Emle's Restaurant — Restaurant in Los Angeles

EMIE'S RESTAURANT, a busy eatery, is well-known for it's breakfast menu. We went in the evening to try their Mediterranean, conventional/vegan menu. This is a comfortable eatery with bench seating and well separated tables. The decoration is Middle Eastern, with rock covered walls and plaster murals.

Emle's food is light, not oily, salty, or saucy. Our server, Omer, did an excellent job explaining each dish.

As an appetizer, we ordered the breaded and fried portobello mushrooms. It is served with a lovely garlic sauce. All four of us enjoy this vegan specialty.

I found the vegan vegetable plate to be ample and satisfying. The house-made pita, served with the plate, is delicious.

The other guests also enjoyed their meals, however, one guest found the lobster risotto a little rich.

One caution: the toasted bread slices served with the meal are vegan, however, the dip cantains cheese and is not vegan. There are no vegan desserts on the menu.

UPDATE: Sam, the new owner, has polished the menu. Not a lot was changed. There's a new chef. Our meals tasted a smidgen better. Sam stopped at our table to make sure everything was fine. It was. We have returned several times since this review was first published. Emie's new chef and Sam have never disappointed.

STUFF: Both patio and restaurant seating are available. Parking, including wheelchair parking, is free and easy. Everything else, including the neutral-gender bathroom, is wheelchair accessible.

Emle's is near California State University. Students and faculty with ID cards, are offered a 10% discount. On Sunday, Monday, and Thursday alcohol drinks...

I live in NC. I am visiting my folks here and I looked up top 10 breakfast places near me and Emle’s was highly rated. We arrived to a packed dining room for breakfast and were surprised by the vast menu. Everything looked delicious. We had a hard time choosing. We decided on the stuffed French toast, Greek omelette and breakfast burrito. Everything was delicious! We said to each other, “we will be back!” This is a hidden local gem 💎, that you should discover for yourself!

Update: we have been back 2 more times! Dinner and lunch! We met Sam at dinner, We introduced ourselves and had a lovely chat with him. Our food was delicious. We enjoyed Shrimp with risotto, Tiger shrimp pizza, lemon caper chicken and a steak sandwich.

We returned a few days later for lunch and were greeted by Sam who called us all by name! Impressive! Sal was our waiter. He was very friendly as well! We enjoyed the procutto and fig pizza topped with arugula (at my request!), the Greek omelette and eggs Benedict. All outstanding! The banana bread was delicious. We wanted to buy some for the team of nurses at Northridge ACUTE rehab center, but they didn’t have enough to sell us a loaf. Minutes later, Sal came out with a large loaf insisting we take it to the care givers!!!! They enjoyed that so much. We made them aware of Sal and Emle’s kindness in donating that to...

I just ordered the “elme’s egg croissant sandwich” and chose to have a side a fruit which I could unfortunately tell that the knife they used to cut the fruit was also used to cut the onions. I like my fruit to taste like fruit, thank you very much.

Then as I was going to enjoy “the great waff” that I also got, i noticed something immediately.. -no whip -a PINCH of powdered sugar -HOLES???? For a $13 waffle, you’d think they’d try harder. FOR A $50+ FOOD ORDER YOU WOULD THINK THEY’D DO A DECENT JOB.

There was at most 3 customers sitting in that entire place and the owner just walking around so I know damn well they weren’t too busy to mess up A WAFFLE.

Save your money and go to iHop for actually decent food and pricing and save yourselves from these clowns 🤡

Edit (a couple hours after posting): I got a late night call from the actual owner which I find really strange because that means he took advantage of my number that I imputed into GrubHub to call me and say he was sorry about their second-best chef’s attempt at making my order. I appreciate the refund, but calling me personally felt incredibly invasive especially with a No Caller ID when this could’ve easily been done with a...