miznon toward the end of April, adding a 27th outpost to its worldwide roster of locations in New York’s Chelsea Market, Dallas, Las Vegas, Toronto, Paris, Singapore, London, and beyond. It’s the first California location for the Tel Aviv-based chain and will set up shop in the nicely sized Sari Sari space that closed in December 2023. The name of the restaurant, Miznon, translates to “canteen” or “cafeteria” in Hebrew.
Miznon Grand Central Market will showcase the chain’s signature pitas stuffed with inventive fillings like charred cauliflower swathed in tahini and crushed tomato, a Bolognese-style sauce, a folded cheeseburger, and scallion-roasted chicken liver; there’s even a dessert pita filled with chocolate and bananas. In addition to the base menu, which often evolves, Los Angeles will have its own pita with regional ingredients and flavors…