La Scala — Restaurant in Santa Monica

Really had to change my review of 5 stars to this. I’ve gone to this la Scala for last 8 years. I’ve ordered a take out almost every week. No matter how long I would have to wait for Sandy to tell me “20 minutes..” The chopped chicken salad was our favorite and it felt really authentic. Last Friday 5/10/18 we came over and decided to dine in. My husband was parking so I asked to be seated while he was parking. The waiter told me that they had a rule of not seating until the whole party was there.. I was waiting for one person.. we sat down indoors and ordered wine and, of course, chopped chicken salad. There were a few flies that flies around and we tried to shoo those away as much as we could. Our wines came and we started sipping, then I noticed a dead fly in my husbands glass, we waived the waiter and he replaced the glass immediately and apologized. Then again another fly ventured into our bread and butter. We called the waiter, which at this stage said it was a weird scenario, and that he never seen something like this before. The place was either full of flies or, as the waiter might have suggested.. we attracted them? Finally the food is in and I am grossed out. We ate carefully. Paid full check and left....

Food was wonderful service was even better but don't go with a lot of people. We went last night, there were 7 of us our bill was around $200 and our card was declined. After being on the phone for 30 minutes with our credit card company who did not receive anything, it was discovered that their machine wouldn't accept a $200 charge, really embarrassing for us. They finally split the bill in half and it went through. Again excellent but don't try to pay a large bill as it won't be accepted. I asked if other cards were going through, I was told yes, ours was the only one, as we were leaving the manager said it was their machine and we weren't the only one. To add insult to injury we got our ticket validated and the parking attendant said we were over the time limit and wanted $9.80 more. Not that he had any way of knowing had we not had the aggravation, we would have been well under the time limit. One of our guests got out of the car and got the fee reduced but still...at that point we just wanted to get home, I guess we could have gone back and gotten it fixed. Yes the Cobb Salad was...

We fell on this place after our original choice was closed for lunch. We ordered spaghetti with meat sauce, meat sandwich, and chopped salad. The pasta looked like someone actually threw up on it, that is how unappetizing it looked. The salad was literally chopped lettuce with a few garbanzo beans, and the meat sandwich, we asked for no mushrooms, the sandwich came loaded with mushrooms, to cover up the chewy, low quality meat inside. The help was lovely. The cost of the above meal was just shy of $70- which included tip and two soft drinks. Unbelievably disappointing lunch, overpriced, we left hungry. DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY at this place. This is primarily a take out place, food was served in paper containers. This is NOT anywhere near the caliber of food that they serve at the LA SCALA in Beverly Hills. Probably one of the worst lunches I...