Los Angeles just got a new dining destination that’s as global as it is local. Chef Rose Previte, the D.C. powerhouse behind the Michelin-starred Maydan and the globe-trotting Compass Rose, has opened Maydan Market, a 10,000-square-foot culinary playground in the heart of West Adams.
Part food hall, part community hub, the soaring, vaulted space brings together some of the city’s most exciting chefs around a live-fire hearth. It’s a fitting centerpiece for a project built on shared flame and culture—“like some villages share a well,” as Previte puts it in an official statement.
Anchoring the market is Maydan, the first L.A. outpost of Previte’s celebrated Middle Eastern restaurant, where guests can tear into house-baked bread straight from the clay oven and pass platters of charred vegetables, grilled meats and colorful spreads cooked over an open flame.
Nearby, Compass Rose brings an all-day menu of international street foods and natural wines curated by Previte’s Go There Wines label.
But the real joy of Maydan Market is its lineup of L.A.-rooted culinary voices. There’s Yhing Yhang BBQ from Chef Wedchayan “Deau” Arpapornnopparat of Holy Basil, spotlighting charcoal-grilled Thai gai yhang and punchy fermented condiments.
Lugya’h by Poncho’s Tlayudas marks the first brick-and-mortar home for Zapotec chef Alfonso “Poncho” Martínez, who celebrates Indigenous Oaxacan foodways with tlayudas and weekend tamales.
The family behind Tamales Elena debuts Maléna, devoted to Afro-Mexican Guerrerense cuisine, while Sook serves as a modern Middle Eastern market stocked with dips, spices and grab-and-go plates.
A rotating residency stall, Club 104, kicks off with Melnificent Wingz by Melissa Cottingham, giving emerging chefs a low-barrier entry point to share their food and connect with the community.
The design matches the ambition: Moroccan-style doors, Oaxacan-inspired murals, suspended greenery and thousands of colorful tiles transform the warehouse into something between a global bazaar and a cathedral to live fire.
Previte calls the project “a global village that highlights the impressive culinary world of Los Angeles while creating community and lowering barriers to entry in the food and beverage industry.” Nestled in the fast-evolving West Adams neighborhood, Maydan Market feels like a snapshot of the city itself: diverse, ambitious and united by a shared love of great food.