10/31 Overland Cafe (Culver City, Los Angeles, CA)
American.   bifurcated between indoor and patio seating, this cafe tries to do everything, from serving breakfast to pizza and pasta to burgers and sandwiches to salads to steak and seafood.   i guess they want you to come back everytime you’re craving something.

unfortunately, this jack of all trades has no specialty and no lure for me to go back (i am usually reluctant about eating at the same place twice).  

service is excellent, especially for our party of 8.  my glass of arnold palmer was always refilled without request of prompt, and the waitresses were nice.  the cute asian one really should work at a bar and get more tips.

my mushroom bacon burger was loaded with mushrooms but unfortunately, the bacon was missing!  looks like they gave me the mushroom and swiss burger instead.  the waitress promptly brought out two slices of bacon on a dish (probably after hearing my friend joke loudly, “don’t these people know who you are?”  and something about this place is going down on yelp).

i think those of us who got burgers were happy but those who got other things like fish n’ chips were not as pleased  

next time i drive down overland towards venice blvd, i can say to myself…overland cafe…been there, done that.

 

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