 Daily Grill
A healthy-type place with large portions of good food at very expensive prices. I dined here with Companion 72, whose dietary restrictions rival my own without much overlap. We chose Daily Grill for its flexibility with multiple diets, and I found it to be very satisfying if not all that chock full of value. The menu is mainly meat oriented, with lots of steak and chicken options, but some Veg. choices as well. I think I had a plate of grilled vegetables, and I seem to remember 72 ordering something called "Joe's Special with Mushrooms" though I also seem to recall there was some kind of snafu with them being out of chicken (it was near closing time), so I can't entirely remember what 72 ended up with. I think it had mashed potatoes, whatever it was. Mine was a careful blend of unmarinated broccoli, potatoes, red peppers, etc. Both meals were quite good and quite huge, and I ended up eating only about half of mine and saved the rest to take home, gleefully refusing to give it to the area homeless who reached up with outstretched arms, literally begging for my table scraps. Wait, that didn't really happen, but then again I'm never really sure what of my life actually does. I have found a rich alternate life within these reviews, and I strongly prefer it to my real one.
This location of Daily Grill (you can find others at www.dailygrill.com) is in a posh little strip mall with kind of nightmarish parking, but once you're in, it's real shmoove. We ate outside, where I was introduced to the very LA concept of heat lamp-enabled al fresco dining. Even as the night turns chilly, you can always dine outside thanks to these probable cancer-causing machines. It was damn comfortable, I must say. I should also mention that I ordered a lemonade, which was DAMN outstanding and the free refills were a marvelous bonus. The server was mighty cute and, while I did not get the digits, I still appreciated the cuteness, and gave a little prayer of gratitude to our Pops in the sky for creating LA, where the stars are always out and the people are all beautiful, even their problems are beautiful. Not like in, say, North Dakota, where people are all hideous and have bursitic arms.
Review by Marin K. Unappreciated, September 1999 |