Arclight Hollywood Cafe Bar

I like the bar here! Great alcohol selection, the bar tenders are always friendly, service is great, the drinks are good, and you don’t have to deal with obnoxious crowds, never had a bad time coming here

I love that there’s a restaurant within a movie theater. It combines two of my favorite things! It would be so much better if the food wasn’t made of garbage, though.
Sure, it looks like it’s going to taste delicious, but then you take a bite and realize it’s just another example of Hollywood magic. It’s actually scraps of old newspaper artfully painted to resemble lettuce, with an artificially colored corn syrup-​based chemical bath misted on top. The vegetable soup tasted like it came from an expired can found in the back corner of the 99 cents store’s dumpster. Nasty.
Never again.

You can’t take your drinks outside the bar. They didn’t tell us this until we ordered and paid for our drinks. What’s the point?
Second, I did not appreciate the way Arc Light sold out to Disney by eliminating Quentin Tarantino’s «Hateful Eight» «contracted showings» for Star Wars (Disney owns Star Wars). That was bullsh*t.

The food was surprisingly good, but definitely overpriced for the convenience.
Our order:
— Kobe Beef Bolognese — Good
— Crab cakes — Fantastic, but pricy and small portion
— Ahi tuna Banh Mi — I’m Vietnamese and Banh Mi is in my blood. I’m purely offended. Never in the history of banh mi has anyone tried wedging ahi tuna in a baguette and throwing some half assed pickled vegetables on it with some cream sauce then calling it a «banh mi». That’s pure laziness. Banh mi consists on layers of Viet flavored fillings such as pork prepared in numerous ways; juicy pork meat ball (xiu mai), bar-​b-​que (thit nuong), shredded (bi) and pork roll (cha lua). Cold cut combinations (pork roll, ham, and/​or head cheese), grilled chicken (ga nuong), sardine (ca moi), scrambled egg (trung chien) and vegetarian (chay) are just a sampling of the plethora of possibilities one may be offered on the menu. But not at some café at a movie theatre. No… no, no, no, a million nopes.
Don’t justify the name because all you did was pickle some carrots and throw ahi tuna on a baguette. Please respect the banh mi and go back to the basics.
The service was decent considering the cafes location plopped in the heart of Hollywood. I wouldn’t expect my server to be attentive. No, not ever. Especially in Hollywood. My server was probably getting ready for his next audition or something because I felt completely ignored and rushed. That was my mistake choosing this café. I should’ve gone to Jimmy Johns down the street and saved $ 50.
Tl;dr: save your money, walk to Jimmy Johns

The ArcLight Café Bar is surprisingly yummy.
It begins with the ½ burger w/​swiss, bacon and mayo. The burger is accompanied by a side of kettle-​fried fries and chipotle ketchup.
The bar has plenty of mixed drinks that are worth of the price tag; most notably «The Lobby Boy» themed drink from The Grand Budapest Hotel.

The worst Chinese chicken salad I have ever experienced. Bland and oily. In fact so oily you could use it for a few vehicles! So if you like the texture of oil with no taste, you will love this salad. The service was also very lacking. We rarely saw our waiter, and had to go get up to find him twice. I asked for another dressing, hoping it would help give the salad some taste. I waited until all my friends completed their somewhat adequate meals. I only received the dressing after a friend went to find the waiter. After all that, the salad could not be saved, it was still tasteless. A very disappointing meal.