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11407 Santa Monica Blvd (Purdue)
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doloresrestaurant.com

Last updated 1.24.11

Category:

Restaurants, Bakeries

Payment Methods:

American Express, Visa, Discover, MasterCard

Cuisine:

Eclectic & International, Traditional American

ambiance
50.0% positive
  1. Good food, new decor, free wifi
  2. However, with the new decor has come an unpleasant new attitude and vibe.
drinks
50.0% positive
  1. At $7.95, I got a tasty egg benedict with toast and coffee.
  2. Soggy fries, tastelesss hamburgers on too-soft buns, and watered down fountain drinks made Dolores' a disappointing experience.
food quality
60.0% positive
  1. Overpriced food and horribly managed restaurant
  2. They have some of the best breakfast food in town: really good omlettes, yummy breakfast potatoes, and waitresses who are nice and DON'T look like they should be on the OC.
  3. New owners have taken over and for months the place was under construction right in the middle of business hours, making it impossible to sit & eat, or enjoy your meal without sawdust in your burger.
  4. Good food, new decor, free wifi
  5. One bite of that confirmed our suspicions that Delores serves the worst food we've ever tasted.
  6. At $7.95, I got a tasty egg benedict with toast and coffee.
  7. Food was decent, I had the blue cheese burger with garlic fries,.
  8. All but a handful have been relieved of duty, leaving the remaining few rushed hurriedly running from table to table which is made glaringly apparent by the things forgotten like your toast order or that you needed a clean fork.
  9. It is now so overpriced for humdrum pablum food at poor quality that I won?
  10. Soggy fries, tastelesss hamburgers on too-soft buns, and watered down fountain drinks made Dolores' a disappointing experience.
overall
100.0% positive
  1. Might be a good place for late night hangouts,.
  2. The new owner has taken great pains to try to maintain the style of the old place; it's bright and shiny-new version of the old now boasting wi-fi connection.
  3. do have a very nice experience at Dolores , with nice servers specialy in hte morning i like the nice clientel they have off course some time arrive those wierdos from the strett and make the day very bad for every body in the restaurant
  4. The new management has made great effort to clean the place
service
71.4300012588501% positive
  1. best service nice management
  2. The hostess was not exactly friendly but we were seated.
  3. do have a very nice experience at Dolores , with nice servers specialy in hte morning i like the nice clientel they have off course some time arrive those wierdos from the strett and make the day very bad for every body in the restaurant
  4. They have some of the best breakfast food in town: really good omlettes, yummy breakfast potatoes, and waitresses who are nice and DON'T look like they should be on the OC.
  5. The management and employees are just plain nasty--no wonder it's rarely busy.
  6. The service was excellent and the 50's look was enjoyable, but please don't eat anything there.
  7. For ages it was a comfy homelike friendly place, with competent servers serving quality meals at a reasonable cost.
value
0.0% positive
  1. It is now so overpriced for humdrum pablum food at poor quality that I won?
1 Star Rating: Poor

03/05/11

Terrible Terrible

by Brut

I had been going to this restaurant for about 14 years then it was taken over by new management, well that was the end of Dolores. With the new management for the first few months the service was basically non existant, the cooks couldn't get any thing right, the waitresses were running around trying to help and the guy who now runs the place got in the way. I thought OK I'll give them time to get the place sorted out so I continued to go there and things got no better it got worse. The last time I went for breakfast there was no one working the counter its was hurry up and wait when I finally placed my order I was given my coffee and 40 minutes later was still waiting for my ham and eggs, I gave up paid for the coffee and left. I had not been back for about 9 months so today I made the mistake of going in for breakfast. The waitress could care less about taking orders, when I finally ordered the prices have gone up toast is not included with the breakfast item its hash browns or toast, I ordered the toast as well. She took my order and wandered off. So here comes the new owner and I suppose his wife the waitress runs off up to the front of the restaurant and starts yapping to her boss mean while my order is ready and sitting under the heating lamps where is the waitress? still yapping with her boss, so a waiter starts telling her the order is ready she pays no attention so he serves me my meal, I had ordered toast but its not served now the waitress is busy making her bosses wife a latte, when I ask where is the toast she's like oh wanders off to the toaster and brings me cold toast puts in on the counter and walks off like I had interrupted her day. All of the decorations and paint they have slapped on the place can't cover the fact the restaurant is poorly managed most of the waitresses could give a rip if they took your order or not. Today was the last time I will be going there.

