The Brasserie

Kendall's is the best place to go after work in Downtown LA for Happy Hour or just to hang with friends. It is also a great bar for anyone going to a show at the Music Center. Having dinner there is the best. They start serving dinner right at 5 so you can easily make it to your performance at the Music Center. The staff knows curtain time and will make sure you have plenty of time to get where you are going. If you are not going to a show it is one of the best places for fine dinning in Downtown LA. The menu is not huge, but everything on it is perfect. We have been a few times now and are working our way though the menu as well as the starters. The staff is great and so very professional. They will take super good care of you. They check on you often and they know the menu well. This latest time we tried their chicken dish which was amazing. It is a chicken breast, large, with crispy skin. Under that is fingerling potatoes, tomatoes and other great things, all in an amazing broth. We had to have their mussels, shrimp and other seafood in a rich broth again. It is my grandson's favorite and boy do you get a lot of seafood. They just introduced a new Caesar salad, which might not sound like much, but it is truly the best Caesar salad I have ever had. It has this dressing that is just amazing and the Romine is so fresh and crisp. It also has kale on it, which my grandson took great care to remove--but he sure loved the rest of it as did I. It also has some anti pasto meats. We tried their nuts for the first time. They come baked and in a little bowl with seasoning on them and they are fantastic. I never though I would order that as a starter, but it will now be ordered by us whenever we go. Their truffle fries are great and we love their coffee. Get their bread as well. It is worth it. Their desserts are great, the best being their chocolate pot, which is so tasty. You will love this place.

I’m a Francophile so it pains me to give any French-style restaurant a bad score but Kendall’s in March 2022 is neither worth the money nor the time you will spend waiting for service, for water, for your meal. And once the meal arrives, you’ll be sorely disappointed. We got the frites, a salad and the steak to split between two people. All were overpriced, very underwhelming in flavor and truly insanely overpriced for the quality of the food. The only thing I enjoyed were *some* aspects of the decor, the location (handy when you’re going to a an event downtown or at The Broad) and the brut rosé that we had. Two stars for that only.

Great newly remodeled restaurant. The price is high but it’s nice quality. The service was quick and they really understand the importance of delivering the food quick as the majority of the visitors are on their way to the theatre. I got the octopus salad and ratatouille with the chocolate mousse for dessert and was very pleased with everything!

Food was awful with the arrival of a new chef a month ago. He should not be allowed to cook in any restaurant. Menu has been minimized to a third of original offerings with very old school standard menu selections after new ownership with new unappealing decor. Mussels that were supposed to be cooked w/ white wine were drowned in a thick overbearing mustard sauce and prawn and endive salad had a one dimensional bitter flavor and was actually bland despite having eggplant puree, goat cheese and a mustard -tarragon vinaigrette - which you could not even discern was present. Staff was pleasant w/ very good service. Manager seemed very apologetic and did not charge for the salad and comped two desserts.