Table 301, let’s just start this off with the fact that I want you to prove me wrong and I know you can.<\/p>\n
Upon arrival at your space, there is no doubt that IDA Architecture’s design is astounding: yellows and grays are met with stamped concrete floors covered in hand painted details, mirrored spaces that expand the overall depth, and a patio area that is truly\u2014and I really mean this\u2014unmatched in DTLB. Hell, it even has its own separate bar, a joyous place where everyone should spend their thirsty hours. Repeat: go and have a beer (cocktail menu still needs work) but before you think about food…<\/p>\n
To go with its massive space is an equally expansive menu, one that is perhaps\u00a0dipped in delusions of grandeur and feels more dissociative than cohesive: Mexican meets Greek meets Soul Food meets Carnival Food meets Italian meets meets meets… Unfortunately it also meets a complete lack of quality and execution.<\/p>\n
It is here where disappointment is met with intense frustration: The space itself is so incredible\u2014entirely open walls make it feel like, on a day with a slight breeze, you’re on a Mediterranean coastline\u2014that the food should match it.<\/p>\n
It does not.<\/p>\n
Let’s start with their pizzas, which I’ve now made the mistake of ordering\u00a0three times.<\/p>\n
One obvious thing must be said aloud and clearly here: When you have the audacity to start making pizzas in a city that is home to La Parolaccia\u2014a joint that’s been doing stellar wood-oven pizzas for well over a decade\u2014and directly\u00a0across the street<\/em> from Michael’s\u2014whose Napolitano-style pies are some of the best in the entire region\u2014you best be slingin’ out spectacularly created rounds of Italy-on-a-plate.<\/p>\n Instead, there is a constant question of whether the kitchen knows how to use the wood oven or create a pizza.<\/p>\n Sometimes\u2014in my case, when ordering their potato “white pizza”\u2014they come out looking like<\/a> something between an intense medical condition and a child throwing some rabbit droppings onto a slab of dough.<\/p>\n Sometimes, they come out looking like<\/a> something was murdered and then topped with slices of basil, like their Margherita “pizza”\u00a0(which has an overwhelming sweetness to it that reminds me of Prego). Just a few notes: Basil turns a dark brown and black when cooked for too long; either throw it on the pizza post-baking or use full leaves and amp up your oven heat. (Furthermore, Michael’s gives a free Margherita every Monday when you purchase another one of their pizzas; go and see what a Margherita is supposed to look like<\/a>. Also when there, you can see what a potato pie is supposed to look like<\/a>.)<\/p>\n Sometimes, they come out so incredibly burnt that it prompts someone on Yelp! to take a picture<\/a> of\u00a0someone else’s pizza\u00a0<\/em>because it looks like it came out of the fifth level of hell. (And I will be entirely frank: as a food writer and lover, I think Yelp! is one of the worst tools ever to exist for restaurants, providing anyone and everyone the opportunity to give a restaurant a one-star review because of no valet service; here, however, is one of the shining examples of how it can be a tool for restaurants to clean up their act.)<\/p>\n Then there’s an assortment of other issues.<\/p>\n The green hummus, which uses a supposed variety of herbs to create a split pea-looking, dry paste smeared with a single, sad stroke on its serving dish<\/a> (and not a drop of olive oil or some pine nuts to spruce up its sorrow) evokes “The Exorcist” on a plate. (While we’re mentioning neighbors, you guys should head to Ammatol\u00ed two doors down<\/a>\u00a0to taste a genuinely decent hummus.)<\/p>\n Their poor po’ boy sandwich\u2014a staple of the South that brings in the richness of the ocean with the complexity of Soul Food and something I made the mistake of ordering twice in the blind hope it could provide that comfort I love from better versions of it\u2014is served on a depressing baguette, its accoutrements (including an array of jarred pickle slices that cut through the saltiness of the batter) hidden under over-fried, over-battered shrimp (and sometimes, if you’re lucky, just fried balls of batter). White and brown. 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With a space that incredible, this shouldn’t be the the end of it but rather a rocky beginning.<\/p>\n Again, I can’t wait for you to prove me wrong, Table 301 (whose owners, I might mention, formerly owned and operated Delius in Signal Hill)\u2014and again, I know you can.