Head to Orange County for the Best Purple Sourdough in the Universe
September 17, 2025 | 1 min to read
At Le Hut Dinette in Santa Ana, Karlo Evaristo’s heirloom blue corn masa sourdough bread captivated diners with its deep violet hue and shiny, clarified butter coating. This unique bread beautifully complemented the tomato salad drizzled with peach vinegar and jalapeño oil, making for an unforgettable dining experience. Despite missing the initial social media craze, this discovery has become a delightful obsession.
Did you see the purple loaves of sourdough that were all over social media a few years ago? I missed them. In fact, I’m five years late to trying Karlo Evaristo’s heirloom blue corn masa sourdough bread, and I only discovered it by accident. Now, I can think of little else.
During a recent dinner at Le Hut Dinette, a new restaurant located in a Quonset hut in Santa Ana, my dinner companions ordered the sourdough bread. We wanted something to help sop up the peach vinegar and jalapeño oil in executive chef Ryan Garlitos’ excellent tomato salad.
What arrived at the table were slices of bread in a deep shade of violet. It was toasted on both sides, with umber splotches interrupting the purple, the entire surface shiny and shellacked with clarified butter.
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