Tower Bar

I took my amazing wife here last week for her Birthday.5/5 excellent drinks exquisitely made in the cocktail lounge bar.Drinks from the dining-room bar were sub par, 3/5.Food was absolutely delicious all aroundThe calamari in particular was amazing. Deviled eggs were also excellent. 5/5Cobb salad was average3/5As an experience it was 5/5 very grade old Hollywood & very LA. Some of our favorite spots are:The Magic CastleLawyersPolo ClubSo this is right smack in our wheel house, we loved it!!!

The food is delicious but you come here for the vibes and it never disappoints. Get a martini and fries and enjoy!

Dimitri. He is the essence and taste of this elegant but very busy bar. The food is wonderful and very filling. I had vegetable Curry, which tasted with a Thai flavor. The rice is plentiful and mixed in with the carrots, etc. I had medium curry so make sure you have water nearby. And the service is great, but make sure you introduce yourself with the elegant host, Dimitri.

Very impolite staff, especially front standing members, everyone seems to be owner or GM .Every one lies, as if fully booked. Had the same situation/ experience with them ,,

Fabulous!!!! I am a Celebrity Writer. I had decided to have a business meeting at the Tower Bar yesterday with a potential investor from overseas. I was greeted by a friendly lady at the hostess stand and she was kind to ask me where I preferred to sit on the patio. I chose the table closest to the door. Our waiter Angel lived up to his name. Very friendly and upbeat. I ordered tuna tartare for an appetizer. -divine. There were several waiters who were very gave us 5-star service, I really appreciated it and my guest was impressed, thank you! I ordered the club. Being originally from Boston, I was hoping it was similar, and it was. My guest ordered the grilled cheese with tomato soup. He loved it. I will definitely entertain there again. Thank you!

I felt sooo cool having a glass of champs and listening to live music on a Saturday evening at Tower Bar. It's an amazing bar for people watching and a quintessential Hollywood experience. The jazz was fantastic and the perfect compliment to the dark and swanky vibes. Do yourself a favor and pop in for a drink if you are in town. You surely won't regret it.

Best spot on this end of town for a girls night! Some of the best martinis in LA hands down. The sundae is a favorite as well. Make sure to make a reservation!!!

Received a raspberry with candle for my birthday, no thanks! After spending over $200 for dinner, poor customer service.

(This 4 star rating is a gift to this place, probably because I am in a holiday mood. I am going to unpack my Thanksgiving experience there, below. This will take nuance and finesse because there is a lot to consider in giving them my rating. I will be generous but honest, because I want people who read my reviews to feel they are equipped to make the decision to go, or not, accurately.)We have friends who know the area quite well and have exacting standards of their own and I trust their having selected the Tower Bar for a festive Thanksgiving out. Their experiences there may differ from mine, one reason for which is the fact that I am a vegetarian lifer and expect certain things from a meal.Ambience: no question, clubby, intimate, sophisticated. If you sit near a window at sunset and thereafter, you will have a spectacular view of all of Los Angeles laid out in its celebrated glitter. However, it was so dark that, had I not already studied the menu and made my selections a priori, I would have been unable to see anything on that sheet. Since one is discouraged from breaking out a phone, I could not use my phone light. The one candle on the table was insufficient to illuminate the faint writing on that menu. They have to find a way to raise the lighting. Are they worried that a high profile figure will be outed? Any staffer could quash inappropriate star-stricken behavior. They don't need to shroud those celebs to keep them from those of us who dropped a bundle to be there, more on that below.Service: friendly, professional, not too warm or fuzzy (OK, no need for cosseting me), responsive and gracious. Good, it should be like that at an elevated venue like this. Swift valet parking, greeters immediately, all smiling -- great!Food: Ah! Here is a sticky wicket. I barely saw the bread basket that came -- the one tiny piece of baguette I had was not fresh, unremarkable, not home-made, in my opinion. Each member of our party ordered something different. Among the dishes were a turkey dinner, a steak combo with fries, Branzino with Brussel sprouts and fingerling potatoes, and a vegan vegetable and quinoa "entree". I didn't hear anyone enconomiumizing any of it. In fact, one person rightly pointed out that the frying oil being canola is a no-no. It is a throwback to earlier times when people paid little attention to heart health, among other things. Let's talk about my selections. There was a prix fixe set menu for Thanksgiving dinner. There were only two items I could have from the main dish list: a vegan burger with potatoes or a vegetable mix. I chose the latter. It was composed of lightly cooked carrots, string beans, tomatoes and a dark version of quinoa. The three vegetables would have been lovely as a side dish. The quinoa -- aka the protein part of this plate -- was taste-free. Knowing that it might be like this, I had already had the deviled egg appetizer that consisted of three eggs, halved, the yolk having been seasoned and creamed. They were very good, as deviling goes. There was an acceptable, but not special pumpkin pie for dessert (as well as a chocolate lava-type choice or cookies, the latter being strange for this kind of experience, imho). I want to tell the chef something: vegans and especially vegetarians to do not dine on rabbit food. This was clearly the limit of whoever designed this menu's understanding of non-meat fare. I have been completely meatless for four decades and I assure you, the last time I had quasi-raw vegetables as my main dish had to be forty years ago at my dad's country club. Either this is ignorance or unmindfulness, as there is vast and deep information available on how to construct a nutritious and delicious vegan or vegetarian entree, in 2023. This entire episode may have something to do with the special holiday menu, or dinner, or some other factor of which I am unaware, but it was disappointing to put it mildly.Since we were with excellent company, the meal was lighthearted, lively, enjoyable and successful. Tower Bar is a pretty place with pretty people. But, for $250 pp, I expected more. It is easily remediable. Let's recap:* raise the lighting a degree or two so people can appreciate their party, the menu, and the lovely decor* do a little research and learn what vegans and vegetarians actually eat regularly. I could write an encylopedic treatise on this subject and I am not a chef! I am a boomer and even I know that, much less the generations that follow who are quite hip to this dietary regimen*switch to olive oil *raise the quality of the bread*don't offer cookies at any holiday meal -- certainly not as the paid dessert, put them in a little box as a courtesy, especially at these prices -- how about pecan or walnut pie instead?Would I return? Yes, during the afternoon. I want to give Tower Bar another chance that it apparently deserves based on other reviews that are far more complimentary.

Reservation 8.30Seated 9.05Ordered glass of wine 9.05Received wine 9.30Water glasses empty frequently during dinner Recovery by staff, non existent