by Chris E. on So we're house sitting right across the street from this place and there's a sign outside that says "Breakfast Served All Day", which is fine and dandy with me! Now Greenpoint, as you might know, is an old school truly Polish neighborhood, so this modern Eurodance nightclub sticks out like a sore thumb on the corner of Morgan and Nassau. The place was dead empty at noon on Friday, even with their enticing all-day breakfast offering. There was a tough looking girl with a wife beater behind the bar and almost unpleasantly loud dance music blaring. I would not have been shocked to see those two Night at the Roxbury guys bopping their heads in the corner. We sat out on the rather nice, if not slightly gaudy, back patio under a beautiful blue tarp and checked the breaky menu out - I ordered the Fusilli Pasta Scramble as did our friend and the wife ordered the Strawberry Blintzes. It seriously took forever for them to make it. Nearly a half an hour. We saw the waitress only once for a coffee replacement (notice the phrasing - she brought me a whole new cup instead of refilling. Weird.). The girls went to el baño hoping to induce food arrival, which as usual, worked like a charm, but at this point I wasn't expecting much. Then I tasted. The pasta was a touch undercooked, but the scramble was amazing! Fresh polish sausage and yummy herby eggses, fresh tomatos and parmesan. Yum! The wife's blintzes were amazing as well. Fresh, creamy strawberry filling, served with Nutella. If the rest of the food is comparable to what we had, then it's well worth the mediocre service and crappy music. I've heard the place turns into douchebag central at night, so beware. We're across the street at 1AM on Saturday night and can hear nary a peep coming from there.
by Brett D. on Oh Roosevelt Hotel, I'm so disappointed in you. Now take a time out and go to your room. As a matter of fact, I think your "Deluxe King Suite" would be a great place to begin your 10 minutes in the bad corner since there is certainly nothing 'deluxe' or 'king' about it. If I had to be bluntly descriptive I'd knock around terms like Efficiency, Inadequate, Unacceptable, Tacky, Constrictive and Claustrophobic. As a native Los Angeleno I usually stay at home with family when I'm back in town visiting L.A. so it's quite a treat when I get to abuse my expense account and put myself up somewhere swanky. I always look for something young with a bit of a scene but still luxurious enough where I'm still getting world class service. With the remodel of the old school Roosevelt I've heard such wonderful things that led to me to believe it would be right up my alley... The lobby was small and very underwhelming (obviously candlelight does not automatically give style to a space) and their front desk staff had a snooty attitude off the bat explaining to us that guests of the hotel did not have any preferential status getting into the uber-exclusive Teddy's and we may as well not even try. Nice. What exactly am I paying $600/night for... pomegranate soap and shitty art???? I also came to find out that their pool was under renovation and would be inaccessible during my stay... that might have been a nice tidbit of info during booking, eh?? Apparently the Roosevelt Hotel staff think I'm supposed to just feel lucky to stay in my mouse hole of a room with no pool action and no coke binges with Lindsay Lohan at Teddy's. Lame. Lame. Lame. The few stars I am giving are for the manager, Evan who worked with me over the phone (after I bolted like my shoes were on fire from The Roosevelt and checked into The Mondrian) to give me a full refund and make several lovely offers with the intentions of getting my business back with a (hopefully) more pleasant experience the next go round. I'm not sure I'll be back unless The Mondrian, Viceroy, Four Seasons and The Standard all burn down... but it's nice to know that customer service, even in L.A., is still alive, well and dancin' on tables (even if I won't be...)
by Man Levesque on Go earlier, go on a weeknight, and enjoy. I've grown to like this place a lot for the good drinks, good tunes (Mint Julep Mondays are a kick, whenever soso limited shows up, you're in for an awesome time), and laid back crowd that's very conductive to bringing a close friend or date to early on on the evening and having a few drinks. As said before, the rolling seats are kinda funky, but if you want, they have stops. Try to grab a cocktail waitress rather than going after the bartender directly, although depending on the time of night, this might not be an option. Prices are fair for the area, nothing extremely stupid. Haven't had any food here ever, so I can't comment on that yet. Reggae night around 10 or 11 is extremely dead zone level here, so if you want the whole place basically to yourself, go then.