1 Star Rating: Poor

01/30/11

AWWWFFFFUUUULLLLL

by John from the Westside

AWWWWWFFFFFFUUUUUULLLLLLL!!!!

Sunday afternoon, not very busy -- not hard to mess up, right? WRONG! When the waiter FINALLY comes around (didn't see him for the first 10 minutes we were sitting there) I asked for a cup of chili and a PLAIN bacon cheeseburger, with nothing on it and one request: crisp bacon. The chili comes right away and it was horrible -- Hormel would have been better.

Then we wait for our main food, and we see it come up and the "waiter" (I believe he was the manager, being cheap and saving on hiring an extra waitress) is busy talking on his cell phone. He then starts to try to prep the food while talking on the cell phone. He finally finishes and brings the food and walks away (very gruff). I open my burger and it has THE WORKS on it. I try to catch his attention, but he's back on the phone. I finally bring the plate UP to the counter and wait while he continues to talk on the phone for another minute or two. He hangs up and by now I'm fuming and begin to complain. He puts his hand in my face. "There is no need to yell! I am a human being!" he chastises me (I was annoyed, but not yelling).

I explain things and I wait (as my wife eats HER food) for another try at it. He's still off and on the phone and then brings me the replacement and it has pickles, tomatoes and lettuce on it! And the bacon -- not very cooked at all -- not even NEAR crisp. (And the burger tasted very funky.)

When he comes to see how things are and I point out the mistake again he begins to get irate again. I point out that if he wasn't on his phone he might have been able to check the order -- EITHER time. He yells that he has business to do!

Un-freaking-believable! I've lived on the Westside for a long time and heard good things about this place, so I went in expecting good things! BOY was I given something else!

This was my one AND ONLY trip to Dolores! AVOID IT LIKE THE PLAGUE... which might be in the food! (I had to put ONE star because they wouldn't allow ZERO -- and they didn't have negative stars!)

1 Star Rating: Poor

09/27/10

Dissapointed

by bruce1

While visiting my sister I suggested we visit Dolores. We couldn't believe it was still there. When we got there we discussed with the waiter how we used to frequent Dolores many years ago, and remembered the secret sauce they put on burgers and the suzie-q's were the greatest french fries. He told us the susie-q's were now different. We then ordered and were so surprised when we received our meal. The burger did not have the secret sauce on it rather it had an off the shelf thousand island dressing. The advertisement is misleading. It is time for Dolores to say what they sell currently. To say the least we were very dissapointed.

5 Star Rating: Highly Recommended

08/30/10

Best Place to Meet in WLA

by LKLaura

As part of a professionals group, we've meeting here every week for the past year. After the first couple of weeks, the restaurant has been consistently getting high marks from all of us. We have never had a complaint about our food, service is fast and friendly, also, PARKING, parking folks, parking, free for customers. The room in the back where we meet holds about 60 and has just recently been remodeled. Highly reccomended A+

5 Star Rating: Highly Recommended

08/23/10

Heavenly Bread Pudding!!

by Linda B99

I was across the courthouse paying a ticket and wanted a little treat afterwards. Dolores is right on the corner of Purdue and Santa Monica which is where the courthouse is also. I walked in looking for somthing fast and sweet, and the server suggessted the homemade bread pudding...OMG. You should try.

The Details on Dolores

Place Categories:

  • disappointing experience
  • recommend place
  • nice service nice management
  • worst food
  • decent breakfast food
  • nice backroom
  • not bad remodeling
  • not bad dolores restaurant
  • unpleasant new attitude
  • excellent service
  • great effort
  • yummy breakfast potatoes
  • tasty egg benedict
  • enjoyable look
  • clean fork
  • just plain nasty management
  • unpleasant vibe
  • of liked old dolores
  • just plain nasty employees
  • really good omlettes
  • good new decor
  • overpriced horribly
  • big changers
  • enjoy meal
  • reasonable cost
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