Blue Velvet
Los Angeles, CA 90017
Phone: (213) 239-0061
- Price:
- $$$
- Cross Street:
- Seventh Street
- Best of Citysearch:
- Bar Menu 2007
- Hours:
- Mon-Fri 11:30am-2:30pm, 5:30pm-10:30pm, Sat-Sun 5:30pm-10:30pm, Bar: Daily 5:30pm-close
Message from Blue Velvet
Indulge in our large seasonal chef's menu or relax by our pool.
- Late night dining
- Enjoy a drink by the pool
- Great for large parties
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Editorial Review for Blue Velvet – by Martha Burr
The Scene
Nestled inside The Flat, an edgy residential redesign of a Holiday Inn, diners perch on a hillside with a twinkling cityscape view. Two dining rooms and three lounges unfold like a dream into a series of cool, stylish spaces. Walls of glass and stones, sultry lighting and sexy rock classics entrance a high-energy mix of Hollywood producers, loft dwellers, Eastside yuppies and culinary cognoscenti.
The Food
The menu brilliantly combines French technique with compelling, modern California cuisine. Complex cooking delights with originality, as in velvety squid salad offset with fresh kumquat, chili, micro-mint and salsify "noodles." An artful squab crepinette stuffs the bird's breast with a rustic mix of mushrooms, liver and spinach. Crispy loup de mer's pure, sweet flavor is balanced with delicate saffron aioli and robust potatoes, clams and merguez sausage. Colorado lamb rack is butter tender and flavorful, tinged with mushrooms and molasses. Beet financier cake with goat cheese ice cream wins dessert's top honors.
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Insider Tips
Know Before You GoLate loungers can enjoy the haute bar menu, which features blue cheese beignets, brandade melts and warm crab dip.
What to DrinkThe sophisticated wine list offers over 100 bottles, with two dozen by the glass, ranging from boutique labels to Cristal; nearly half are priced under $50. Corkage is $20. Cocktails include green tea and chamomile martinis.
Look GoodThe chef's luxurious tasting menu changes seasonally and must be ordered by the entire table.
Where to SitA large, sunken table can be reserved for groups or is open to communal diners.
User Reviews for Blue Velvet
06/12/2008 Posted by jenheidir
If it’s raining outside, you’ll have much more fun staying at home than coming down to this place. Blue Velvet more or less turns transforms from a restaurant to a bar after 10 p.m., but when they can’t use the outdoor pool and fire pit area due to weather related reasons, the inside space isn’t well designed to allow for the flow of large crowds or to seat them. One reason to pick this place though over any of the other posh downtown bars interestingly enough is unisex bathrooms. The sinks are centered around a rock garden, and the faucets hang down from the ceilings. Drink prices are on par with other similar-styled bars in the city.
04/16/2008 Posted by Jasmine888
Was there on a Saturday for a friend's going away party. Upscale and trendy but lacks warmth. We (10-12 peeps) sat a table that was part of the bar/lounge for dinner. The table was deep-setted on the ground which looks cool at first but hard to get out. The price of each entree was pretty expensive. Which is fine if the quality of the food was great. But I ordered a steak and it was really tiny and drenched it with a type of sauce that tasted like teriyaki sauce. They also want to charge us $5 per slice of our own cake that we brought. Not to mention, one of us saw a small disgusting pest crawling by our table. When the dinner was over, the crowd started coming in and everyone was herded like cattles to stand away from the table we sat in because people can accidentaly trip over it and hurt themselves. So they wasted space with that table right in the middle of the bar/lounge with people standing around it. Also, the restroom was unisex. Though it looks nice, it's totally disgusting. I don't need to see the men coming in out of each stall. And all the stalls do not have urinals for the men so they can urinate all over the toilet. Gross! The whole night there were securities there shoving us to different parts of the bars because it was getting crowded. At the end of the night, some of my friends left to grab a bite to eat because they were starving from the small portioned dinner!
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