Methane-Schmethane. Meat *Is* The Menu at LA’s New Animal.

With half the planet growing and glowing green, it had to happen.  Le Resistance.  The Uprising. The Anti-Vegan.

Meat is back with a juicy vengeance.

This week launches the proud and primal return of the carnivore, smack dab in the heart of uber-emerald Los Angeles. 

Animal is the new restaurant from gutsy chefs Jon Shook and Vinny Dotolo of Carmelized Productions.  Not surprisingly, the place is sort of tucked away, perhaps to keep rampaging greenies from tossing red paint at the unmarked door.

The menu sounds politically correct — ‘seasonal’ paired up with ‘sustainable’ — until that ‘other white meat’  (pork) shows up.  Everything sounds daringly meaty. There’s even a chocolate bar sprinkled with bacon bits.  So if you were raised in Green Bay rather than Half Moon Bay, you might just prowl on over furtively, carrying your I AM NOT A PLASTIC BAG for the leftovers.

The wine list sounds politically perfect, too.

Animal:

435 North Fairfax Avenue, between Oakwood and Rosewood Avenues, Los Angeles/Fairfax Corridor (323-782-9225).