Grand Central Market, Los Angeles, USA: The hippest market in Downtown LA

By Stephanie Wood
February 28 2015 - 12:15am
Wexler's Deli is one of the new eateries that have helped turn Los Angeles' dowdy and under-used Grand Central Market into a drawcard once more.  Photo: Photograph: Jakob N. Layman
Wexler's Deli is one of the new eateries that have helped turn Los Angeles' dowdy and under-used Grand Central Market into a drawcard once more. Photo: Photograph: Jakob N. Layman
Wexler's Deli is one of the new eateries that have helped turn Los Angeles' dowdy and under-used Grand Central Market into a drawcard once more.  Photo: Photograph: Jakob N. Layman
Wexler's Deli is one of the new eateries that have helped turn Los Angeles' dowdy and under-used Grand Central Market into a drawcard once more. Photo: Photograph: Jakob N. Layman
Wexler's Deli is one of the new eateries that have helped turn Los Angeles' dowdy and under-used Grand Central Market into a drawcard once more.  Photo: Photograph: Jakob N. Layman
Wexler's Deli is one of the new eateries that have helped turn Los Angeles' dowdy and under-used Grand Central Market into a drawcard once more. Photo: Photograph: Jakob N. Layman
Wexler's Deli is one of the new eateries that have helped turn Los Angeles' dowdy and under-used Grand Central Market into a drawcard once more.  Photo: Photograph: Jakob N. Layman
Wexler's Deli is one of the new eateries that have helped turn Los Angeles' dowdy and under-used Grand Central Market into a drawcard once more. Photo: Photograph: Jakob N. Layman
"Legacy tenant" Tacos Tumbras a Tomas. Photo: Amparo Rios
"Legacy tenant" Tacos Tumbras a Tomas. Photo: Amparo Rios
"Legacy tenant" Tacos Tumbras a Tomas. Photo: Amparo Rios
"Legacy tenant" Tacos Tumbras a Tomas. Photo: Amparo Rios
OG pastrami sandwich from Wexler's Deli. Photo: Photograph: Jakob N. Layman
OG pastrami sandwich from Wexler's Deli. Photo: Photograph: Jakob N. Layman
Bacon, egg and cheese sandwich from Eggslut. Photo: Photograph: Jakob N. Layman
Bacon, egg and cheese sandwich from Eggslut. Photo: Photograph: Jakob N. Layman
"Legacy tenant" Tacos Tumbras a Tomas. Photo: Amparo Rios
"Legacy tenant" Tacos Tumbras a Tomas. Photo: Amparo Rios
"Legacy tenant" Tacos Tumbras a Tomas. Photo: Amparo Rios
"Legacy tenant" Tacos Tumbras a Tomas. Photo: Amparo Rios

At 10.45am on a Sunday morning at Grand Central Market in Downtown Los Angeles, I join the back of the queue at Eggslut. To keep me occupied, I have a takeaway espresso coffee from G&B and a view of people getting a "Kick Start" from Press Brothers Juicery. A Press Brothers sign tells me that a 16oz Kick Start is $8. It tells me that a Kick Start's ingredients are reverse osmosis water, apple cider vinegar, raw honey and chia seeds, and that the beverage is alkalising, a lymphatic booster and an excellent source of Omega-3, fibre and protein. For a queue like this though - it reaches 20 metres or more back towards Belcampo Meat Co - a Press Brothers "Longevity", a carrot, pear, beet, lemon, beet greens and ginger combination claimed to rejuvenate the blood and liver, might be more appropriate. A chirpy Eggslut-ee is moving along the queue handing out menus. I don't need one. I already know what I want for my late breakfast (which, at this rate, I'll be eating around dinner). I'm armed with the information that the "Bacon, Egg and Cheese" is quite the thing (hardwood smoked bacon, "over medium" egg, cheddar cheese and chipotle ketchup in a warm brioche). I'll have Eggslut's signature "Slut" another day.