12/01/08

Dirty and Rude.

by STEPHENinLA

Would be nice to see this place close and make room for something better. We tried a few times in 07-08 and I have never received such consistently rude and uninspiring service. The management must be dreadful. But it was the busboy who touched our bread with his hands immediately after clearing a table and holding a filthy bus tub, that had us electing to never return. Stay away.

• Pros: Variety of Food, Location, Late night
• Cons: Filthy, rude, all food tastes the same.

08/05/08

So glad this place has closed

by BigDog90038

I walk my dog past this "restaurant" every day. On a Sunday morning people are lined up outside waiting for tables in the stinky street. For those of you who live around here / have eaten there you know exactly what I mean. I tried it once. The food was awful. Everything tasted liked it was from a microwave. No flavor. The "regulars" block the sidewalk on Lexington by pushing tables two wide and the staff never did anything about it - so the residents of the neighborhood would have to walk out into traffic to get past this place.

The rodents!! Where do I begin. You could hear them late at night when you walk by and the streets were quiet.

Quite how this place ever lasted as long as it did is a great example of the stupidity of consumers around Hollywood. I've spoken to neighboring business owners and they could talk for hours about the dirty setting.

Can't wait to hear the official word on why it was closed. Right now there is a handwritten note in the window saying they are undergoing some repairs but until this afternoon there was a bowl of half eaten food sitting in the window and dirt all over the floors. Hopefully it won't reopen.

• Pros: Its near a Subway
• Cons: Bad food, bad service, the smell

07/19/08

Wow, can a restaurant really stay in business with these kind of servers?

by hired

First trip, a few months back, our waiter- who Ilater encountered working at a bar pulling the same kind of tricks, was hungover, he told us so, and his breath reeked, whetehr it was alcohol, herbs, or just bad hygiene- I think a combination actually- it was just plain gross. He told us his name, and that he had worked the place for 20 years. Aim low I suppose. I hadn't even realized they had been open that long. Come to find out, they hadn't. He then explained that the owners were sort of jerks, and tried to sit down to take our order. But the breath on this guy, and the way he kept sort of spitting on us as he talked inspired us to act quickly remarking a friend was in the bathroom, but "she" wasn't ordering, so we placed our order against better judgment, and when it came out, the "20" yr veteran had it wrong, completely wrong, and apologized, but somehow deduced from our glares that he wouldn't be getting a good tip so lagged on the meal the rest of the time.

Anyway, we should have left before he came back, which took forever and with the wrong order again.

Eventually we ate cold food that tasted more than a few days old. A gal pal who used to work their told us they dumped the guy, for telling the owners friends the same thing he told us.

We went back after that, and encountered a tall lanky guy, black hair. And he clearly thought he was the cat's meow, though he also proved inadequate as a waiter, bringing us the wrong drinks, and then assuring us in a few weeks there would be alcohol, and we'd really have a good time then. Maybe he meant himself, I dunno, but either way, when the food arrived , the pizza margherite was soggy and luke warm. and the muffuleta was nothing at all like a muffuleta. It tasted sour, in a metallic sort of way.

DO NOT GO HERE!!!! On the way out we saw a rodent scurry past.

• Pros: None
• Cons: Food is inedible, no parking, SERVICE IS THE PITS