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Los Angeles Times
30-07-2025
- Business
- Los Angeles Times
Chef That! Egg Salad Sando with Sang Yoon
Sang Yoon, the founder of Helms Bakery, makes his egg salad sandwich, inspired by the versions at Japanese convenience stores and old-school Jewish delis.
Los Angeles Times
26-07-2025
- General
- Los Angeles Times
Sang Yoon's Egg Salad Sando
Chef Sang Yoon opened an all-day bakery cafe in the historic Helms Bakery complex in Culver City. Yoon's Helms Bakery is 14,000 square feet of baked goods (pies by the slice, cakes, cookies, sourdough loaves and more), snacks, coffee, soft drinks, packaged takeout items, a hot-dish lunch menu and sandwiches. This one — a recipe for his take on the egg salad sandwich — is inspired by the kind of sandos you find at convenience stores in Japan, as well as the Jewish deli version. Get out two pots for boiling eggs. One pot is for 10-minute eggs, and the other is for 8-minute eggs. The softer-boiled eggs and their jammy yolks are featured split open in the middle of the sandwich, served on slices of fluffy milk bread with their crusts cut off. Yoon has a couple of flavor-producing tricks, including onion powder, chicken bouillon powder and, yes, MSG, for extra tasty egg salad.
Time Out
06-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Time Out
Helms Bakery and See's Candies are teaming up for some limited-time, chocolatey treats this summer
Today is National Doughnut Day, and in case you needed another reason to reach for a deep-fried treat, Culver City's Helms Bakery will be frying up a weekend-only special doughnut in collaboration with beloved chocolate brand See's Candies. The locally founded company operates one of its main chocolate factories just a few blocks away on a busy stretch of La Cienega Boulevard. The See's Toffee-ette doughnut ($5) consists of a raised yeast round filled with toffee cream and topped with chocolate glaze, crushed Toffee-ettes and drizzled white chocolate. I actually had the opportunity to try the doughnut in a day-before preview, and it's delicious. The toffee cream isn't overpoweringly sweet, and the chocolate glaze plays nicely with the crushed nuts and toffee and hint of white chocolate. The limited-time item is available from today (while supplies last) through Sunday, June 8, with the potential to continue into subsequent weekends, depending on popularity and supplies. By our accounts, Helms Bakery is already home to some of the city's best doughnuts —though fewer than a half dozen flavors are available at any given moment. The Toffee-ette doughnut is the first of a series of limited-time collabs between the two iconic L.A brands, according to Sang Yoon, the chef-owner of the newly revived Helms Bakery. Over the summer, the Culver City bakery, deli and gourmet market plans to unveil at least three unique items—a pastry, a sundae and a drink—inspired by See's signature sweets.
Los Angeles Times
28-03-2025
- Business
- Los Angeles Times
Expansive offices for Apple are rising in Culver City
At a time when many office developers are on the sidelines because of the soft leasing market, Apple Inc. is well underway on construction of a splashy new office complex of its own on the border of Culver City and Los Angeles. With excavation for an underground garage completed, construction crews have erected cranes and are building upward on two bronze-colored structures expected to house Apple's television streaming service and expand its presence in Culver City. Apple TV+, launched in 2019, is known for such TV shows as 'Severance,' 'The Morning Show' and the comedy 'Ted Lasso.' In 2022, Apple became the first streamer to win an Academy Award for best picture for family drama 'CODA.' Apple TV+ is so far not profitable for the Cupertino-based company. News site The Information reported this month that Apple TV+ was losing $1 billion annually. But the work on the new office campus suggests Apple is committed to the prestigious streaming service and the attention it brings to the $3.37-trillion company. An Apple spokesperson didn't respond to requests for comment about the project. Apple announced the office development in 2021, saying it would erect two mid-rise buildings as tall as five stories with a total of more than 550,000 square feet. They will be connected by a shared wall on multiple parcels in Culver City and Los Angeles surrounded by Venice, National and Washington boulevards. The offices will have an interior courtyard and are expected to house up to 2,400 employees. The parcels were previously occupied by small retail and light industrial buildings, but the neighborhood near Metro's E Line station in Culver City has been transformed in recent years with new office, residential and hotel projects. 