A couple months back I was in LA and I met my friend and pasta fairy Godmother

Evan Kliman for dinner. She's also the host of the radio show and podcast Good Food.

And he went to this place called Pigea Palace that I've been dying to try. It builds itself as an Indian American sports bar.

So there are tons of TV showing different games and bar food with Indian and Italian influences.

So think like pizza with chutney on top, onion rings made with

Dosa batter, pasta with Indian spices. So we order all those items because those

are the dishes that I've heard you have to try at this place. And then at the last second, Evan adds one more item to our order.

A Caesar salad.

I had all about the pizza and pasta and onion rings in Pigea Palace. No one ever talked

to me about the salad.

Evan, who had been there before, said she'd never had it.

So her snap decision to order it sort of surprise both of us.

Then the salad came, and we went from surprised to blown away.

Here's Evan.

This was just so from out of left field,

a banger.

I mean it was incredible.

So on the menu it just said Caesar salad.

Exactly.

We ordered it knowing nothing more than that.

We assumed just knowing what Pheja Palace does, like oh there's going to be some kind of a twist.

So producer Emma Morgenstern reached out to Pigea Palace.

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