Tale of Two Toasts: bld and King’s Hawaiian Bakery and Restaurant

Filed under: South Bay, Midtown, Eat — StyleGuide @ 12:46 pm

Could it be obsessive-compulsive disorder?  Or my post on making French toast at home?  Whatever it was, it meant that I didn’t spend the weekend registering voters or flossing or recycling.  Instead I devoted my time to something as crucial as the search for great French toast.

Saturday we tried a nice place that is a little pricey.  bld on Beverly serves up inch-and-a-half thick slices of brioche, lacy browned on the outside and as creamy as custard on the inside — bread pudding in toast form.  Unbelievably delicious, but a splurge at $11.

Cash-wise, I needed to take it down a notch.  So Sunday we tried King’s Hawaiian Bakery and Restaurant. 

King’s Hawaiian bread, the summit-shaped sweet bread in the “Hawaii Orange” plastic sack in grocery stores nationwide, comes from a 150,000 square foot facility in Torrance.  In the 1980s, the restaurant opened not far from the factory.  Today it is a busy place; the collosal decorative pineapple and dunk-tank-sized aquarium qualify it as a bit more interesting than Denny’s, but the feel is similar. 

The French toast is sliced from their sweet Hawaiian bread, cooked with egg and cinammon and delivered sponge-light and dreamy sweet.  French toast runs $8.75 — plus two eggs and a side of bacon or sausage. 

I knew I’d found a winner.

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