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    Good Food

    The Baco Finds a Home at Baco Mercat

    Chef Joseph Centeno, the executive chef at the Lazy Ox Canteen in downtown LA, recently opened Bäco Mercat . Jonathan Gold describes the bäco as a flatbread, about the size of a papusa, with inventive toppings like pork belly, beef carnitas, romesco and salbitxada or merguez sausage, harissa and goat cheese.

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    By Evan Kleiman • May 12, 2014 • 1 min read

    Chef Joseph Centeno, the executive chef at the Lazy Ox Canteen in downtown LA, recently opened Bäco Mercat. Jonathan Gold describes the bäco as a flatbread, about the size of a papusa, with inventive toppings like pork belly, beef carnitas, romesco and salbitxada or merguez sausage, harissa and goat cheese.

    Bäco Mercat

    408 S Main St

    Los Angeles, CA 90013

    213-687-8808

    All of Jonathan Gold's restaurant suggestions are on the Good Food Restaurant Map.

    The full episode

    3 of 7
    Best Cookbooks of 2011, Holiday Beer, Glogg
    1. 0:00Market Report
    2. 7:46Texas Drought
    3. 16:22The Baco Finds a Home at Baco MercatYou’re reading this
    4. 23:17Holiday Brews
    5. 31:35Best Cookbooks of 2011
    6. 40:25Artisan Pizza in Five Minutes a Day
    7. 48:54A Swedish Christmas
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      Evan Kleiman

      host 'Good Food'

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      Gillian Ferguson

      Supervising Producer, Good Food

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      Laryl Garcia

      Senior Director, Good Food

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      Candace Moyer

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    The full episode

    3 of 7
    Best Cookbooks of 2011, Holiday Beer, Glogg
    1. 0:00Market Report
    2. 7:46Texas Drought
    3. 16:22The Baco Finds a Home at Baco MercatYou’re reading this
    4. 23:17Holiday Brews
    5. 31:35Best Cookbooks of 2011
    6. 40:25Artisan Pizza in Five Minutes a Day
    7. 48:54A Swedish Christmas
    Back to Good Food