Angler sounds too much like Sizzler to me.
Thanks!
I have no idea who or what the infatuation is, but to me this poses a philosophical question: am I more likely to trust a chefâs opinion or a criticâs?
The answer, I suppose, is an FTCerâsâŚ
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Where is Keith Gilabert when we need him most?
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Do they have cheese toast? 
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If Sizzler : Angler is as Turf : Surf
Then Cheese toast : Uni toast
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Yeah, itâs a remarkable transformation. On the other hand, the second time I ordered it I felt like once was enough.
For $240. Kinda makes Saison seem like a bargain.
looks like a Vegas club for retired dads.
and Totoâs âAfricaâ blasting over the loudspeaker.
To be fair, it was probably the Weezer version.
They do a great job with the Flannery Jorge steak. Probably my favorite prep of it in LA. It also might be the cheapest at $105
For a review site that loves going to hole in the walls and restaurants in warehouses, I still donât understand why they are so unable to process that angler is at Beverly Center.
For what itâs worth chef Mei Lin has the same feeling as chef Yao. She went as far to say itâs her favorite restaurant in LA right now
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I like the controversy that this restaurant is generating canât wait to check it out.
In regards to chefs defending other chefs this shouldnât be suprising (and likely quite self serving) as the chef community is pretty close knit and they definitely have a common interest in defending against publications bringing bad press.
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Whereâd she say that?
Yikes re the Infatuation review: âThe fact theyâre selling a $888 crab dish and a piece of wet toast for over $100 inside a restaurant at the worst mall in the city is proof of how tone-deaf this place is at its core.â
I was actually starting to warm up to the idea of trying Angler, but only because someone with a lot of money who likes to spend money in restaurants offered to take a friend and I wherever we wanted to go â Iâm a lot more willing to take a flyer when Iâm spending other peopleâs money as opposed to my own hard-earned dollars â but yikes that review from the Infatuation. (And when I mentioned Angler and that it was at the Beverly Center, the other invitee to dinner just groaned). There is a certain type of Angeleno, and I guess Iâm not the only one, for whom the mere mention of the Beverly Center invokes shudders.
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Iâm not sure thatâs a review. Thereâs no score. Maybe itâs just a preview.
That guy seems like a pretty untrustworthy critic.
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the infatuationâs reviews are written by a bunch of different people
Iâm talking specifically about that guy. His comments about Aburiya Raku sound like he accidentally went tot he wrong restaurant.
âFoggyâ tanks?
Imagine thinking the best thing at Raku is asparagus with bacon, what a depressing palate to have. In regards to uni toast price, the Hokkaido uni itself cost $200.
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I havenât found them to be a reliable source for reviews⌠they reviewers seem to have an angsty, bitter, chip-on-the shoulder, axe-to-grind inclination
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The Infatuation is garbage.
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