Ford's Filling Station

• Cuisine(s): American, California, Contemporary, Small Plates
  Hours: Sun 11am-9pm, Mon-Wed 11am-10pm, Thu-Sat 11am-11pm
  Price: $$$
  Payment Types: MasterCard, Visa, American Express, Diners Club
• Features: Patio/Sidewalk Dining, Takeout, Private Party, Catering, Business Dining
  Serving: Dinner, Late Night, Lunch
  Entertainment: Live Entertainment
  Alcohol: Full bar
• Reservations: Accepted, Recommended
  Parking: Lot Available

Description

Ford's, whose chef-owner is Benjamin Ford, is a bar that happens to have ambitious, organic food as opposed to a restaurant that happens to have a bar attached, a gastropub where you can enjoy pretty decent cooking while being bounced around like a pachinko ball. If you manage to power your way to a barstool or to an actual table, you will find most of the usual Los Angeles gastropub classics. If you like the fried Ipswich clams at Jar, you will probably like Ford's rudely indelicate version. There is a hamburger tricked out with blue cheese and an onion compote, the requisite butter-lettuce salad with bacon, and a decent selection of cheeses and meats, some of them procured from Armandino Batali in Seattle, to help down the wine.