Double Take — Restaurant in Los Angeles

Double Take is a restaurant in the Kimpton Palomar hotel. We’re fans of the Kimpton brand having stayed at a number of their hotels all over the U.S. They’re a great boutique hotel chain with benefits you get used to, such as the complimentary wine hour at 5pm. We were here for brunch, far too early to take advantage of the free wine hour, but to be fair we didn’t realize when we picked the restaurant that it was located in a Kimpton…so walking in to the lobby was a pleasant and familiar surprise.

I had the egg sandwich choosing biscuit for the bread, with white cheddar cheese and no the sausage. It came with hash browns and a salad. The biscuit was perfectly crunchy on the outside and fine on the inside but seemed like it may have been reheated. (Am I the only one who has a sixth sense for when biscuits have been reheated?) It tasted good but the cheese needed more of a presence.

The hash browns looked great. You’ll definitely salivate looking at them…They were tasty on the inside though, perhaps, a little more greasy than I wanted. There also wasn’t salt and pepper at the table which I definitely needed for these..

My wife had the Grain Bowl which we had to send back as it came topped with parmesan cheese…my wife doesn’t eat dairy and the menu didn’t list parmesan as an ingredient. I’m a big fan of menus that list all the visible ingredients of a dish…so unfortunately we had to send it back to get them to redo it without it. The dish looked beautiful either way, the mushrooms were delicious, but in the end it was very barley heavy…the other ingredients needed more of a presence to add more flavor to this dish.

It definitely wasn’t busy when we were there so i guess brunch, at least on a Saturday around noon isn’t so much of a thing…but they did only have one person working there handling the coffee counter and waiting tables so service, in particular when we had to alert them about the Grain Bowl was a bit slow.

On the plus side there’s all kinds of fun games to play in adjacent rooms, including a full sized pool table and skeeball, that are all free to use, so you’re bound to have a good time when...

I gave it two stars because the man who took my order was nice, even if he forgot to order my salad. The food was horrific. We had the bruschetta and the bread was so soggy that oil was dripping off of it and all over our hands , the Brussels sprouts were decent but cold and seemed to have sat for a few hours, and the New York steaks were super tough and the only flavor you tasted was salt. Cut some up for our dog, but she wouldn’t eat it, not even joking. I also asked for creamy horseradish sauce for the steaks and instead of horseradish and sour cream, it was horseradish and mayo! I almost threw up right on the spot after putting it on my steak, lol. So bad. Hotel is nice and I love that I can bring my dog but I would never eat at the...

The decor is nice, service was good (hard to come by in WW), and food/drinks were delivered at a good pace. The drinks seemed to be subtle takes on standards. The 'Call me snake' is pretty much an old fashion, same with others. Nothing remember or special. Wine list and alcohol were a pretty good selection. Food was all good but, again, nothing remarkable or memorable. Over priced for what it is, by a fair bit. Also, be careful about your water selection. They did not make it remotely clear we were getting a $9 bottled flat water. Seemed like your average Flat water or Sparking...