I wrote about The Park’s Finest for Colorlines earlier this year and ever since, when I get a craving for MEAT–as in all caps, I’m not messing around MEAT–what I usually mean is I want to go to The Park’s Finest. The restaurant is a paean to the wonders of barbecued meat. In fact, Kevin refers to The Park’s Finest as “The Meat Palace.”
The restaurant, in Los Angeles’ Echo Park, is known for exceptional Filipino-style American barbecue. We’re talking tender smoked cuts of beef, pork and chicken, with every bite full of delicious, slow flavors that you can season with pungent and sweet-spicy sauces. Every visit is a treat. We get a couple meat dishes–the beef shortrib is always one of them–along with some rice, their signature cornbread bibingka of course, and we’re set. (No need to bother with vegetables here.) Just thinking of that rounded beef rib right now is making me hungry.