EAT — Restaurant in Los Angeles

Excellent food, Hollywood Atmosphere and Hollywood Service. The place can become boisterous, weekends especially, with limited seating available and limited waitstaff when the place is packed. Sometimes distracted, orders may need to be clarified, but the reality is this eatery has many tables outside and attending them all with the unpredictability of crowd surge can make staffing more than a chore. Unless you're a prince(ss), level-set them expectations with the Hollywood way of things: there will be snatches of chatter vying for dominance and there will be servers who would appreciate your patience that you may appreciate your food. Yes, EAT is a place to visit on repeat and indeed their locals are known by name and coffee order. Come often and see what the service is really like, friendly and accommodating, on point and nearer to a five than most places. Even when the order is fulfilled with some errant missing extra of your iced coffee comes to the table steamy hot and ice free, they're quick to correct and eager to resolve. But yeah, the service isn't why you go to EAT. As the name suggests, you go to this place to gorge oneself on decadence in the form or fluffy pancakes, tender waffles, and fantastic French toast, or eggs done a dozen different delicious ways, or bodacious burgers and stupendous Sammie's galore. Then there's the coffee, a stellar offering awaits with everything you'd expect from a typified coffee shop and more. Slower on weekdays, sometimes, the curbside tables offer sufficient space to bring a perfectly trained pooch or two along with you.

Devilishly delish - 4.666/5 stars 5⭐food 5⭐service 4⭐atmosphere 14/3 = 4.6667 Makes you wonder how places are getting numbers like 4.7, 4.8, and 4.9? That is why 5Stars on all marks is important and why I gave an extra star for food (6/5⭐), because places like EAT can surpass superlatives and should be held as a standard of how excellence is achieved. Service may falter but awareness of blunders and immediate solutions are better than mere luck. Atmosphere affected by location of several street side tables which afford the diner with people watching could be exactly what some people want - who am I to judge harshly for such a nuanced thing. Here's the extra star for food, too. ...

Our experience with this place was overall good, and I'm giving it a 4/5 because of the very warm, attentive and helpful service we got from all staff. The technicalities as such of the environment and a couple of oversights would grant it a rather 3.5. I'll explain:

The food: I had the Ned Benedict. I love Benny's and try a restaurant's benny to measure their breakfast creative initiative and skill, because it's not easy to get an eggs Benedict right. Mine was done beautifully. The english muffin was crispy and toasted just well underneath and none of the parts were soggy, which is hard to do as there is a lot of sauce and cheese involved..so that says that the chef knows and the service staff got it out just in time. Again, those factors are demonstrative of a restaurant well run. The potatoes on the side were creamy and hot. I thoroughly enjoyed it. The Frosted French toast: what I liked about this dish was that it was very creative and unique...who would've thought that frosted flakes and walnuts would go so well with french toast! plenty of fruits and just the right amount of soft and crispy in all the right places. I would describe tasting this dish as more fun than anything, because as a breakfast dish it triggers certain taste buds that are perhaps not awake yet! ;) The coffee was average. What was a bit disappointing was my cup had lipstick stains on it, but the waiter very swiftly replaced it. Environment: the only thing that I would suggest is to make sure where there are tables you're seating your guests at, make sure it's clean. Where we were sitting it was next to a plant but all around it were cob webs and dirt ....and that could've easily been spic and spanned in a minute...aside from these few suggestions we had a great...

The service was extremely attentive and above average in every way. The food was quite good but the pricing was just out of this world. A simple machaca breakfast with country potatoes costs over $25.

And they aren't even serving country potatoes, they serve scalloped. I don't know where they get their definition of country but it's not the well-known derivation.

It's an older building in a run-down part of town but has been polished up somewhere. It's definitely got a more Bohemian vibe.

I did appreciate the quality of the food and the excellence of the service but do not see the value present in either the quantity or quality in so far as the pricing is concerned.

Their pricing I'm sure is in line with what other restaurants are charging but the problem is that the quality and quality do not substantiate the price. The value is simply not there, to me, but keep in mind that is a subjective sentiment.

I hate to be that old guy telling people, "So, I tied an onion to my belt which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel. And in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on ‘em. ‘Give me five bees for a quarter,’ you’d say", but here we are. I just don't like the idea of paying after taxes and tip over $25 for a breakfast plate. But such are the times.

By all accounts if pricing is not an issue and you just need some good food, then I would really recommend this establishment. My friend had the blueberry pancakes with coffee butter and it was...