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The Celebrity-Owned Restaurant Power Rankings
LA has plenty of famous people looking to capitalize on their face-name recognition, which means plenty of celebrity-backed restaurants. So before you spend $20 on guacamole, these are the famous-by-association restaurants that are worth your time.
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Drake's Hollywood
Drake's Hollywood is an Old Hollywood-themed clubstaurant in West Hollywood with few redeeming qualities.
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Caviar Kaspia
Caviar Kaspia is a gimmicky caviar-themed restaurant in West Hollywood designed for rich people who want to waste money.
Guide
The Celebrity-Owned Restaurant Power Rankings
LA has plenty of famous people looking to capitalize on their face-name recognition, which means plenty of celebrity-backed restaurants. So before you spend $20 on guacamole, these are the famous-by-association restaurants that are worth your time.
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Meteora
Meteora is an experimental fine dining spot that's a bad dream, jungle excursion, and frustrating dining experience rolled into one.
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Toca Madera
Toca Madera is a corporate Mexican restaurant in Beverly Grove with bland, expensive food.
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Beauty & Essex
Beauty & Essex is a random, very boring Hollywood clubstaurant that you don't need to prioritize.
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Barton G
Barton G is a gimmicky West Hollywood restaurant with tacky tableside displays and absolutely terrible food.
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Hyde Sunset
Hyde was once the most exclusive club in Hollywood, but its heyday is long, long gone.
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Doheny Room
Doheny is an empty, sad clubstaurant in West Hollywood with bad food and weak drinks.
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The Hideaway
The Hideaway in Beverly Hills is a cheesy cantina that's most useful to tourists with kids.
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Craig’s
Craig’s is one of the most celebrity-packed restaurants in LA - and also one of the most boring.
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PUMP Restaurant
Pump is one of the dullest, most meaningless restaurants in all of West Hollywood.
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Avra
Avra is an over-priced Greek restaurant that only wishes it could be like the other great restaurants in Beverly Hills.
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Laurel Hardware
Laurel Hardware has a sleek interior hidden from the public eye, a menu chock full of things that white girls recognize, and a crowd that’s somehow even more gorgeous than its surroundings. What more could you want? For starters, fully cooked food and a waitress who will return to the table at some point.
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Lavo Ristorante
Lavo Ristorante is a big, boring Italian restaurant on the Sunset Strip filled with lost tourists and very mediocre food.
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The Polo Lounge
The Polo Lounge seems like one of those classic Old Hollywood spots, but the food and the scene are awful. There are better places for star sightings.
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Pink’s Hot Dogs
Every city has a Pink’s - a tourist-mobbed “classic” that’s actually not very good. Let’s discuss.
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The Griddle Cafe
The Griddle is a sham. It’s a crowded, disgusting tourist trap still cooking food like we’re deprived adolescents left alone in a gumball factory.
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Sora
Sora is a new conveyor belt sushi joint inside the Wilshire Grand downtown with grocery store quality sushi and sky-high prices.