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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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Where to eat when the nihilism becomes too much to bear.
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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.
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The Celebrity-Owned Restaurant Power Rankings
Because star power can't save all of these spots.
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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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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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Beauty & Essex
Beauty & Essex is a random, very boring Hollywood clubstaurant that you don't need to prioritize.
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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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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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Aburiya Raku
The LA outpost of this off-the-strip Vegas favorite is overpriced, bland, and boring.
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Le Petit Four
Le Petit Four is a mediocre French restaurant on The Strip that you’re visiting relatives will always ask to go to.
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Hot N Juicy Crawfish
Hot N Juicy Crawfish is an eat-seafood-out-of-a-bag chain restaurant and where you go for pure comfort.
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Vespertine
Vespertine is dark, dreary, and lifeless restaurant in Culver City, and you’d be wise to stay far away.
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Villa Blanca
Villa Blanca is the original Lisa Vanderpump restaurant, and that’s about the only interesting thing about it.
