people that YELP are scumbags

where the hell do you live

Great Patio, good apps....nice wait staff....snooty host

I am rating this solely as a afternoon summer watering hole.

Had the olive plate and the bread was fantastic, topped with carmelized onions and roasted garlic.

The mojitos were crisp and refreshing and the stella although not on tap is always nice on a sunny afternoon.

I would have gave this place four stars but the host/floor manager/ resdient hag was an absolute bitch. Slow to seat us, snooty about which sections of the patio were open....and nothing when we walked past her on the way out...She was almost bitchy enough to ruin a wonderful afternoon....but I am not going to let one twatwaffle ruin a good drinking session....fer fucks sakes I was with my parents can I get a little goddamn service.

The steak was very well cooked. There were many snobby hipsters pretending they knew about wine and food. the timing on the courses was good. we ended up staying till closing. The parking lot is small and has holes so watch out.

i enjoyed this

matt p resides in slc iirc

lagoon otm, that is my favorite review on this thread so far

lol i was like "where is this hotbed of irrational neuroses"

The parking lot is small and has holes so watch out. The fun part about this place was listening to other people trying to impress their dates. lol

practical!

i mean i understand how a dining experience can be bad but, like, a level-1-adult skill is to be able to not throw a tantrum about trivial shit.

matt p resides in slc iirc

― lag∞n, Wednesday, January 4, 2012 1:23 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

palace of the brine

Their chefs are realy trigger happy with the black pepper grinder. As an adult I like more bold flavors; however, its typically not high on a kid's food top-10.

According to the waitress they absolutely don't use pepper in their food?!
According to the manager a couple of minutes later, Luce is known for its spicy food.... What is it?
I don't mind either way, but know what you sell and inform you clientele honestly.

All-in-all: mediocre food, inadequate service (turning to real bad when asked about the food), perhaps a 'cool' place for dinks and other trendsetters, but not for families.

"dinks"???

that guy is right about the holes in the parking lot fyi

dinks is like the funniest word

and other trendsetters

'cool dinks maybe'

cool place for these guys:

http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/94ae1cab1478146d104763e410a14ace/426213.jpg

'dinks and other trendsetters' is p amazing tbrr

Have we talked about the gazillion reviews that take this format:

"Reservations, check. Nice bottle of wine to share with good friends, check. Get to the restaurant on time, check. Delicious, inspired food from a chef that puts much care and effort into his craft, check. Awkward, scattered, uncoordinated service that negatively affected the meal, check. Waaaait, huh?!?"

check plz! right i mean

site:yelp.com "can you say"

really feel like some people are just really confused and unhappy in environments with a lot of stuff going on. people hate airports, they hate the freeway, idk, i'm like, just figure out what you need and be patient about getting it. i just don't understaaaand these people, you are turning whining into a hobby

i started reading the yelp thread for the place i used to work and now i am totally bummed out :/

can someone tell me more about the imprisoned yelper.

http://www.yelp.com/topic/new-york-blogger-in-taiwan-jailed-for-bad-restaurant-review

well there are a lot of 'hilarious' cryptoconservative yelp reviews for various prisons

The Taichung court that ultimately ruled on the case decided that Liu's review was libelous because it was written after just one dinner, and so was not well-informed enough for such harsh judgment. The decision is final.

judge otm, minimum three visits before reviewing, well known standard - take care yelpers

goole: "dink" = "double-income, no kids"

"not go back" and "piss and moan on yelp" are two different things. there's some kind of basic human law to not make a big deal out of "bad" service. i eat out all the time and i can't really remember any remarkably horrible service. some people must have wildly inflated expectations about what a dinner in a restaurant is supposed to be like, esp some kind of chain place. just be patient and enjoy your meal, shit.

I seriously envy that you've never had remarkably horrible service. There is an entire Boston chain that I will not go to because 8 times out of 10 I have had service that was horrible to the point where I would not be surprised if there was a corporate policy in place about minimizing the presence of black people in their establishments.

The only times I've had really terrible service was at Applebee's, but even then I felt it served me right for patronizing Applebee's.

