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9560 Dayton Way Beverly Hills, CA 90210

310-276-0615

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Best Shrimp Louie
Award Winner 2008

Cuisine(s): American, Steakhouse

Hours: Sun 5pm-9pm, Mon-Thu 11:30am-10pm, Fri-Sat 11:30am-10:30pm

Price: $$$$
Payment Types: All Major Credit Cards

Features: Business Dining, Takeout

Serving: Dinner, Lunch
Alcohol: Full bar

Reservations: Accepted, Recommended

Parking: Lot Available, Street, Valet

Description

My favorite corned beef hash in the world is served in this swank businessman's grill in Beverly Hills, sniffing distance from the Fred Hayman perfume outlet and around the corner from the weird, cobbled boutique mall that locals refer to as Eurotrash-Disney. The ceilings are high, the wood dark, the linen heavy, the martinis clear and cold and dry. The dining room is washed in a pale, masculine light that seems imported from some century-old restaurant in New Orleans, and the white-jacketed waiters call you sir, even if you are wearing sneakers. This is, in other words, a serious place to have lunch, the kind of place where the Beverly Hills Rotary might hold its meetings if the Rotary had a chapter for aspiring billionaires. The steaks are good, and the steak tartare is sublime. You will also find this town's essential rice pudding: touched with cinnamon, drizzled with heavy cream, coaxing the nutty, rounded essence out of �every grain of rice. Free street parking before 6 p.m.

2008 | Best Shrimp Louie

Shrimp Louie, a goopy seafood salad dressed with a pinkly sweet mixture of mayonnaise and sugary bottled chile sauce, was the height of chic before World War I, a big-city dish served in every restaurant of distinction between Seattle and San Diego. James Beard used to insist that shrimp Louie originated in his hometown of Portland; food historians suspect it first appeared in San Francisco. When I was a kid, I used to crave the Louie at the S.S. Princess Louise, a restaurant fitted into an... More »

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By Jonathan Gold | Thu, February 28, 2008

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Stop the Music!

By Jonathan Gold | Thu, October 04, 2007

Dear Mr. Gold:I need your help. In my experience, a good number of restaurants play music that is too loud to allow one to converse while dining, let alone savor the food. I have a number of times asked to have the music turned down, or at least t... More »
Ask Mr. Gold

By Jonathan Gold | Thu, March 27, 2003

Q: With the world ending and everything, I am in sore need of comfort food. Does anybody still make old-fashioned rice pudding? —Janice Hollis Pacific Palisades A: Leaving aside the variations glazed with passion fruit or crusted with a carameliz... More »

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laweeklybestof | Los Angeles, CA | 71 Reviews

| Wed, May 6, 2009

Shrimp Louie, a goopy seafood salad dressed with a pinkly sweet mixture of mayonnaise and sugary bottled chile sauce, was the height of chic before World War I, a big-city dish served in every restaurant of distinction between Seattle and San Diego. James Beard used to insist that shrimp Louie originated in his hometown of Portland; food historians suspect it first appeared in San Francisco. When I was a kid, I used to crave the Louie at the S.S. Princess Louise, a restaurant fitted into an old passenger ship docked in San Pedro, although it was still served then at about half the serious restaurants in town. Though it still appears now and then at old-fashioned coffee shops, the dish is basically as extinct as mock chicken or finnan haddie. There is still shrimp Louie, a pretty good one, preserved alongside jellied consomm�, avocado cocktail and other curiosities of the '20s California kitchen, on the menu of the Musso & Frank Grill. But the expensive Louie at the Grill on the Alley is actually delicious, made with first-class prawns and dosed with a resolute jolt of chile, an old-fashioned salad retrofitted for a new century. If you come at the right time of year, you can have your Louie made with freshly picked Dungeness crabmeat instead.�Jonathan Gold
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jewgirl | Los Angeles, CA | 11 Reviews

| Mon, June 30, 2008

One of our main restaurants in our rotation. Solid, fresh food. They always get us in even if we call at 6pm for an 8pm reservation. Packed, with a distinctly older crowd. When we get there we always get the sense that they are going to give us crayons and a coloring mat while they set our table. Definitely worth seeking out places that make you feel like a child again.