'Culver City is one of the most vibrant office environments throughout all of Los Angeles,' real estate broker Jeff Pion of CBRE said. Among the high-profile tech and entertainment businesses located there are Apple, Sony Pictures Studios, Amazon MGM Studios, TikTok Inc., Technicolor and Beats Electronics, a subsidiary of Apple. Close neighbors of the coming Apple offices include Ivy Station, a $350-million residential, hotel and office complex where the anchor office tenant is HBO. Next door is the historic Helms Bakery campus, a former bread factory dating to the 1930s that now houses home furnishings and design stores, and restaurants. Walter N. Marks III, whose family has owned the Helms property for decades, said one of the main appeals of the Apple site is its transit accessibility with the train station and bus service on Venice and Washington boulevards. It's also close to the 10 Freeway. Apple has said that it will provide commuting assistance for employees including shuttles and support services for bicyclists. When the Apple development is finished in about two years, it will add another shot of activity to the neighborhood, Marks said. 'We were an island for a long time,' he said of the Helms Bakery that stopped making bread in 1969. 'Obviously, bringing more people here is a good thing.'
Yahoo
29-01-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
L.A.'s Storied Helms Bakery Returns
Most people would recognize Neil Armstrong's famous utterance upon walking on the moon: 'One small step for man …'What's not as well-known about that time in history is that the 1969 space mission was rocketed into orbit stocked with bread for those astronauts made right here in L.A. at the sprawling art deco Helms Bakery ( building in Culver then, the bakery had been dubbed 'the home of the Olympic bread' after it became the official supplier to the 1932 Summer Games in Los Angeles just a year after it opened its doors. Soon, Helms Bakery was famous across the southland for its 'Helmsmen' — drivers who roamed the city in bright yellow trucks shaped like bread boxes filled with freshly baked loaves, donuts and cookies. The Helmsmen were seen as heroes to the hungry masses and signaled their arrival with a distinctive toot that brought crowds to the streets all over Southern the same year that Helms bread became the first L.A.-made crusty carbohydrate to make a lunar landing, the baking factory shut its doors. Its spectacular building would later become a shopping and restaurant emporium on Venice Boulevard which operated under the brightly lit braggadocio of its predecessor's signage: 'Olympic Bread.' Savor L.A., One Bite at a Time! Stay updated on the city's top dining spots, new openings, and food events. Subscribe to LAMag's Food Newsletter below or click here. But now, the trailblazing French-trained South Korean-American chef Sang Yoon — the man behind Father's Office in the Helms Bakery complex — has brought back not only the nostalgia of the days of the little yellow bread trucks, but also the savory and sweet goods that made the company a household name. Only, he's done it with his own unique twists, and help from executive chef Nanor Harboyan (Destroyer) and head baker Jacob Fraijo (Joël Robuchon, Thomas Keller Group).After more than a decade of renovation and planning, Yoon has made his version of history with Helms Bakery a reality with a to-die-for menu that also includes incredible hot items like crispy rotisserie porchetta, a mouthwatering display highlighted on the eatery's Instagram shortly after the 14,000-square-foot space opened its doors on Nov. Helms Bakery reboot is a grander exploration geared toward foodies — a sweet and savory rotation of deli sandwiches and morning bites, along with upscale dry goods and to-go lunch items for shoppers at the complex, which houses high-end furniture stores alongside Yoon's Father's Office, Pasta Sisters and the Austrian restaurant Lustig. Culver City's Arts District area has long been a Westside destination for Angelenos looking for old-school nostalgia, and Yoon's Helms Bakery offers a modern interpretation of comfort food geared toward the at 3220 Helms Ave., the all-day marketplace is also easily accessible, just a block from the Metro.
