"If you live in LA, dealing with Grand Central Market never seems particularly worth it, between the tourists and the lines and the inability to ever find somewhere to sit. But you should make the exception for Sari Sari Store, the Filipino rice bowl stall the Republique people opened this year. The rice bowls are great, but the breakfast sandwich is even better, and if there was one dish we couldn’t stop thinking about this year, it was their coconut pie that called to us every time we got on the 110." - jess basser sanders, brant cox