<\/p>\n Table 301 is located at\u00a0301 The Promenade North.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" To go with its massive space is an equally expansive menu, one that is perhaps\u00a0dipped in delusions of grandeur and feels more dissociative than cohesive: Mexican meets Greek meets Soul Food meets Carnival Food meets Italian meats… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":211,"featured_media":66036,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","inline_featured_image":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":"","_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_":"","_author_alias":"","cap-aim":"","cap-description":"","cap-display_name":"","cap-first_name":"","cap-jabber":"","cap-last_name":"","cap-linked_account":"","cap-newspack_employer":"","cap-newspack_job_title":"","cap-newspack_phone_number":"","cap-newspack_role":"","cap-user_email":"","cap-user_login":"","cap-website":"","cap-yahooim":"","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_email_html":"","newspack_email_type":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_hide_page_title":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_show_share_buttons":"","newspack_sponsor_byline_prefix":"","newspack_sponsor_disclaimer_override":"","newspack_sponsor_flag_override":"","newspack_sponsor_only_direct":"","newspack_sponsor_url":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[246],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[2691],"class_list":["post-586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-food","tag-review","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/211"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=586"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
![looking like<\/a> something between an intense medical condition and a child throwing some rabbit droppings onto a slab of dough.<\/p>\nSometimes, they come out looking like<\/a> something was murdered and then topped with slices of basil, like their Margherita “pizza”\u00a0(which has an overwhelming sweetness to it that reminds me of Prego). Just a few notes: Basil turns a dark brown and black when cooked for too long; either throw it on the pizza post-baking or use full leaves and amp up your oven heat. (Furthermore, Michael’s gives a free Margherita every Monday when you purchase another one of their pizzas; go and see what a Margherita is supposed to look like<\/a>. Also when there, you can see what a potato pie is supposed to look like<\/a>.)<\/p>\nSometimes, they come out so incredibly burnt that it prompts someone on Yelp! to take a picture<\/a> of\u00a0someone else’s pizza\u00a0<\/em>because it looks like it came out of the fifth level of hell. (And I will be entirely frank: as a food writer and lover, I think Yelp! is one of the worst tools ever to exist for restaurants, providing anyone and everyone the opportunity to give a restaurant a one-star review because of no valet service; here, however, is one of the shining examples of how it can be a tool for restaurants to clean up their act.)<\/p>\nThen there’s an assortment of other issues.<\/p>\nThe green hummus, which uses a supposed variety of herbs to create a split pea-looking, dry paste smeared with a single, sad stroke on its serving dish<\/a> (and not a drop of olive oil or some pine nuts to spruce up its sorrow) evokes “The Exorcist” on a plate. (While we’re mentioning neighbors, you guys should head to Ammatol\u00ed two doors down<\/a>\u00a0to taste a genuinely decent hummus.)<\/p>\nTheir poor po’ boy sandwich\u2014a staple of the South that brings in the richness of the ocean with the complexity of Soul Food and something I made the mistake of ordering twice in the blind hope it could provide that comfort I love from better versions of it\u2014is served on a depressing baguette, its accoutrements (including an array of jarred pickle slices that cut through the saltiness of the batter) hidden under over-fried, over-battered shrimp (and sometimes, if you’re lucky, just fried balls of batter). White and brown. Here ya go.<\/a><\/p>\nI can go on and on\u2014don’t even get me started on the stale, did-you-really-just-dump-these-out-of-a-bag “chicharrones” that are tossed in what tasted like the dry powder from Kraft mac’n’cheese boxes\u2014but the largest point here to be taken is that I genuinely believe the kitchen can and should do better. It’s really that simple. With a space that incredible, this shouldn’t be the the end of it but rather a rocky beginning.