The pizza station features fresh lunch slices (until 3 p.m.) of cheese, housemade Italian sausage or pepperoni on house-made sourdough crust. Saturday brunch is also available from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. The vibe is chill and quiet in the morning, if you need a place to get some work done away from your home or office. Drip coffee from Fidel & Co is available, as well as cold brew on draft. If you’re looking for something more savory, you can get a bagel or an egg and cheese sandwich (add house bacon for $3.50) on a bagel or a croissant. The toast itself had a perfect texture, a crisp exterior and soft pillowy interior that married perfectly with the cool, creamy ricotta and fresh jam. We tried the ricotta toast with seasonal jam, and it was like a piece of strawberry toast on steroids. In addition to the pastries, breakfast items from the bakery include three toast offerings made with house-baked milk bread. The highlights from our visits include a diamond-shaped orange-cream cheese danish (swoon), a blueberry cream cheese muffin and the brookie, which is perhaps the best brownie I’ve ever eaten. Stephanie Smittle MARKET GOODS: The pastry case at Sterling Market. Russell-Burt’s expanded offerings at Sterling Market include donuts (strawberry glaze, chocolate ganache, salted caramel and buttermilk icing flavors have been available when I’ve stopped by), Kouign-amann, muffins, pumpkin bread, banana bread, scones and a variety of bagels. Samour said his team took inspiration from Denver’s Milk Market while consulting with Cromwell Architects about the design concept. As the pandemic’s peaks and valleys wore on, ideas materialized and the group wondered if they could turn the space into a food hall.įood halls are ubiquitous in bigger cities, but aside from Little Rock’s Ottenheimer Hall in the River Market, the only food halls by definition existed in shopping mall food courts. It would also give Russell-Burt a bigger kitchen space where she could expand her baked offerings while maintaining the quality of the items she was doing in the smaller kitchen at Fidel & Co. Samour said the original idea was to take over the lease and use the building as a ghost kitchen for chefs wanting to try a new concept or get into delivery. It was around that time when Samour heard that Sterling’s previous occupant, Cathead Diner, was closing down. “I knew from interacting with them at Fidel & Co that something like Sterling would be possible.” “I saw the value in hiring them,” Samour said.
Brian Chilson BAKERY: Russell-Burt’s expanded offerings at Sterling Market include donuts, Kouign-amann, muffins, pumpkin bread, banana bread, scones and a variety of bagels.īurt and Russell-Burt both started at Fidel & Co in the summer of 2020, Samour said, and were instrumental in the development of Sterling Market’s concept. I also had a perfect chocolate chip cookie at Fidel & Co’s newer River Market spot with chocolate chips the size of quarters, as well as an unforgettable bite of cardamom coffee cake. The first thing I tried at Fidel & Co was a Saturday morning cinnamon roll (I ordered the last one and heard audible groans of disappointment in line behind me) and it was one of those bites you want to share with everyone you love, or at the very least show off to your TikTok followers. Shining as a pastry chef in Los Angeles isn’t easy, but the accolade made so much sense as I recalled the list of pastries I’ve had at Fidel & Co and Sterling Market. Other downtown coffee shops were closing, yet here was one east of Interstate 30 that was growing - and in a time when office buildings were mostly deserted. Samour opened Fidel & Co - located directly across the street from Sterling Market - eight weeks before the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, and when I became a regular a short time later, the coffee shop already felt like an established brand, with excellent coffee and food offerings. Brian Chilson THROW BACK: A nod to the market’s history with the word Sterling spelled out in paint cans. The green alley space is slated for late summer and will add an additional 126 seats to the current setup: 56 inside, 18 on each of two front patios.
SMOKED ONION JAM BUTCHER AND BEE TV
In development is an additional rain-or-shine green alley space directly behind the kitchen on the building’s northern end that will feature a retractable roof and a massive TV wall. It’s hard to miss the nod to the building’s history: The wide swath of orange and white paint cans (designed to look like Sterling originals) along the eastern wall spell out the word Sterling. Neighboring Cromwell Architects renovated the space with legacy in mind.
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