ADKT LA — Restaurant in Los Angeles

This is going to come off as a paid ad because I am over-the-moon about this restaurant. The overall atmosphere was beautiful, luxurious, and true to French style. The staff was extremely friendly, Mark (the GM) and the Michael (chef) even came over on several occasions to speak with us. As someone who is now gluten-free, it is extremely rare that I get to eat what my boyfriend eats when we go out to restaurants, so I was pleasantly surprised when I was told that all of their best courses were gluten-free (I’m not sure about celiac friendly). This was the most mouthwatering meal we’ve had in our whole year of living in downtown. Still dreaming about the steak. Completely worth the price & I will be coming back here. Try it while it’s still new before this becomes the most popular speakeasy in WEHO/BH area. My only warning is to hold off on the water unless you actually want a whole bottle as I wasn’t expecting it to be $12.

What we got—

Steak Tartare: wow. The flavor combo here was genius. I’m new to Tartare, so the concept still grosses me out but I couldn’t be bothered by it because the taste of the steak, radish, egg yolk, caviar, bone marrow was far too amazing. 10/10

Chateaubriand: if French onion soup was a steak, it would be this. We got perfect medium rates that cut like butter. I normally get full off an 8oz steak and this felt like a great portion for the price. I will dream about this steak for wayyy too long. My boyfriend even devoured the onions which is his least favorite food item. 12/10

Potato pave: I’ve never been a huge fan of this style but couldn’t stop eating theirs. 10/10

Potato frites: If you like more of a battered fry, this is for you. The truffles are also thickly cut. They weren’t for me but my boyfriend loved them, especially dipped in the steak sauce. 7/10

Chocolate mousse: super fluffy & chocolatey. Used some of the berries from the other dessert & that was WOW. 8/10 alone 10/10 with strawberries

Berry Variation: did not expect the texture but was soooo delicious. 10/10

Drinks—

Sakura: if blue raspberry was a drink—super tangy but sweet. Did not taste the alcohol, so I could probably drink half a dozen. So so good. 10/10

Penicillin: tasted like a slap in the face to me but my boyfriend claims it was...

Adkt is absolutely terrible when it came to the service. I went with my girlfriend and brother and we were thinking we were heading into a speakeasy for a couple drinks before getting dinner. It ended up being a club looking dinner venue. The waitress kept pressuring us to order dinner. We ordered a few items just to make the interaction less awkward as she kept crowding our table nonstop. The food was not great whatsoever. We ordered sweetbread and the red fin tuna and we all spent the whole night throwing up from the Tuna. The irony is their busing staff came and took the food midway while we were literally eating it. I told him we’re still working and he continued to ignore what I mentioned and took our food. I even mentioned it to the waitress and she completely ignored it. They said the chef was Michelin star. I’ve been to plenty of Michelin star restaurants and this one was absolutely horrendous if so. The icing on the cake of a bad meal, getting sick, the staff taking the meal before you can even eat it, was they’ll deliver you a check with multiple surcharges, turning $200 into $500 with hidden fees. I will never go back to this place. For a restaurant just opening, this is one that will fall on it’s face. I’m still annoyed that they charged us for food that they literally didn’t even let us eat, it’s appalling and you probably think I’m joking. I kid you not, the staff acted like they...

That whole loungy place with round stuff, wot's all that about? Proper confusing decor, none of it made a lick of sense, at all.

The food, mate? 😑 Good lord! I've honestly had more flavoursome bangers and mash on me nan's Sunday Roast. Fully mediocre, I must say, left a disgusting taste in me mouth.

Let's not even get started on the piss poor selection from that bar of theirs. Limited choices? That's an understatement. Practically felt like I was in a cheap booze shop at the end of High Street.❌

Naming it 'fine dining experience'? What a bloody laugh! 😡 Gives a proper new meaning to 'taking the piss', that one. More akin to a bleedin' club atmosphere, if you ask me. Nothing about that place screamed 'fine dining'. Felt more like some second-rate night club, it did, the only good thing about this place is the DJ.

And don't get me started on the outrageous waiting times for food. 😠 90 bloody minutes for a bit of nosh, it's like they had to go catch the chicken to cook me roast, it were. Absolute mockery of an experience that left me miserable as sin, mate.

Definitely won't be prancing back to that sloppy joint anytime soon, I tell ya. Even if someone decides to put a bloody gun to me head, I won't go back to that mess of a restaurant to get another dinner. 😒

Absolutely not worth it, mate. Completely chucked it,...