24/7 Restaurant | Downtown Standard | L.A.

There's one word to describe this restaurant... yellow! Luckily I like the color yellow, if I didn't I'd probably find this place really nauseating to eat. You can count on the cold attitude of the Sunset Blvd. mentality that poisons L.A. creeping into this Downtown establishment. But is it really any surprise coming from a place that calls itself the Standard? Like my good friend Johnny put it, "the Standard needs to up up their Standard." I found this statement to be true, when it came to the host stand. We waited a good 5 minutes, no host came, actually the person that either looked like a hostess or a manager was talking behind the walls of the server station. Now I'm not one to bitch but after working in numerous hospitality establishments, they get a failing grade when it comes to the host/greeter department. I got frustrated and grabbed two menus and sat our selves at a booth.



It took a while to even get acknowledged, but we were lucky enough to be greeted and waited on by Art, an aspiring fashion student. Thank goodness he was cool, otherwise I would have left and ate somewhere else. With a happy spirit about him, we continued to have a good customer/ patron experience. We ordered two mojitos, a Downtown Benedict and a Chop Salad with Rock Shrimp. Both tasted great and came out in good time.


The decor was cool, yellow of course, but I really dug the ceilings and the hanging white lighting fixtures.


The seats were comfortable, wrapped in yellow leather. The staff was fairly attractive, a few hits and a few misses, but I had to compliment their uniforms, a nice multi-colored striped button up shirt and blue jeans, now I haven't seen a cooler wait staff uniform since eating at Downtown in Berkeley.


The mojitos were so so, pretty weak, and coming from me, a total light weight, that is pretty damn weak, and at $11, I deserve some kind of a buzz. The prices here are moderate, but the food is pretty much glamorized diner food. But nothing to the caliber of New York City's Cafeteria, which is one of my personal favorite eateries of all time. Overall it was a good experience, our server was cool, the food was good. But just like a comment in any reality T.V. based competition, "it was good, but will I remember it at the end of the night? Not really." So with that said, it was good, but forgettable. And someone please tell them to get their host staff on point!

The Standard Downtown LA
550 South Flower @ Sixth St.
Los Angeles, CA. 90071
Phone: 213.892.8080
www.standardhotels.com