Bar Chelou Modern bistro Bar Chelou is now open in Pasadena, bringing clam toasts, morcilla “cigars,” a vegetarian take on steak au poivre, and boudin blanc with Japanese curry to the space next to the historic Pasadena Playhouse. So it was really rough, and I really wasn’t ready to do that right away.” Bar Chelou has taken over the restaurant …
Francisco Aguilar calls out the name on my order. Through one of the windows of Simón, the admiral-blue mariscos truck he parks six days a week at Sunset Triangle Plaza in Silver Lake, he hands me a plate with two tacos — a fish al pastor and a shrimp-filled gobernador. Customers wait for their orders at the Simón mariscos truck …
