LA Restaurant Recommendation: Baroo 🌿✨

Perhaps the reason you find yourself at this restaurant Is a kind of mutual choice— A twist of fate. 💫 Baroo, a neo-Korean restaurant in DTLA I tried their vegetarian set menu—a thoughtfully crafted plant-based experience You can request it by leaving a note 24 hours in advance, and the kitchen will prepare it specially for you. 🌱👨🍳📝 The entire narrative, from appetizer to dessert, traces a journey from infancy to the end of life Lotus motifs are found throughout the space, suggesting a subtle Buddhist inspiration 🌸🍃 (Later, I read in the Los Angeles Times that the chef indeed trained in temple cuisine within Korean Zen traditions.) Perhaps because the foundation is Korean, the fermented sauces—many soybean-based—carry a familiar, comforting depth of flavor 🥢🍚 Sitting at the chef’s counter, Paired with makgeolli (rice wine), each dish felt balanced—a gentle contrast to the rich umami and occasional saltiness of fermentation. Except for one slightly salty bite, everything was truly delicious. 🍶❤️ Lately, my thoughts have circled around life—not so much about meaning, but existence, cycles, rebirth 🌌 Because being alive itself is a gift— To experience, to feel ordinary joy day by day, is already enough. ☁️💖 #MeAndThisPlaceHaveAStory #LosAngelesEats #LARestaurants #LA #RestaurantRecommendations #VegetarianFineDining #KoreanFusion #ZenCuisine #FermentationLove #TempleFoodInLA #MindfulDining #PlantBasedGourmet