Zagat Survey Discussions

“South Beach meets Beverly Center” at this “cool” “‘it’ spot” with a “non-hotel” look in the revamped Sofitel LA, where “rock-star chef” Kerry Simon creates “inventive” “refits” of American comfort “classics”, including an “outrageous” junk food platter dessert, when he isn’t greeting diners in the “noisy” room; the “service isn’t entirely on the ball”, but there’s a “nice buzz” in the Rose Lounge next door, where the “eye candy’s out of this world” and young enough, it seems, to warn “anyone over 30 to bring extra batteries for their pacemaker.”