Skillet Downtown Pops Up at Tiara Café

“Cooked with skill and served with southern hospitality” is the motto of Skillet Downtown featuring Southern Fried Skillet a new pop-up restaurant that opens this Sunday from 4 - 10 p.m. at Tiara Café located in The New Mart Building, 127 E 9th Street (9th St. between Main St. and Los Angeles St.)

Southern Fried Skillet is a Pop up style pan fried chicken and biscuit dining adventure. (Check out the menu below.) Chef John Edmondson and Tiara Café owner Fred Eric first worked together at Vida restaurant in Los Feliz where John would use his Atlanta Georgian culinary background to serve up some of his family’s recipe of pan fried chicken and biscuits. Both John and Fred would fantasize (as only chefs can do) of the day they would open a restaurant built around this super tasty combination.

Fast forward 10 years and they are putting those dreams to practice. Skillet will be serving the finest chicken and organic farmer’s market produce. The duo plans to run the pop up every Sunday for the foreseeable future between 4-10 p.m., with the pop up possibly expanding into other nights of the week. There is a possibility that Tiara Café’s lunch menu will feature specials that give a taste of the south.

Edmondson and Eric will also be at the LA Street Food FEST this Saturday, serving Ham Brined Pork in-cased in a Roasted Pablano and handing out "Free Beer" tickets for the next day’s Southern Fried Skillet Pop up... It should be an awesome time.