Art Walk Opening Doors for Diners

I’m not impressed that fast food restaurants are opening later for gallery goers.

McDonalds are already open late. Same thing.

I love The Great Steak, and now I love The Art Walk for getting Great Steak to stay open late, even if it is for every second Thursday of the month. Good food, great prices, very good baked potatoes, and the manager is a really cool guy. Try their wings and Chili it’s the bomb.

I tend to avoid McDonald’s personally so having real options for quick food late evening at Art Walk is handy. I went to Falafel Express last night and there was a good group of folks dining and I had a good late night dinner that was pretty healthy and delicious.

Yo Your parking really sucks Robert

Just kidding. There is plenty of parking the in structure underneath!!!! The food is great!!!!!

This is Los Angeles and we “aspire” to the lowest common denominator of dining.

Pathetic.

Who’s “aspiring” to the lowest common denominator? LA?

Are you flipping kidding me? This is the town that INVENTED Wolfgang Puck and the concept of the celebrity chef! Certainly no shortage of aspirational chefs and restauranteurs around these parts, pally. Check your history.

Just because a restaurant is lower priced, does that automatically mean you have to tear it a new one? Does one posting on one website suddenly turn Los Angeles into a town of shrinking violets, content to shovel corporate-manufactured gruel into their mouths without a care or question?

NO, I say! We are a foodie town! We are not satisfied with McFood! Yes, there is a robust market for hamburgers, and chili dogs, and all manner of noble, cheap, workaday foodstuffs. But that does not mean that we, as eaters, reject the gustatory delights of the innovators, the artistes of the kitchen, and those who enjoy the more refined pleasures! How dare you mock the citizens of this great metropolis! I challenge thee to a duel!

Oh come on, Scott. You know that LA wishes it could have the gastronomic clout that SF does. Yes, there is good food to be had in Los Angeles and a lot of it…but Downtown’s restaurant-scape has much to be desired, in both quality and operating hours. Ever get hungry downtown on a Sunday night? Not much out there, is there? (And no, I’m not a fan of any of those Old Bank restaurants.) When was the last time you tried to get good bread and pastries – like French or Italian style, not pan dulce? There is good expensive food downtown and a sea of mediocre mod-priced restaurants, most of them closing way too early. I think the fact that Downtown News writes an enthusiastic article about the opening of a 7-11 sums it up. I’m not sniffing at street food, but sorry, I would expect more to crow about for an art crowd than Steak-ums and wings.

I have to agree that the options in downtown are lacking to say the least. I am encouraged however of the bars/lounges/cafes popping up in the historic core.