This Secret Pita Party Pops Up Behind Collage Coffee in Highland Park Every Wednesday | Eater LA

"Every Wednesday morning at 8 a.m. I head behind Collage Coffee in Highland Park for chef Zoë Komarin’s pita party, where you look for a sign leaning on the pebbly alley to the right of the York Boulevard coffee shop and find Komarin—curly-haired—working over a camping stove with a makeshift table garden of foraged edible flowers and bamboo steamers protecting her prized pitas. Her pitas are fluffy and chewy, the ideal pocket partner for the rotating $10 fillings she changes weekly: one week she stuffs labneh with marinated Anaheim peppers, dilly scrambled eggs, cilantro, cardamom schug, chunky carrot salad, and mustard greens; another week she serves an egg banh mi–style pita with sriracha mayo, pickled veggies, dill scrambled eggs with fresh turmeric chips, and her vegetarian “thunder sauce” (XO sauce). The pop-up is as much about food as it is about connection—Komarin says her ghost ingredient is human connection, hoping people get loose, meet new people over a messy pita, and leave feeling awake and present—and she amplifies that vibe with '90s Rugrats–esque hand-drawn merch (matches, VIP cards, signage). Her devotion to the perfect pita grew from a seven-year stint in Tel Aviv (where she worked at Café Xoho), a craving for the chewy pitas she found there, and intensive experimenting—“10 days of two batches a day”—to uncover the recipe she now sells until sold out." - Linda Hosmer