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Joan's on Third is one of Los Angeles, California's premier gourmet food stores. The store and café offer fine cheeses, prepared salads, sandwiches, baked goods and non-perishables. They also offer a breakfast, lunch and dinner menu.

Joan's is located on the fashionable and artsy Third Street between the Beverly Center and Fairfax Avenue. In a area thick with restaurants, designer clothing and furnishing stores, and near The Grove's farmer's market, Joan's stands out for its focus on the best deomestic and imported products. One review recommended choosing "from a selection of prepared appetizers and antipasti, or a freshly made sandwich" for lunch.

Joan and her family bring NY style fine foods to LA

Joan’s is a family enterprise and includes gift baskets, full service catering. It has earned numerous media accolades and is popular among celebrities and gourmands alike.

Joan McNamara, the chef, creator, author and namesake of Joan's is is originally from New York and ran a cooking school before opening the LA store in 1995 as a catering company. Daughter Carol returned from Cornell University’s School of Hotel Administration to join the effort as did younger daughter Susie after graduating from Georgetown University’s School of Business. The family travels the world to source products. The hustle and bustle of Joan's is reminiscent some New York's famous foodie haunts: Zabar's, Dean & DeLuca, and Fairway. The Zagat guide calls Joan's a "small market with fun and delicious, albeit expensive, snacks, cheeses, etc."

History

In 1998 Joan's expanded into an adjacent storefront on the then-sleepy Third Street, helping to realize a "lifelong dream of opening a gourmet foods marketplace and café." San Francisco chef Chester Hastings is also on board and after coming to work at the store in 1997 and then marrying Joan. A major expansion also took place in 2007 tripling the size of the now spacious store.

The LA Times review noted that Joan's is the rare in LA specialty foods store that "stocks essentials -- salt-cured anchovies sold by the ounce, capers under salt, ricotta cheese, fleur de sel (a specialty sea salt from France), and imported De Cecco brand pasta" and "a small selection of carefully chosen cheeses, such as locally made burrata, English Cotswold, or a truffle-infused Boschetto."

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