Simonette At Palihotel Culver City

Brunch was great. beautiful place. that was delicious.

Eating was very disappointing. ratatouille was not what a ratatouille should be. not authentic French at all.

They decided to close and did not tell us or cancel our reservation. the manager was very rude about that she just told us we decided to close, bye. no excuse. very strange experience

Because of rain, the half of the restaurant was closed. her terrace was not covered. so there were not enough tables to host the diners. our 8:30 reservation was placed at a 9:30 place to leave the time of the cook and a third of the menu was not available. shortly after the manager left. the bar was a complete chaos. the dance floor was flooded so that there was no dancing or hors d’oeurves for the soiree. Usually the restaurant is very good.

Servers were very nice and good, but were overwhelmed due to obvious mismanagement and poor planning. Since newer ownership the food quality has gone down a bit but prices have gone up. Spent a lot of money here for NYE and definitely did not have an experience that lived up to expectation. Missing what Simonette used to be like, will not be returning. The “Penicillin” cocktail is real tasty though.