Doughboys Bakery

Today I finally had a chance to visit one of my all-time favorite lunch spots, Doughboys Bakery. If you're familiar with Toast, it's on the other side of 3rd, one block east. Certainly a better alternative to the scene-y, one-hour wait at Toast, and better food in my opinion.

Doughboys has your typical bakery cafe fare, such as breakfast, soups, salads, cakes, bagels, cookies, muffins, etc., but I go there for the sandwiches. Being that it is a bakery, Doughboys pride themselves not only on the fillings, but on the bread the sandwich is served on. My personal favorite is the portobello mushroom sandwich on a French baguette. My stomach tends to do all the thinking when I'm at a restaurant, so I usually forget to take the picture before I start eating. (Notice the premature bite on the top-left, as well as cole slaw damage)


As you can see from the picture, Doughboys does a good job serving their sandwiches according to the form factor of the bread. For this particular, notice how they hollowed out the middle of the baguette somewhat to all for the mushrooms, radicchio, and artichoke pesto, with a little parmesan sprinkled in there as well.

My other recommendations are Fat Boy burrito (pulled pork -- crazy good, 2nd favorite, not on the menu I don't think) or the Artichoke sandwich. Make sure to avoid the S.O.S. (Shit On a Shingle) by all means. As optimistic as I was ordering it, it really does look like someone shitted on your plate.

Doughboys Bakery
8136 West 3rd Street
Los Angeles, CA 90046
www.doughboys.net