Chubby Curry — Restaurant in Beverly Hills

I want to start off by saying the wait was long but the hostess( the one who took our names down) was absolutely amazing. She gave us (very good) tea while we waited outside for a table. So while it was a long wait, I’d say it’s worth it.

I got the Stone Pot Waygu and my boyfriend got the Udon and curry fries. I’m only going to talk about the Stone Pot and fries. The fries were good, a little oily but it wasn’t something that coated the mouth. They clearly were very fresh.

The stone pot came out VERY hot. However the curry sauce comes in a small cast iron skillet. So this dish was tasty. I highly recommend waiting a few minutes for the rice on the bottom to crisp up and it creates a lot of extra dimension. The reason why this review lost a star was because while good, this dish had some things it needed to tie it together. One is the way the curry sauce comes. The tables in the restaurant are small and the skillet took up space, also spooning it out of that skillet was just pointless and wasteful. Easily fixed by giving a cup or small pitcher to just pour it instead of having to use the spoon. Two, it needed something else. I added a picture and what’s missing, at least for me, was green onions and sesame seeds or some furikake. While this seems more Japanese-inspired, I would be able to argue it would add if the toppings weren’t so random and green onions became a standard add-on. The dish was heavy and had no depth in terms of something to counter the wagyu, egg, and rice. Third, the patty was salty. This salt worked when everything was mixed together but trying to eat the patty by itself was overwhelming. I would have liked less salt and the option of soy sauce. Salt and soy sauce have different flavor profiles and it needed some umami to tie it together (the tomatoes and broccoli didn’t accomplish this for me). Forth, and this might be personal, there needs to be a spice option that’s not creamy. Creamy spices sauces take away pretty readily from a dish since it can just add another layer of fat.

Lastly, on the topic of food, stock needs to be either told before hand or essentials need to be restocked/ordered better. They didn’t tell us they were out of the duck curry until we sat down and they were out of a very popular bottled beer which shocked me for a Saturday night.

Lastly, on table turn over, I understand why the wait is more of a wait and this had to do with busy nights like this one…we were left sitting and waiting for a while after we had finished our food. Check was left for us and she didn’t come back for about 5 minutes. We also had to ask for them to bring it or we would have just awkwardly sat there, like many other tables did. This is a small complaint because I’m sure staffing has to do with that but to spite that the waiters were attentive and fast when called.

We will be back! Definitely a spot I might pick more...

Here to say that I watched the whole thing unfold when a pretentious customer bullied the staff and chef for their order taking too long as I was eating. He was threatening to enter the kitchen and needed the authorities called on him and his friend he brought in and they refused to move from the bar area. Disrupting guest’s meals even as they were asked to move. It was unfathomable to me that the customer was not even coherent or considerate enough to think of his impact on other people enjoying their meal and selfishly only thought about his self serving nature because he was hangry. I think some guests are way entitled and expecting things to provided and given to them. You’re coming at lunch hour on a weekend, your to-go order may take longer than normal. That’s to be expected. No need to take it out on the staff. I’m unsure of what this customer will say but the Server acted appropriately and attempted to ask them to move or have their order cancelled and he kept demanding for his food now at the Chef while he was trying to work on the queue. I’m just here to say all the staff were working really hard, as I sat in the back and never saw them pause. Either way I felt it was absolutely unnecessary for that guest to act the way that they did. So just wanted to share that point of view if they decide to write a nasty review.

The food was delicious, and the atmosphere was nice till the guest had arrived. I would recommend this restaurant, the quality is great, and it looks as if they have an all you can eat wagyu option on...

The TL;DR is Chubby Curry a good place to visit for lunch and/or dinner. In terms of the Los Angeles area, this is currently the only curry restaurant I know to use dark cocoa as an ingredient in their curry.

I have to type this paragraph first so people do not get the wrong interpretation about why I'm giving 4 stars overall instead of 5. My 4 star rating is equivalent to a 5 star rating because I know what I want from Japanese curry.I leave the 5th star for other stuff that goes beyond the eating the food. I have experience with Japanese curry and cooking it with my own spin on the recipe which influences my rating.

Chubby Curry is a new curry restaurant in Los Angeles specializing in Japanese curry. I ordered a Chubby Curry and Chicken Cutlet during my visit. For the Chubby Curry, the curry comes in a small cast iron dish. The bigger bowl has the rice, pickled ginger and charred broccoli.

I type this review as I eat my to-go order at home I bought on 12/22 as part of first visit dining in and along with the curry from Tokyo Central made to-go as a comparison. Unlike the sweet curry from Tokyo Central. The cocoa in the Chubby Curry dish gives the curry a more complex flavor working well with the mild spicy hints of the Chubby Curry.

I will say this is a place to go eat lunch...