Joyce Brings Southern Food to Downtown LA

Preux & Proper Chef Sammy Monsour brings Southern dishes to the new Joyce menu in downtown Los Angeles.

Opened in August, Joyce brings a seafood focused menu and is located a few steps from Bottega Louie on Grand Street.

Owners Prince Riley and Athena Riley have done a great job redoing the old Red Herring spot, with a colorful, open and spacious dining room with booths and banquette seating, pretty paintings by artist Shannon Scates, industrial and Art Deco light fixtures and pretty growing lettuce planters. We loved the open design and blue and wood toned color scheme.

The Sunday brunch menu features a raw bar with oysters, lobster tail cocktail, caviar and chips, shrimp cocktail and Alaskan snow crab. There is also a wide variety of tinned fish including smoked rainbow trout, scallops, cockles, salmon, anchovies, razor clams and tuna belly.

Specialties include a smash burger, soft egg and burrata with Cajun ham, biscuits and sausage gravy with sunny side up eggs, shrimp and grits, truffled scrambled eggs on toast, panko French toast with bourbon-soaked blueberries, fried chicken and waffles and a huge smoked tomahawk pork chop.

Sides for the table include Meyer lemon donuts, mac and cheese, hot fried green tomatoes, cornbread and Sunday collards. Vegans can enjoy their oyster mushroom quesadilla, seasonal fruit plate, avocado toast and pear and gem salad.

Sides include thick cut bacon, house sage and sorghum sausage, maple candied crispy pork belly, brioche toad in the hole egg, hashbrowns and chorizo. Desserts include affogato and banana custard pie.

Joyce also has great brunch cocktails including their house bloody Mary, Carolina Cup with gin, sweet vermouth, cucumber mint and champagne and their Match-Cha with rum, pineapple, coconut and frozen matcha.

Well worth a trip downtown, head to Joyce for Sunday brunch or enjoy a great Southern inspired dinner. Located at 770 S. Grand Avenue, 213.395.0202.