<\/p>\nAgain, I can’t wait for you to prove me wrong, Table 301 (whose owners, I might mention, formerly owned and operated Delius in Signal Hill)\u2014and again, I know you can.<\/p>\nTable 301 is located at\u00a0301 The Promenade North.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"To go with its massive space is an equally expansive menu, one that is perhaps\u00a0dipped in delusions of grandeur and feels more dissociative than cohesive: Mexican meets Greek meets Soul Food meets Carnival Food meets Italian meats… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":211,"featured_media":66036,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","inline_featured_image":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":"","_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_":"","_author_alias":"","cap-aim":"","cap-description":"","cap-display_name":"","cap-first_name":"","cap-jabber":"","cap-last_name":"","cap-linked_account":"","cap-newspack_employer":"","cap-newspack_job_title":"","cap-newspack_phone_number":"","cap-newspack_role":"","cap-user_email":"","cap-user_login":"","cap-website":"","cap-yahooim":"","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_email_html":"","newspack_email_type":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_hide_page_title":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_show_share_buttons":"","newspack_sponsor_byline_prefix":"","newspack_sponsor_disclaimer_override":"","newspack_sponsor_flag_override":"","newspack_sponsor_only_direct":"","newspack_sponsor_url":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[246],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[2691],"class_list":["post-586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-food","tag-review","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/211"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=586"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/55348661723__75C81F76-5C1F-4349-A4E5-2D6266135256.jpeg\"){kind=link}
![looking like<\/a> something was murdered and then topped with slices of basil, like their Margherita “pizza”\u00a0(which has an overwhelming sweetness to it that reminds me of Prego). Just a few notes: Basil turns a dark brown and black when cooked for too long; either throw it on the pizza post-baking or use full leaves and amp up your oven heat. (Furthermore, Michael’s gives a free Margherita every Monday when you purchase another one of their pizzas; go and see what](\"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/55348661229__AF1BE751-2832-4706-82AA-8D993A617107.jpeg\"){kind=link}
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![a potato pie is supposed to look like<\/a>.)<\/p>\nSometimes, they come out so incredibly burnt that it prompts someone on Yelp! to take a picture<\/a> of\u00a0someone else’s pizza\u00a0<\/em>because it looks like it came out of the fifth level of hell. (And I will be entirely frank: as a food writer and lover, I think Yelp! is one of the worst tools ever to exist for restaurants, providing anyone and everyone the opportunity to give a restaurant a one-star review because of no valet service; here, however, is one of the shining examples of how it can be a tool for restaurants to clean up their act.)<\/p>\nThen there’s an assortment of other issues.<\/p>\nThe green hummus, which uses a supposed variety of herbs to create a split pea-looking, dry paste smeared with a single, sad stroke on its serving dish<\/a> (and not a drop of olive oil or some pine nuts to spruce up its sorrow) evokes “The Exorcist” on a plate. (While we’re mentioning neighbors, you guys should head to Ammatol\u00ed two doors down<\/a>\u00a0to taste a genuinely decent hummus.)<\/p>\nTheir poor po’ boy sandwich\u2014a staple of the South that brings in the richness of the ocean with the complexity of Soul Food and something I made the mistake of ordering twice in the blind hope it could provide that comfort I love from better versions of it\u2014is served on a depressing baguette, its accoutrements (including an array of jarred pickle slices that cut through the saltiness of the batter) hidden under over-fried, over-battered shrimp (and sometimes, if you’re lucky, just fried balls of batter). White and brown. Here ya go.<\/a><\/p>\nI can go on and on\u2014don’t even get me started on the stale, did-you-really-just-dump-these-out-of-a-bag “chicharrones” that are tossed in what tasted like the dry powder from Kraft mac’n’cheese boxes\u2014but the largest point here to be taken is that I genuinely believe the kitchen can and should do better. It’s really that simple. 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