
Banana cream tart
$$, Outdoor Seating, Café, Bakery, Breakfast, Mission Dolores
"The individual banana cream tart is so rich and gluttonous. It's best eaten at a picnic in Dolores Park up the street."
Jessica Largey is the chef/partner at the restaurant Simone, in downtown Los Angeles. Before venturing on her own, she spent four years as chef de cuisine at Manresa. She took home a James Beard Award for the nation’s Rising Star Chef, making her the first California chef to win that award since Timothy Hollingsworth, then of the French Laundry, in 2010.