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Pink Elephant Liquors
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Category: Beer, Wine & Spirits [Edit]
Neighborhood: Hollywood1836 N Western Ave
Los Angeles, CA 90027
(323) 462-0060
16 reviews for Pink Elephant Liquors
Me: "Ummm hi I'd like to order a sandwich and fries. How long will that take?"
PE: "15 minutes"
Me (an hour and a half later): "Ummmm hi, I made an order over an hour ago, where the &*$% is my sandwich?!" I was nice of course but c'mon how long does it take to slap some meat on a piece of bread and drive it 3 blocks?
PE: "Delivery guy is right around the corner, he'll be there in 5 minutes."
Without fail, the delivery guy magically showed up 5 minutes later, ALWAYS. Didn't matter if I called a half hour, hour, or two hours after ordering, he showed up minutes after calling. I must be a glutton for punishment because I kept ordering from them. But they deliver alcohol, and cigarettes, and mediocre food.
I haven't ordered from them in years though, your experience may vary.
I went to Pink Elephant today for the first time in a long time, and now I remember why I didn't like it in the first place: $8 for a six-pack of PBR...yikes!
There are a lot of places to buy booze in East Hollywood, many of them with much better prices than the Elephant. Drive a couple blocks south to the Food4Less, where a 12-pack of PBR is $8. Don't want to put an entire quarter-mile on the odometer? There's a Ralph's about a block away, and Hollywood Blvd. is littered with small liquor stores if you don't want to deal with supermarket lines and bullshit.
$24 for a bottle of Sauza and they forgot our mixer. Had it not been 10pm and me with a houseful of people, there would have been no way I'd of patronized these guys.
They were fast, but then I live about a block away, so no points there.
This is where
...Charles Bukowski got his liquor and smokes when he lived on Mariposa.
...I got my liquor and smokes when I lived on Mariposa.
...a suitcase full of human body parts was found in December of '07.
Basically, they make Pink Dot look like simpering, clown-car driving pansies.
In town for the weekend, head down here and start loading up on Tecate and Zigzags.
Shady teenage lookin-dude slinks around the wine rack to where I'm picking out my 22s.
STLD: Buy me a 40.
Me: ....
STLD: Dude, buy me a 40.
Me: What? You talking to me?
STLD: Come on, just buy me a 40, man. ::tries to hand me $2, which doesn't quite buy a 40, STLD::
Me: What the... No, no, get out of here. I don't know you.
STLD: ::irked:: What, you scared? Come on!
Me: NO FORTYS FOR SHADY SHORTYS!!
That, and the attention from the nice Asian lady behind the counter, got rid of my friend -- but only from the store. Exiting the establishment, brown paper in hand, I bumped into him again, at which time he made the point of following me all the way back to Western.
The next day, when I had my camera stolen from under me as I read the LA Times (true story), I immediately blamed him.
Wow, these reviews for the Pink Elephant are rockin!
Well look out PE, cuz I have 2 more cents for ya....
I will preface this review with the fact that I haven't used them in a couple of years, mainly because I moved, but more so because they really do suck the big one. I can't remember how many times, I'd order from them and be sitting there, with a house full of people waiting for the party juice to arrive only to be pissed and annoyed when and IF they ever showed up.
Oh yeah, I said IF. There was one Friday night where they just never even bothered to show. Another time they called me screaming at me that I wasted their driver's time because HE wrote my address down wrong. So ridiculous and as you can see, customer service is their definite strong suit.
For my money, patience and party juice refills, I say go for Yummy or Pink Dot. They are nice, fast and no rude 'tude!
I have waited over 3 hours for them to deliver, and I live 4 blocks from there! And everything they have can be cooked in under 15 minutes!
I've never had a worse chef salad. I have no clue why I still order the breakfast burito, because something in it always has this faint taste that is something like freezerburn combined with pine-sol.
This place gets My business only because the deliver food really late at night, because I often forget I need to eat before 10 p.m.
WARNING...TURN YOUR VOLUME OFF ON YOUR COMPUTER BEFORE INTERING THER WEBSITE. IT HAS BAD MIDI MUSIC PLAYING LOUDLY ON EVERY PAGE!!!
