Restaurant review of Miceli's Restaurant in Universal City
I specifically asked people (whose taste I still trust and respect) for the name of a place to eat at which would not be generic "or Hooters" to entertain someone from out of town while they were in the area, which is how I found Miceli's Restaurant.
Here's my review of dinner out.
Micelis' Restaurant is definitely not your run-of-the-the-mill, urban strip mall eatery, like the over-priced crap on Universal City Walk. However, it is the kind of Italian dive I could imagine shooting Bonnie Blakely in.
Add to this it also hosts what I would call the worst lounge bar in the world.
I mean, to me, nothing says "nice dinner out" like trying to order pasta over screeched show tunes from "Annie" while being accompanied by a lounge band.
The bizarrely over-priced Italian ambience does not stop there, either, in fact the entire restaurant looks like a 1984 backdrop to a summer stock version of "Lady and the Tramp." Red candles. Red checked table cloths. Old, dusty wine bottles hanging from the rafters. Paint by number murals of Venice on the walls.
Nice high, prices and, you guessed it, a very loud lounge band where anyone -- ANYBODY -- can just get up sing. If you call it that.
However, it is dark-ish. Which is nice. And it does have twinkle lights. And it does not rush you through dinner.
So, those are good things.
It's also tasteless and blander than something you could defrost from Albertson's so think about that before you drop a good $80.00 for dinner for two on your next night out.
But, it was an expensive way to avoid the strip mall that IS the rest of Southern California. I will say that much.
One Star: For the twinkle lights, the "Venice" mural and the checked tablecloths.
Here's my review of dinner out.
Micelis' Restaurant is definitely not your run-of-the-the-mill, urban strip mall eatery, like the over-priced crap on Universal City Walk. However, it is the kind of Italian dive I could imagine shooting Bonnie Blakely in.
Add to this it also hosts what I would call the worst lounge bar in the world.
I mean, to me, nothing says "nice dinner out" like trying to order pasta over screeched show tunes from "Annie" while being accompanied by a lounge band.
The bizarrely over-priced Italian ambience does not stop there, either, in fact the entire restaurant looks like a 1984 backdrop to a summer stock version of "Lady and the Tramp." Red candles. Red checked table cloths. Old, dusty wine bottles hanging from the rafters. Paint by number murals of Venice on the walls.
Nice high, prices and, you guessed it, a very loud lounge band where anyone -- ANYBODY -- can just get up sing. If you call it that.
However, it is dark-ish. Which is nice. And it does have twinkle lights. And it does not rush you through dinner.
So, those are good things.
It's also tasteless and blander than something you could defrost from Albertson's so think about that before you drop a good $80.00 for dinner for two on your next night out.
But, it was an expensive way to avoid the strip mall that IS the rest of Southern California. I will say that much.
One Star: For the twinkle lights, the "Venice" mural and the checked tablecloths.
Yum! This delicacy will run you $18.99, thank you!
Miceli's Italian Restaurant
3655 Cahuenga Blvd W
Los Angeles, CA 90068
(323) 851-3344
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