And this was two separate times -- unfortunately my husband's family really LOVES Applebee's for whatever reason.

ive had terrible service from time to time, never yelpd tho

I think I told the story about the worst service experience I ever had before on here...

lol I should have just looked upthread

if people didn't have to tip then they couldn't complain about terrible service

*walks away whistling*

w/r/t service i think neil young said it best:

http://www.pollsb.com/photos/o/51753-11_you_give_new_radicals_1999.jpg
http://sites.google.com/site/nickdouglas/weirdneilyoung.png

beyond poor service reviews, there's an amazing anti-hipster slant to yelp which is almost like restaurant huac hearings, like they'll finger places as being hipster safehouses and use that as a strike against them, even when a place is basically a family restaurant and the people there wearing trucker hats are being achingly sincere in their fashion choice.

yes i have noticed that.

one of their ambiance categories is hipster!

like wtf that even mean

this place does not have a single hipster employee

The decor is the epitome of "hip". The vibe is a little more hipster than I prefer, but whatever. The food and beer was so delectable that I could ignore all the skinny faded black jeans and cooler-than-thou attitude oozing out of everyone.

The funny thing is that pretty much all of the employees could be accurately tagged "Hipster". And they were the ones who oozed with the 'tudes. They weren't nice, they weren't warm, they didn't smile, or even return a fake one if you asked them a question. Their demeanor (to everyone, not just us) was just cold.

the word 'hipster' appeared in like every second review for the place i worked and yeah... no. i partic liked being called a 'hipster waif' (i think, anyway i was working there at the time it was written anyway).

i think its part of what matts talking abt, the weird social positioning and self-consciousness of being 'into restaurants' or w/e makes ppl really defensive for no reason

i h8 how people dont even know wtf a hipster is

the world needs more hipster studies

Only because the douchery serving our over-priced beers cared not what tip he made, he's in volume sales.

Most of the food coming out of the kitchen looked great and the beers are alsome, and I would go back, but the staff there - two more of which were rude and pretentious - prevent me from returning.

It really does all come down to 'guest-interaction'. If your POS (point of sale) staff really treat you like a POS (piece of shite) then you will have to rely on the hipster-douche clientele luckily and readily available in in hip and douchey Echo Park.

had no idea whiney wrote for yelp

This place is the epitome of a hipster hang out. Everyone in here looks exactly the same (guys with skinny jeans, fake glasses, facial hair, ect.) The menu was small and I could only find 1 thing that I would want to eat. Also the bar is very small and you are not allowed to sit anywhere else unless you have a reservation. And good luck with parking. I will not be returning.

Service was fine, not stand out in any way. Clientele was as anticipated- douchey hipster heaven. Space was not nearly amazing enough to compensate for crap food, and was pretty generic and lacking in style anyway. (Glossy plywood just doesn't blow me away.) I was so sad that we went all that way and didn't get to eat at Elf next door, which is easily a bazillion times better.

Oh, and my martini tasted like cheap olives. As both my spouse and SInead O'Connor say, you MB fans have got a solid case of the emperor's new clothes. Only it isn't the man who's naked, it's the poor low-quality ingredients.

owned

haha jesus

yes it's like people performing being knowing and with-it on the internet are super paranoid that all the other ppl around them are doing the same performance much more successfully. except they see through it all!!!!

?

The boy is drawn to hipster-douche vegans. I think he secretly wants to be one but settles for making fun of them instead. (By "making fun of" I mean he stares/gawks at them while drinking beer, wide-eyed, our own friends included, and then goes out and has a smoke. Every damn time.)

Aww well. Not all the customers are but the servers most definitely are. Its sort of like a free love environment. I thought we were all gonna take a bath together...

anyway in true hipster fashion, we shared a Red Rocket amber ale and it was so delicious we were air high fiving while planning our next outing to a Fiest concert! So good!

As both my spouse and SInead O'Connor say <<slick line

Anyway, we passed the time by trying to speak quietly (and failing due to the ever-increasing noise level as the place filled up) and, when that failed, hipster-watching. Lots of flannel shirts, skinny jeans, man-bags, messy hair and 1950's style eye-glasses. I couldn't care less about experiencing the "urban bohemian" vibe or whatever; I just want good food and craft beer in a nice setting.

sitting in silence, watching hipsters