Dinner Menu

Appetizers

$17.75

Shrimp Cocktail

$17.75

Dungeness Crab Cocktail

$17.50

Oysters On The Half Shell

$17.75

Jumbo Lump Crab Cake

$17.75

Steak Tartare

$15.50

Gravlaaks

$17.75

Fresh Ahi Sashimi

$15.50

P.E.I. Mussels

$9.00

Garlic Cheese Bread

$7.00

Half Order

Soups

(s) Bowl $5.75
(l) Bowl $7.00

Soups Of The Day

(s) Bowl $5.75
(l) Bowl $7.00

Chilled Gazpacho Soup

Starter Salads

$9.00

The Grill Mixed Green Salad

$9.50

Romaine Hearts

$9.75
For Two $17.50

Caesar Salad

$9.75

The Grill Chop Salad
iceberg wedge, tomatoes, red onion, bacon, crumbled bleu cheese and creamy bleu cheese dressing

$10.75

Endive, Spicy Pecans, Romaine
with gorgonzola cheese

$13.50

Iceberg Wedge
tomato, bacon, crumbled bleu cheese & vinaigrette

$16.75

The Grill Cobb Salad

$12.75

Vine Ripened Tomatoes and Sweet Onions

$14.75

Vine Ripened Tomatoes
with sweet onions and crumbled roquefort cheese

$15.50

Vine Ripened Tomatoes
and buffalo mozzarella with fresh basil

Main Course Salads

$19.75

Chicken Caesar Salad

$24.75

The Grill Cobb Salad

$28.50

Blackened Ahi Salad

$26.75

Shrimp Louie

$29.75

Dungeness Crab Louie

Seafood

$33.75

Jumbo Lump Crab Cakes

$29.75

Baked Whitefish

$29.75

Pan Fried Whitefish

$44.75

Pan Fried Dover Sole

$32.75

Poached Atlantic Salmon

$32.75

Cold Poached Atlantic Salmon

Chicken

$25.75

Chicken Marsala

$25.75

Chicken Piccata

$26.50

Roasted Brick Chicken

STEAKS AND CHOPS
Aged 28 Days Prime Angus Midwestern Corn Fed Beef. Steaks Available With Bordelaise, Roquefort, Bearnaise Or Green Peppercorn Sauce

$4.75

Prime New York Steak

$45.50

Prime New York Pepper Steak

$42.50

Filet Mignon
with boef onions and bordelaise sauce

$38.50

Petite Filet Mignon (8 oz.)

$48.75

Double Cut Colorado Lamb Chops

$29.75

Double Cut Kurobuta Pork Chop
with washington blackberry sauce

$29.75

Fresh Chopped Beef Steak
with grilled onions

$55.50

Porterhouse Steak (24 oz.)

Vegetables

$7.00

Creamed Spinach

$5.00

Broccoli or Carrots, Steamed

$7.00

Green Beans, Steamed

$6.50

Zucchini, Sauteed with Onion

$6.00

Spinach, Steamed

$7.00

Sauteed Mushrooms

$6.00

Sauteed Spinach and Garlic

$8.75

Grilled Asparagus

POTATOES AND ONIONS

$7.00

Fried Onions

$7.50

Shoestring Potatoes

$9.00
For 4 $12.50

The Grill Combo

$7.00

French Fried Potatoes

$7.50

Lyonnaise Potatoes

$7.50

O’Brien Potatoes

$7.00

Hashed Brown Potatoes

$6.50

Garlic Mashed Potatoes

$6.50

Yukon Gold Mash

$7.00

Garlic Spinach Mashed Potatoes

$6.00

Baked Potato

Desserts

$8.50

Fresh Strawberry Shortcake

$9.50

Seasonal Berries
with crea

$8.50

Double Chocolate Layer Cake

$8.00

The Grill Apple Crisp

$7.00

Rice Pudding

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The Grill on the Alley

9560 Dayton Way Beverly Hills, CA 90210

310-276-0615

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2008 | Best Shrimp Louie

By Jenn Garbee | Mon, March 26, 2012

By Jonathan Gold | Thu, February 28, 2008

By Jonathan Gold | Thu, October 04, 2007

By Jonathan Gold | Thu, March 27, 2003

laweeklybestof | Los Angeles, CA | 71 Reviews

jewgirl | Los Angeles, CA | 11 Reviews