LOKAL: Hamburger like there is no here, and crispy chicken as it should be here

It started as a startup and continues with statements about the lab, but it all disappeared with the first sound of the crunch

Yaniv Granot

12/12/2021

Sunday, 12 December 2021, 08:00 Updated: 08:37

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Our entire profit.

Local (Photo: Haim Yosef)

Nothing around Pittsburgh hints at unusual dramas and passions. On the contrary. The small town in Kansas - 20,000 residents in the most optimistic population registers - suffers from a cold winter and hot summer, providing entertainment and interest especially on Friday nights, subject to the regional high school football game schedule. Americana is calm. Until you get to the fried chicken.

a comprehensive BBC article about a year ago mapped out what was defined as "America's Pride Chicken War." She went back at least eight decades in time, described the construction of the two local chicken anchors, measured less than 100 meters between them and drew a fascinating profile of the two women responsible for this thrilling battle.

Four generations later, "Chicken Annie's" and "Chicken Mary's" still force the locals to choose a side, providing them with a few more legacy chapters in return. And perfect chicken of course.

The story is enviable, including the stirrings, intrigues and mutual respect.

In some ways, it can only exist in the United States.

In another sense, the temple is historical accuracy and this thing called "facts", the history of Pride Chicken begins in general in Scotland.

In our private sense, one can finally talk about immigration.

Jerusalem food returned from Istanbul

Avi Levy worked for two years on Turkish shawarma.

That's the result

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Crispy, sharp, assertive.

The local chicken

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Like quite a few start-ups that really meet a need, he has amassed a quick backlash.

Like quite a few crowded Tel Aviv apartments, the deep oil in the air clashed with the desire for pajamas with the scent of fabric softener

Alon Peled took advantage of the corona to pick up in his crowded Tel Aviv apartment a very tasty and very efficient chicken start-up, with underground characteristics and a growing demand.

Like quite a few start-ups that really meet a need, he has amassed a quick backlash and real hope.

Like quite a few crowded Tel Aviv apartments - and I'm not just talking here about those that suddenly contain industrial fryers - the deep oil in the air clashed with the desire for pajamas with the scent of fabric softener, and the whole business required rethinking.

The result is a partnership with Aviv Cohen and the establishment of LOKAL (or LO.KAL, or Lokal, or Lo.Kal, or any of the non-local variations that do not make you linguistically-linguistically chilling), a kind of modest but present roadside inn, which should have taken place in Nashville and forced instead It's a real estate compromise on Ehad Ha'am Street. The profit, as you probably understood, is all ours.

Do not oppose the occupation

The ideal starting point for your next picnic

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Not a monster, yes you excel.

Local Hamburger (Photo: Walla !, Yaniv Granot)

In other words, these burgers are the meaty Amsterdam cookie you never knew you wanted

The menu here is as tight as Don Draper's tie and loose as Roman Roy's tie - one burger, one chicken, one vegan, with fries on the side and a large bowl of kombucha that can come innocent or alcoholic, of your choice (alcoholic).

The hamburger (NIS 48 for a double with fries, NIS 35 for one patty without fries) is actually two patties with a cumulative size of about 160 grams, from the smash genre that has seemingly become popular here in recent years, but in practice has hardly provided a real smash . Up to now.

A dedicated iron weight flattens the patties on the plancha and turns them into something that stabilizes right in the middle of the scale between crispy and juicy. Koji salt (sea salt and fermented rice powder) that is sprinkled on top ahead of time takes care of the umami, and cedar cheese tucked between them on the way to the rolls, turns the burgers into an Amsterdam meat cookie you never knew you wanted.

These, along with standard lettuce-pickles-onions and an excellent homemade sauce 'complement an outstanding sandwich, very different from the urban burger monsters, and surpass them, at least for anyone (me) who looks at them already with an open mouth, but with a yawn.

Two excellent sandwiches in Tel Aviv

Handmade pastrami, and hills of roast beef

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Not massive, but ideal.

Local Crispy Chicken (Photo: Walla !, Yaniv Granot)

This is a real crispy chicken, Zionist and local and crunchy to the point of earthquake

The second anchor of the local is of course what started this whole story - a real crispy chicken, Zionist and local and crunchy to the point of earthquake.

The medium-sized slice - again, not massive but ideal for maintenance, holding and holding - fried twice (a close look at the bowl waiting for the second frying revealed no need to jump back into the oil, but maybe hunger spoke), tucked into the same soft bun, hugged by the same cheese and wrapped In garlic aioli and pepper sauce and garlic fermented in honey.

The chicken itself (48 shekels with chips) is great to make, with an ideal crispy-juicy-crispy panorama. Along with the vegetables and bun - also excellent - the gummy aioli and the relatively special sauce, a new entry has been recorded here from the corner for your judgment to the top of the municipal sandwich parade. Or for anyone born with a Z in their mouth - Crispy Chicken Bomb.

Apart from these, Lokal also offers French fries in two versions - industrial but well executed, and also industrial but well executed with a salt-vinegar seasoning with a British accent - and the same sweet combo, a kind of handmade tea pharmacy, which receives a different alcoholic match at each batch .

My version, which has disappeared down the non-satisfying personality that I routinely maintain, has paired Caribbean rum with tropical pineapple.

At NIS 22, it was very lucrative, both as a trip overseas and as a Tel Aviv cocktail.

3 bombs at 200 meters

The Tel Aviv hamburger battle continues, with a new-old claimant to the crown

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Give a bite of magic.

Local (Photo: Haim Yosef)

Peled and Cohen worked in quite a few places with high culinary ambitions, and decided to leverage the coronal whirlpool of cards and press shoulders (and back, hands, and eyes. Beauty of chemistry is there in the back of the kitchen).

That does not mean they will stop here.

Every question of mine was answered with a smile that was a little sparkling and a little bastard, and a statement about future specials, a future place, and the future in general.

One can treat all of these (and public statements about "lab," "scientists," and "pharmacists") in a mixture mixed with skepticism, and one can simply give another bite of magic, hear the stomach embrace for a moment with the head, and wait with excited patience for the next step.

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