Avocado Grill - Larchmont

217 N Larchmont Blvd, Los Angeles 90004 between 1st St & Beverly Blvd 323-962-3880

Just reading the word "avocado" makes me want to vomit. The combination of slimey, squishiness coupled with snotty shades of extraterrestrial intestines... uugh. In fact even typing it is less than fun, therefore throughout the remainder of this blog, I shall henceforth refer to the dreaded "A" word as "Kryptonite" and I urge all future contributors to follow suit, otherwise I may have to invent a puke-proof keyboard. So why am I even entering this establishment without an air-sickness bag? Because Lorenzo and I really wanted to try Larchmont Deli, but it was closed on Sunday. Being the hungry people that we were (and usually always are), I employed my beyond-superhero-strength to overcome the evil forces of Kryptonite. Actually, Lorenzo loves Kryptonite so I went in partly to make him happy too. The place was pretty quiet, as most probably are at 3:30pm on Sunday - no wonder we actually found a parking spot. He ordered the roasted vegetable burrito - $7.95 (caramelized onions, fire roasted corn, choice of cilantro or white rice, black or pinto beans, guacamole, pico de gallo and sour cream) PLUS chicken (add $2.00). For a minute there you actually thought he would eat a meatless item? Ha! I had a bowl of tortilla soup $5.95 and a bottle (yes, an actual glass bottle) of Lime Soda. The evil forces were surely conspiring against me as my soup arrived with - yep, you guessed it - a slice of Kryptonite right smack in the center. I quickly removed it and gave it to Lorenzo before it had a chance to contaminate the rest of my meal. The soup itself was really more of a spicy tomato sauce with a few strands of crisp tortilla strips that didn't stay crisp for long. Lorenzo's burrito had some noticeably sweet roasted corn, and ironically no Kryptonite. Long story short - dunking his burrito into my soup - or, if you prefer, pouring my soup over his burrito - was a very tastey combination of two otherwise mediocre entrees.