Fig & Olive

[DALI]

Thinking about going here has anyone been?

[DALI]

i take it no one cares about this place? i was reading on yelp last night and saw a lot of mixed reviews about the place. just wondering if i am going to waste my money and time going here.

[Pilori]

I'm curious about the place and have driven by it a couple of times. Looks pretty large. Please report back if you end up going!

Edited March 30, 2011 by Pilori (log)

[DALI]

Wow is all I have to say. Wow. This place is amazing. For the prices they charge here you would think you were eating in a real restaurant not some trendy hot spot charging top dollar for food and drink and serving shit. The food there is straight garbage. Who the hell can justify the pricing at this place. We started off with the crostini and let me say we had the six diffrent tastings that were the chefs choice. The chef needs to maybe have someone else taste his food before putting it on the menu. Bland,no seasoning sloppy plating and memo to the chef it's not easy at all to eat this trash. We also had the marinade tasting. The carrots were real good but a little cold. The artichoke was way to sweet and bland. Lay off the balsamic. Roasted peppers were way over cooked and looked like shit. Anyone here ever had a roasted pepper. The fennel was good also but way to cold. Almost frozen. As for the mains there were 6 of us so we had the honor to try about half of them. Salmon good, lamb ok but plated like shit. Filet grilled meat with herb butter, chicken good but that sauce they poured over it kinda ruined it a bit. Branzino ok but plated again like it's 1986. Penne pasta ok tasted the same as the chicken sauce weirdly enough. And a fig and olive salad. Next time see if you can put more things into a salad. Would have tasted better had someone learned along the way that less is more and I don't mean in size.

To sum it all up. In 1986 this restaurant would have been good maybe. However this is LA there is a meddertirian restaurant on every corner. This one is the most over priced and poorly executed restaurant I have been to for this price point. If you have several restaurants already doing this same concept why are you so poorly executing. However the service here although not great was ok. Chef get it together this is LA not some shit hole town where you think you can do what ever you want.