Categories:
French,
American (New)
Listed in: Top Restaurants, Gastronomy
Listed in: Gastronomy
Category:
American (New)
Neighborhood: Union Square
Listed in: Gastronomy
Category:
Vietnamese
Neighborhood: Financial District
Listed in: Lunch in the FiDi
Categories:
Coffee & Tea,
Sandwiches
Neighborhood: SOMA
Listed in: Lunch in the FiDi
Category:
Hotels
Neighborhood: Hollywood
I can see why this hotel is getting horrible reviews.
It's clearly a hotel meant for 25 and under... it's a great place for you to stay if you're going to party all night long.
We were on the 8th floor, but could hear voices and music/bass all through the night. The lobby turns into a lounge of some sort with "beautiful" people wearing dresses two sizes too small and their boobs falling out everywhere. Well, hey, I guess it's LA?
The rooms were nice and modern, but they have some noise issues even in the rooms! There was this loud noise everytime we flushed the toilet... it sounded like a big loud fart. No kidding. So whenever you flush, it sounds like you're letting it rip. Excellent.
Then there's the airconditioning. I guess it was trying to self adjust the temperature, so it would turn on and off occasionally. Everytime it turned off, there was this loud BANG! Like, wtf. This is not normal!!
Needless to say, we will never stay here again. We only stayed here due to its proximity to Hollywood Palladium.
Oh, and don't park valet, it's $35/night, when you can walk 20 feet, and across the street there's overnight parking for $10/night.
Categories:
American (New),
Seafood,
Asian Fusion
Neighborhood: Mid Wilshire
Listed in: Top Restaurants, Gastronomy
Category:
American (New)
Neighborhood: Fisherman's Wharf
Listed in: Gastronomy
Category:
Italian
Neighborhood: Nob Hill
Listed in: Gastronomy
Category:
American (New)
Neighborhoods: North Beach/Telegraph Hill, Financial District
Listed in: Top Restaurants, Gastronomy
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The food was SO extraordinary, SO delicious, I can not believe those chefs can do such things to ordinary ingredients.
We came to FL, with the DH already rating it at a measly "3 stars":
-1 star for the impossible online reservations and the crazy 30 minute ordeal of 4-telephones-calling-at-once to get through to Reservations;
-1 star for the "men must wear jackets" requirement (he hates dressing up)
But when we arrived, everything changed.
The DH absolutely cannot stand oysters. He thinks they taste like boogers (clearly I did not ask why he knows what boogers taste like), and yet he took the plunge, and ate it. It was so good, he licked his bowl clean!
I cannot say enough about everything on their menu. There is always at least one dish that I dislike on tasting menus. Not here. I absolutely loved EVERYTHING. Even the extra $100 you have to spend for the beef is worth it. SO SO good.
The servers here were SO awesome. So sweet and personable; definitely not what I expected from French Laundry. We ended up chatting with our table manager and our server about the most random things. They told us that Keller had actually been there that morning, but wasn't sure if he was still around, but if he was, they'd try to get him to sign a cookbook that we were going to buy. And they followed through! Signed cookbook on the spot!! I couldn't be happier =)
Other nice touches:
- we had personalized menus, congratulating us on our 1st anniversary
- all the servers, even the hostess that we did not see when we entered the restaurant, wished us a happy anniversary on our way out (how did she know who we were?)
Finally:
My DH shocked me by telling me at the end of the night, "I have a man-crush on Thomas Keller." Awwwww~