Dusty's
Silver Lake, CA 90026
Phone: (323) 906-1018
03/16/2008 Posted by therlp
Gawker once listed restaurants in Brooklyn with different types of terrible, holier-than-thou hipster service. If they reviewed LA, Dusty's would make it on their list. The particular hipster/waiter that served us this morning could not have been more disinterested if he tried. He was so hipster-indifferent, that it was kind of charming. I couldn't order tea because the restaurant did not have hot water. Disturbing? But ok, I can deal with that. The hipster/waiter actually appeared out of the blue the first time and dead-panned "do you want to order?" No hi, or what do you want to drink. This hipster/waiter was not one for small talk. Ostensibly, we did want to order, ordered and that was the last we saw of the hipster/waiter. He never checked in to see if we liked our food - we did, it was delicious - and he never cleared our plates when we were done eating. He was way too cool to be bothered with that.. The fact that he didn't even try made it somehow ok, though, because it was not like bad service that intended to be good service. That would be worse. We knew we were done with him and had no false expectations. Oh, wait, he did reappear once when the table next to us asked for Equal. Without making eye contact, he grabbed the Equal/Sugar/Sweet-n-Low holder off our table and gave it to our neighbors. But even that was funny and gave us an opportunity to talk to our neighbor who kind of looked like Ryan Phillipe. In short, the food is good, the service is what it is but does place you in the proximity of servers who are so cool they are almost tragic and the clientèle is really attractive/famous.
Pros: Food, really attractive clientele, great bread, proximity to really cool hipster/waiters
Cons: proximity to really cool hipster/waiters
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