At Custom Hotel, the West side's answer to the Standard, hipsters collide at Bistrotek, the chic bar/restaurant that sits between the hotel and the neighboring Ralphs. Luckily for me, you don't have to be a hipster to go there for dinner, so they let me and my coworkers in. I arrived late and missed any appetizers, but I had the halibut for dinner. It was pan fried and served on a bed of cous cous with asparagus and had an asparagus cream sauce on the side. The fish itself was pretty good, but the asparagus cream sauce tasted a little weird. The cous cous was also pretty good, but has more asparagus on top and overall the dish was just a little asparagus heavy. I had a glass of the Roseanne wine which was served in a cute little decanter that looked like a petite milk bottle. The dessert menu was a little strange and was trying a little too hard to be a new take on old favorites. For the table we shared a coffee and donuts (bite sized cinnamon sugar donuts with coffee ice cream), a grilled cheese (marscapone sandwich with nutella and a raspberry "ketchup" sauce), and a brownie with butterscotch syrup, fudge, and ice cream. The best one was the brownie, but it was a little plain and dull. The grilled cheese was interesting and at first taste was pretty good, despite the scariness of the raspberry ketchup, but left a major butter taste in your mouth. Overall, it wasn't great, but if you are looking for somewhere other than fast food around LAX, it might be worth a stop. Unfortunately, I didn't order for myself since I got there late and I have no idea what the prices were. I didn't get a chance to check it out, but I heard they had a really great poolside bar that might be worth stopping by on a hot summer day.
http://www.customhotel.com/restaurant_and_pool/bistrotek.php
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