Super Peach friends & family lunch today. Early press reported that they were aiming for a $50-60 per person price point. I guess it’s possible but I would be leaving hungry…
Doesn’t look very interesting to me, but I imagine this will do great business at CC.
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Into some of the small dishes and kimbap (when Kawi in NY was open the kimbap was quite great) but the mains are boring. The dungeness crab large format could be fun!!
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ok, LA restaurant pricing has gone totally insane. or is it just me? after a month in NYC, London, Chicago, midwest, New Orleans, Seattle - LA feels like the worst QPR of any major city currently, for both food and beverage. rant over.
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Reservations available starting Sunday.
I wonder if this is a prototype for something they could roll out nationally / internationally? Doesn’t seem as dependent on the bounty of LA produce as Majordomo.
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Yes! Was in NYC last month and I commented to dining companions like “wow food’s pretty affordable around here huh?” and they were aghast. But relative to LA I found stuff totally reasonable!
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It’s really reminiscent of the short lived Bar Wayo in NY and the second location of Ssam bar so it’s very possible!
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those skewers are pricey…… I assume it’s 2 sticks for $12 of chicken…. right?
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yes seems much more like $100p/p+ without drinks for dinner; $150p/p without drinks isn’t much of a stretch with certain items.
generally pricing looks in line with what i’d expect for LA. except for the $39 mushroom lo mein, wthelly. menu looks safe, easy for a mall, but also kind of on-brand for Chang’s output now.
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I don’t know if I just ate at expensive places, but when I was in NYC for a long weekend in July, I don’t recall thinking that the food seemed less expensive, TBH.
As for Super Peach, I guess it depends on how big the plates (food) are. The food at Majordomo was pretty big, IIRC.
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it’s a similar deal that DTF/HDL have with westfields. Like an asian slanted Hillstone’s group restaurant that’ll have multiple locations
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Went to F&F last night.
Beef skewers are not to be missed. Maybe my favorite thing i ate on the menu. Marinated ala korean BBQ style.
Tuna Kimbap - my family said it was a bit salty
Soft tofu - pretty simple prep, ginger, soy sauce. I liked it, everyone else found it too soft
reliable chicken wing if a touch salty. Nice sauces
Chinese chicken salad - cabbage was a bit bitter, but nice rendition.
A domo staple tomato salad.
Fried donut with curry - my dining companions did not enjoy it but couldn’t verbalize to me the issue
New york steak with pea shoot salad
Well cooked steak, nice acid on the salad.
There was a fight at the table on this. The mushroom sauce is rich and umami laden, worked great with everything.
Salmon with Beurre blanc - perfect salmon dish. Sauce was like but forward, salmon cooked perfectly to slightly above medium rare.
Sweet potato wedges - went very well with the above two sauces
I don’t think you’re gonna be bold in your face fusion flavors you expect from Domo/Momofuku here. To me it’s clearly trying to fill the space of Houston’s/Hillstone group restaurants but with a slight asian slant to it. Dishes are more simple in nature, straight forward and approachable. If you’re at a mall and have to choose between Cheesecake factory, food court, California Pizza Kitchen, you’d def be happy with this over all those.
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how much was it? for the price not sure if worth it
Not sure if this is really a high praise
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but honest! and properly sets expectations
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very curious how this will do compared to din tai fung…
Going to try for lunch next Sunday. I’m personally very into this for a pre or post movie meal when I’ve had too much din tai fung and also open for lunch helps with the kiddo.
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Not sure what people are expecting. It’s purposefully a restaurant geared toward mall diners.
Houston’s is the perfect comparison for the restaurant.
You get a few shared apps. Everyone gets a main for themselves. It’s not actually meant to be shared. They are single person sized.
It’ll expand to multiple Westfields as anchors just like DTF is. Back in the day there was a Hillstone restaurant in almost every nice mall too.
It’s executing exactly what it wants to be. It’s not meant for people to drive cross town to only eat there and to be wow’d by something they’ve never had before.
I can imagine post movie /shopping I take my daughter- get a couple skewers, a salad, and a pasta and leave happier than eating anywhere else in the mall (outside of DTF)
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Yeah I’m 10000% with you on this one. If it can be reliable (and I’m sure it’ll dial in over a few weeks) that’s exactly the Hillstone model. Sometimes I want a simple thing done right for my Sunday at the mall with a movie and window shopping. Also opening for lunch with a full menu is a perk.
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