Press
In October 2020, Chef Wes Avila opened Angry Egret Dinette, his own passion project in the heart of Chinatown, serving playful tortas, tacos and tostadas, By December of 2020, Angry Egret Dinette was named one of LA’s 10 Best New Restaurants for 2020 by Los Angeles Magazine and by Dec 2021 made the The Los Angeles Times list of 101 Best Restaurants. In March of 2022, Angry Egret Dinette was named a finalist in the James Beard Foundation Awards in the category ‘Best New Restaurant’.
Angry Egret has also won awards from outside the culinary industry. The restaurant was one of three national winners of the 2021 MasterCard Home Team Advantage Small Business Award which along with a grant, provided a grand prize of throwing out a first pitch at Game 3 of the 2021 World Series in Atlanta, Georgia, a lifelong dream for baseball fan, Chef Avila.
What people are saying
“He’s returned to his brilliant ways with tacos as well; they’re canvases for fried fish slicked with habanero aioli or cochinita pibil blasted with chile arbol or bone marrow or … it’s hard to keep up, and the online carryout menu usually doesn’t list all the day’s dishes. Best to show up and see what’s available.”
— LA Times
“It sounds corny, but you can really taste the love in a carefully made sandwich. This is certainly true at chef Wes Avila’s new venture.”
— Los Angeles Magazine
“He [Wes Avila] is just making delicious sandwiches and some tacos and all sorts of crazy things that you can never imagine what he’s going to do next in a tiny wonderful space.”
— Good Food Podcast with Evan Kleiman on KCRW
