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Open Face Food Shop

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Homemade. Handmade. Honest. Your Danish inspired neighborhood sandwich shop on West Adams Blvd just East of Culver City!!

11/07/2026

Hi, everyone!
We’re still busy with our catering events, but this one is on our home turf!

Our good friends (and great artists ) The Ghost Road Company has agreed to let us host their new works showcase and fundraiser at HYA again this year. Last year was an absolute blast and definitely an experience that you will not get anywhere else.

Get off the couch and come see us Sunday!

If you can’t attend, you can still support one of the city’s most exciting live theater companies at the link in our bio. $10, $20, everything adds up and will help fund the arts community that has been abandoned by public funding. It really matters.

We would love to see you and tickets are limited so click the link soon!

Big hugs to everybody!

Mark, Lene, and the Open Face/ HYA West Adams team

08/20/2026

Friends,

Our family suffered a tremendous loss yesterday; my mother Loretta (Mama Retta to everyone that loved her) and matriarch of our clan passed at the age of 95.
I’ll share more details on my personal page Mark Houck soon, but please know that she had a long life and was surrounded by family at the end. I just returned from seeing her less than 48 hours ago, and got a chance to tell her everything I had in my heart to say (through tears I promised I wouldn’t show… didn’t do a very good job, though). It was a gift to know that she heard me, but still the hardest thing I’ve ever imagined I would do. Many of you know exactly what I mean; loss is something we all share sooner or later.

Those of you that have heard me say that I always try to behave “as if my mother were standing behind me”, it really is true. When you see me smile or laugh you will be seeing her as well, as long as I draw breath. It was her gift to me that is my joy to share with all of you, as often as I get the chance.

Lene loved her deeply as well, and their conversations about food and culture were sprinkled with as much laughter and history as they were of family and caring for one another. Some things truly do transcend time and distance, and their connection through the art of the plate was a marvel to behold.

Lene has always known that the best parts of me were a product of my mother‘s caring hand, and my mother‘s admiration for Lene‘s incredible skill and passion were a testament to everything she loved about the world.

We have a lot of details to get through, followed by a heavy catering workload, but we know we are in your thoughts, and we look forward to seeing all of you as soon as we can.

Mark snd Lene

PS, please support all of the independent restaurants you can during Dine LA- it matters.

M&L

08/11/2026

Friends,

We will be unexpectedly closed the week of 08.12- 08.16 in order to attend to family matters on the East Coast. We will resume as soon as things are settled and we appreciate your understanding.

Supper service the last 2 weeks was a BIG success and that’s all because of you; thank you to everyone for coming by! It’s been fun to find the absolute best of the markets and explore it all the way to the plate in a new way; tomatoes, summer squash, melons… everything is gorgeous right now. Lucky us.

We also just had a great Italian w**e tasting with Oliver McCrum Wines so expect some delicious new additions to the lis soon. Mark’s family is Italian (on his Mom’s side) and it will be wonderful to have a little bit of that history represented on the menu as well. The new chilled red- Schioppetino- is sure to make everyone happy, especially on these warm summer nights.

In the meantime, Lene will be here making the last of regierfamilyfarms O’Henry peaches into jam for you all and if my Goronong chilis will hurry up and ripen, we might even be able to do the Spicy Peach like last year! So, so good and it was a huge hit at the store. We sold out right away :)

Thanks again to everyone for bearing with us. With luck we will see everyone next week and please know how much we appreciate you all.

You’re the best.

-Mark and Lene

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08/07/2026

Tonight’s menu!

Service from 4pm- 7:30pm
Get here early for the half roasted chicken, we sold out last night. Just sayin…

Also, if you’ve never tried our signature Smøorrebrod as an appetizer, you’re missing out and you won’t find them anywhere else.

Come visit, this is the best time of year to be hungry! Heirloom tomatoes, summer squash, sweet peppers, corn… Hooray for summer!

Mark, Lene and the Open Face Team

PS- we had an AMAZING w**e tasting of boutique Italian Beauties from Oliver McCrum Wines, so look for that soon. Our current line up of woman made/ woman led and local w**es is still here, ready for dinner. See you soon!

M&L

08/06/2026

We’ve been getting a lot of questions about take out- and online ordering so I wanted to let you know why we’ve paused for now.

If you’ve ever seen the kitchen in our converted 1959 “Hot Dog Stand”, it’s… well, tiny. We can do great food, but we can only do so much. Until we’re fully staffed again, we need to make the neighbors that join us here at the table our priority (if you’ve only ever had take out, come sit in the garden and you’ll understand. We like to spoil people :)

Equally important, many of our dishes are meant to be eaten right away fresh out of the pan or oven, and taking them home simply isn’t the experience we want everyone to have. It’s just better to eat it here and it takes the same amount of time, so why not sit and enjoy the garden? Just sayin’… it’s really nice.

Over time as we get back to lunches and are fully up and running, we’ll get back to take out for you again.

For right now, why not come and relax, have a b**r or a glass of w**e, maybe meet a neighbor or make a new friend? Restaurants are about more than just eating, after all. Come in, sit and let us take care of you. You deserve it.

Tonights menu is posted here, so we’ll see you soon!

-Mark and Lene

08/06/2026

Amazing day at the market today! Peaches, tomatoes, and berries… Oh my!

We have a great set of menus for you this week, hope to see you for dinner service!

4-7:30 this week 🤗

Mark and Lene

Pop

07/31/2026

Hi, everybody!

Summer supper continues! It’s such an amazing time at the markets, we thought we should focus on all of the beautiful produce at this time of year… We’re so lucky!

We’ll be open for brunch Saturday and Sunday from 10 AM until 3 PM as well, so if we can’t see you tonight, we’ll see you over the weekend :-)

What a great time of year to be hungry!

Mark and Lene

07/24/2026

Good morning!

Good news, last night’s dinner test went really well (although we need to fix the lighting somewhat… it gets dark when the sun goes down! Who knew… :)

Bad news, we need to postpone tonights service; Lene and I looked at our catering workload for the weekend and we’ll never get through it if we open tonight. Sorry for the late notice but there’s just too much to do.

We learned a whole lot from last night and we appreciate everyone’s support in helping us get dinner up on its feet finally. It’s a complicated task with our existing workload but one we’re looking forward to.
Last night was just step 1.

Stay tuned for more and as always, please know how much we appreciate you… without a doubt the most wonderful bunch of people we have ever served.
Seriously.

-Mark and Lene

PS- On another note, the phones are still acting up and it says the mailbox is full (it’s not)so for now contacing us here or through the website is slower but better. We’re hoping to get that figured out soon.

M&L

07/23/2026

Hi, everyone!

We’re sold out for Thursday’s summer supper trial, but we still have a few tables for tomorrow Friday 07.24.

As a reminder, we are working with a new menu and new staff, so we’re not opening to a general audience yet; we want to make sure that with the limited staff we have, we can take good care of you. There are only 3 of us here so we want to give our new team member a smooth glide into things and make sure we can adhere to our normal standards.

As we get further along, we will extend our hours and days but for the next few days we’ve chosen to go a little more slowly.

Let me know if you would like us to hold something for you tomorrow by contacting us here and I’ll confirm if we can accommodate more tables.
Again this is just until we get things fully up and running so if we can’t take care of you this time, we expect to be back at it again soon.

Thanks!!

Warm regards,

Mark and Lene

Address

5577 West Adams Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA
90016

Opening Hours

Wednesday	11am - 3pm
Thursday	11am - 3pm
Friday	11am - 3pm
Saturday	10am - 3pm

Website

http://www.openfacefoodshop.com/

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