10 • FOODSERVICE EQUIPMENT & SUPPLIES • MAY 2015
people & events
Small Steel-Jacketed Kettles
Take Center Stage in New
Los Angeles Restaurant
A
new restaurant concept in Los Angeles' historic Grand Central Market
features an open kitchen and small steel-jacketed kettles that Chef Mark
Peel uses to prepare a focused menu.
Called Bombo, this concept's menu features healthy, quickly prepared
dishes focused on seafood entrees. Set in a stainless steel counter, six steam kettles
are front and center in the bright, open kitchen, which provides diners some culi-
nary theatre and a look at how the chef cooks and runs his kitchen.
"Bombo's location at Grand Central Market allows me to eliminate the trap-
pings of fne dining and get right to the food, interacting with our diners," said
Peel. Most of the cooking is done for all to see in the kettles on the stainless steel
counter, providing a bit of entertainment and moving the preparation and cooking
out from behind the scenes.