- Overall 2
- Food 1
- Service 4
- Ambience 2
It’s a mixed feeling of dining experience. The location is very familiar to us as we used to dine here and celebrated my birthday at the private dining room here ten years ago when it was the one Michelin-starred Hatfield’s. As soon as you walk in you see the rainforest design and decoration which kinda gives me sign of overhyping social media themed restaurant feeling and later proves to be true. Don’t get me wrong, there are other great restaurants with awesome design and decoration as well in L.A. like the two Michelin-starred Vespertine. We got here about twenty
minutes earlier and yet have to wait till the exact timing for our table which is 9pm the not so busy hour and considering the restaurant is running at seventy percent capacity on a Friday night. We were guided to a small and very causal section right next to the bar called indoor dining area and I didn’t know the difference between indoor dining area and main dining area, but trust me pick the main dining area if you ever come here. So we waited another thirty minutes for main dining room table and total of one hour waiting already. Service is quite good but it feels like the restaurant is understaffed, there are only four or five servers serving all tables in both main dining room and the small indoor dining room. The food is overall very disappointing. Chef is trying to make food looks nice but actually in most cases they do not look good at all. Most dishes are too salty and salt is cheap. Chef is trying to use different ingredients balance out the flavor in most dishes but that creates confusion and just overall bad flavor in most dishes for example serving burnt yam and ask you to eat just the tiny bit of yam wrapped in all dark burnt ashes which are extremely toxic to human body and serving sea bass in a burnt jalapeño almost as he was trying to hide the poor flavored fish. Overall, this restaurant is extremely overrated given Michelin one star, overhyped with decoration, but good for casual date.
