"One of Los Angeles's most popular underground dinners has finally landed a home after years in limbo. Chainsaw, which took off as a dinner pop-up/party in Karla Subero Pittol's Echo Park garage, is opening a cafe in the Melrose Hill neighborhood on November 13th. Expect the pies and ice cream Chainsaw is famous for, as well as arepas, pabellón criollo, and golden empanadas."
""This place is hard to describe," says Subero Pittol. "I keep calling it a micro cafe, but sometimes I call it a bakery, sometimes I call it a restaurant. I think everything I do is a little bit of everything that I do." That "everything" goes all the way back to college, when Subero Pittol would host dinner parties called Chateau Whatever in her apartment. "I started cooking and feeding like 70 hungover kids every weekend," she says. "It's how I paid my rent through college.""
Chainsaw began as a dinner pop-up and party in Karla Subero Pittol's Echo Park garage and will open a permanent cafe in Melrose Hill on November 13th. The cafe will serve Chainsaw's pies and ice cream alongside arepas, pabellón criollo, and golden empanadas. Subero Pittol calls the space a micro cafe, bakery, and restaurant hybrid that reflects many aspects of her cooking. She began by hosting large college dinner parties called Chateau Whatever, which helped pay her rent. She cooked in Paris at a small cafe and put specials like a strawberry and basil creme brulee on the board. She later worked at Animal and Here's Looking At You, where her bar pies became popular.
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