The Best Dishes Eater Editors Ate This Week: August 25 | Eater LA

"Inside Hotel El Roblar, this newly opened restaurant from the Little Dom’s team showcases chef Brandon Boudet’s influences from Mexican foodways, California history, and the local farmers market. Plates include king oyster mushrooms atop a verdant, herb-packed molé and, most memorably, a tomato and melon salad whose speckled appearance comes from a pre-Hispanic ingredient: chicatana ants. Tomatoes from Beylik Farms and melon hunks from Weiser Family Farms speak to Ventura County’s agricultural richness, while the ants add an almost prosciutto-like saltiness to a salad dressed simply in lemon and olive oil — in short, a dish not to miss that will beckon between bites of the suadero vampiro or crispy duck leg carnitas." - Eater Staff