A pit stop on the "Bukowski" tour, Pink Elephant Liquors was OK, I guess. It's a liquor store with snacks. Chuck would buy his booze and cigs here back in the day so I honored him by doing the same.
I'm a Bukowski! You're a Bukowski!
This is the first and last experience I will ever have ordering delivery from this place. It blew. I think I'm even being generous for giving the Pink Elephant one full star (half a star's not an option dammit).
The Pink Elephant is one of those famed spots from Swingers where Mikey and the gang would order stuff as they would play hockey on the Sega before heading out on the town. For novelty's sake, my friend and I decided to order stuff here before she moved out of her place on Los Feliz. The idea of ordering Parliaments and having them delivered to us was almost like Christmas. Almost.
My friend called with our list of items. Half of the things they didn't have. No Parliaments. No Chicklets. They didn't even have BBQ potato chips. They didn't even have Pabst. What the H-E-double hockey sticks?!!
Ignoring better judgment, we still placed our order. The delivery dude came by with the goods and a little more. He left his icky body odor stench. It was just lingering around the doorway for about an hour. Ew.
We're not drinkers, so we have no use for a liquor delivery service. But when we've had a late night at work and we just can't even muster the energy to, say, microwave black beans and steam broccoli, Pink Elephant is our culinary savior.
The french fries are perfect, provided you're a fan of wide steak fries. (We are.) The veggie burger isn't overly greasy and has a nice array of crisp fresh veggies atop, providing an overall yummy taste. The hummus is good (although the flatbread is not; better to stock your own.) We stay away from the sandwiches, which don't seem to be as good, and the pizza, which isn't particularly pizza-y.
Pink Elephant fits the bill for our vegetarian fast-food needs. And by fast food, we mean burger/fries, not "fast," as delivery can be slow. Sometimes we'll actually walk to pick it up ourselves. Blame it on fry anticipation.
I've not had their delivery --
The food service is slow and they're not always the friendliest crop of folks but they are the best/only deli (non-Ralph's) in this area and for a pop-in liquor joint their selection is great. I do like to pop in for a sandwich. It's good for that.
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Upon first use of the Pink Elephant service, I found nothing wrong.
Upon reading the reviews of this place, It was with more than a little trepidation that I ordered a 12-pack from the PE. I asked the nice Korean lady over the phone how long it might take to deliver my beer the mile that I was away from her. She said that it would take but a few minutes. I figures I would take her word this time. The delivery guy arrived in 15 minutes or so (.99 delivery charge) and the beer was still very cold. All things taken into account, I give it a big thumbs-up.
Stars because they deliver alcohol and the prices are reasonable. The food, on the other hand... well either be drunk when you order, or order lots to drink and slam it down before eating! Not trying to be mean- drunk food has it's place in the world order, and even better when it comes from the place delivering your alcohol! The pizza- okay. Better when plastered, and get extra sauce as it's nonexistant (or is that a good thing?). The ribs- a little better but have an odd smell. But you can order them reasonably sober and not be pissed haha. The chicken- and I say chicken in general as it ranges from the wings to the sandwich to the chicken on a salad- smells funny and is "okay" if you don't smell it. Hee. Finally, the nachos. I can bitch all I want about them (the guacamole on it is NEON green, but good in an interesting way- especially when shitcanned) but the more I have to drink- the more I am drawn to them. That is good and bad. Heh.
I've never ordered prepared food from this place - I didn't even know they offered it. But for having beer and cigarettes delivered, it's great. I've never been inside the actual store, either - I just call them for delivery. For that, they are pretty good.
Not impressed with their food or their delivery people (one grumpy man in particular!)...but! i am impressed with the fact that when i had a craving for a few pieces of beef jerky at 10p on a stormy nite.....They said, YES! that alone gets them 3 stars :p
ehhh food was meh, but DANG it took FOR-FREAKIN-EVER for them to deliver it! like over an hour! and for mediocre lasagna and a calzone...and on top of that, one of the other dishes we ordered had a HAIR IN IT!! GAAHHH!! i dunno if it was pubey or long, but either way A HAIR! and i think they gave my BF the explosive diarrhea hahaha...so yeah, maybe the liquor and other prepackaged stuff is ok...but MEH on the food, and BOO on the preparation and delivery
