Posts Tagged GastroPub

The Lab Gastropub

  • Overall Experience: 5
  • Food: 6
  • Service: 5
  • Atmosphere: 6
  • $/Person: $10-15

Nestled in next to the Radisson Hotel across from the USC campus, the Lab pretentiously pretends to be a higher-end dining experience than it really is, which they must think gives them the justification of marginally overcharging for every dish. The atmosphere is semi-interesting but somewhat sparse, with menus placed on clipboards and pictures of [...]

  • The Lab Gastropub
  • 3500 Figueroa St, Los Angeles, CA 90007
  • (213) 743-1843

The Village Idiot

  • Overall Experience: 8
  • Food: 7
  • Service: 7
  • Atmosphere: 9
  • $/Person: $20-30

Right smack in the middle of the biggest “village” in America (Los Angeles), lies a restaurant that serves old English pub style food and well priced pints of beer. The owner of this restaurant is far from an idiot. In fact, trying to understand where the “idiot” fits into any part of this restaurant is [...]

  • The Village Idiot
  • 7383 Melrose Ave Los Angeles, CA 90046-7526
  • (323) 655-3331