Netflix Bites — Restaurant in Los Angeles

Before I get into the magnitude of today’s gluttitude, or copious amounts of food that I simply destroyed today. Which after losing 116 lbs was a more than welcomed indulgence.

It was hot and sure today it would have been welcomed to have an indoor table however it wasn’t unbearable outside. Our server Sierra was incredibly accommodating, super friendly and always available. Her pleasant demeanor added to our overall experience.

As for the food, my wife and I chose multiple dishes because, why not? How often is this chance going to be available for us. For those of you who know me know that I used to work for barbecue hall of famer APL. So right off the bat I focused my attention on the Rodney Scott open face whole hog sandwich and I added a sunny side up egg. Barbecue is truly a labor of love and this sandwich conveyed that sentiment. Although being a big guy I wished it was bigger it was perfect with the richness of the yolk as the perfectly fried French fries.

My wife opted for the French Toast from Jacques Torres,

We also went with the unadvertised chef special from Ming Tsis, phyllo dough wrapped around oyster mushrooms and topped with another sunny side up egg. The yolk, phyllo dough and mushrooms melded together seamlessly.

Since this is a once in a lifetime event I also ordered the short rib pizza from Ann Kim. When it arrived the heavenly aroma of that pizza wafted up slowly, almost deliberately and I knew I was in for a treat. The crust had a great chew to it, I only wish the chili vinaigrette had a bit more spice.

My wife went with Tomato Pie from Ann Kim.

At the end of this outrageous food train was the chocolate box and bomboloni from famed chocolatier Jacques Torres. Now I am a huge chocolate fanatic and I have been for as long as I can remember. Each chocolate in the box has its own special notes and the bomboloni packed a cream filled punch. My favorite was the raspberry. It’s flavor was explosive and well worth...

I'll say this first to help out any prospective patrons - go here only if you hate yourself. A $150 tab could have gone so much further and better literally anywhere else.

I can only think of one thing this place is good for, and that's to take treat your mortal enemy to dinner here and then skip out on the bill. I could not have imagined a worse dining experience if I myself were hog tied and being roasted over an open flame with Satan's pitchfork. Did they decide the play the music so loud to distract us from all the shortcomings?

The service was incredibly memorable, but in the worst way possible. I don’t think that I’ve had a more frustrating dining experience in any recent memory. Our wine - not even cocktails, took forever. Ordering a drink at the beginning of the night seems pointlesswhen you get it 2/3 of theway through your meal.

What we did get however was a server constantly trying to bringus karage we did not order. I do wish on some occassion, he did bring the dungeness crab curry, though. Our visibly frustrated (and apologetic) server let us know that despite the fact that he put our order in at the same time as the table next to ours, ours would be delayed. So delayed, actually that they finished eating theirs before we even got ours.

As if to rub it in, we noticed that when the server brought the table next to ours their crab, they received aprons, seafood crackers, and an entire description of the dish and explanation as to how best to enjoy it. We received none of that - she dropped ours off with an "enjoy" and left, leaving us to have to ask our own server for crackers and how to "enjoy" it. The crab gets everywhere, by the way. I wish we'd been informed ahead of time to not dress up.

This experience was so low, I could have tripped over it. And in fact, I wish I had done so, outside of the restaurant, and avoided this night in...

Hostess was very pleasant. Unfortunately, cannot say the same about our server. Kind but wasn't trained enough. Long story short: extremely slow and inattentive service, overpriced and not just worth it. Brunch only menu in the morning (found out when we tried to order after 30 minutes of sitting there) We ordered the crab cake ($28-lots of crab-great), Lobster Chawan ($26- very interesting) Rodney’s Sando ($25-simple but good nothing special), French Toast ($18-a bit charred and tough-just don’t order) Pickle Pie ($25-definitely interesting flavor but 2/5 for a pizza). We also had a blueberry coffee cake and chocolate peanut butter cookie. Good but nothing over the top. Extremely hard to get your servers attention. They kept trying to take our plate when we clearly had a lot left-at least 30% of the plate. Expect to be there at least 2 hours. Heads up a 20% gratuity automatically added with no mention of it even at the end. All in all, the food was good but not great, some better others. Maybe our expectations were too high, but I don’t think I’ll buy most of these items even if they were half the price (maybe the sandwich). The ambiance was cute and very LA. The Green Grass Spritz ($22-only thing I would come back for) was extremely good! Best drink I’ve ever had extra star for that. Our check came out to be a couple hundred with a...