La Brea Gets New Cube

It isn’t easy to find an uncrowded niche in Los Angeles’s busy restaurant landscape, but Cube, the new cheese bar, charcuterie, café, and marketplace on La Brea, can hardly be accused of chasing another restaurant’s shadow. Tapas temple A.O.C. also boasts an impressive cheese bar, but Cube offers 40 artisan-crafted varieties—such as “farmer’s five-year gouda,” produced by a co-op of Dutch farmers, and penamellera, a soft sheep, cow, and goat’s milk cheese from Spain—in a more casual, 1,500-square-foot café. And tucked behind the café, on the way to the kitchen, is a minimalist party room with red walls that can serve customized menus to a dozen guests. The owner is Divine Pasta’s Alexander Palermo.
Posted 08.24.06