Home Turf is your typical LAX bar, overpriced, boring, and just not that good. There are not too many other options, especially if you want to catch part of a game before your flight. For a drink (not a quick drink because the place is usually full) and a bag of chips, this is your spot.
Review Source:This place is a fucking joke. Â It's not a sports bar, it's a shitty sports-themed front for those food-to-go kiosks.
For starters, our waiter seemed annoyed that he had to deal with customers. Â Next, we were blessed with the privilege of paying $14 for an average glass of red wine. Â But the real disappointment and shock came when he brought us our food. Â Instead of getting anything close to what we expected (normal, cooked food), we received pre-packaged replicas of what was listed on the menu. Â Based on some of the pictures and reviews on Yelp, this is clearly business as usual. Â If I wanted plastic-wrapped to-go food, why would I sit down at a place with a waiter and a menu?
When all was said and done, we paid over $50 for crappy food, average wine, and quietly surly service. Â The other dining options in the terminal don't seem to be that much better, but they can't be worse than this place.
Avoid this shithole at all costs and hopefully they'll go out of business soon. Â Capitalism FTW!
Horrible. There's flies flying around everywhere. Waiters were very slow. The food comes out in plastic containers pre made. Go to the mcdonalds in the other terminal. Would not go here again. The chips and salsa was just a bag of tortilla chips they opened on a plate, with a small container of store brought salsa..
Review Source:This place sucks! I could and should end my review right there... but I like to read my own words on a computer screen so I'll keep typing a bit more.
The hissy fit from the waitress as she was starting her shift should have been my cue to leave. The bar was not very busy at the time and we still sat for 15 minutes without being acknowledged. When she finally stormed over to take our drink order she made sure to ooze her foul mood over the entire place as she slugged her way between tables. We then sat for another 25 minutes waiting for drinks and to place our food order. We were right by the ordering station and bar... so I could quite clearly hear her hating on her job, coworkers and patrons alike. This lady hates life and could give Grumpy Cat a run for her money.
We ended up telling the bartender to cancel our drink orders and we left to find greener pastures.
Enter at your own risk.
They are out of quite a few beverages, including 2 tap beers, not too good for a sports bar. Unfortunately there are only 2 "restaurants" located in this terminal, so it's either here or Mexican food.
The atmosphere is like a typical sports bar, and tends to be noisy.
They appear to not have a kitchen, and their food comes in plastic containers from California Pizza Kitchen.
They do serve generous proportions though, which makes up for their faults.
News Flash Fellow Yelpers: Â Airport Bars charge a lot.
For all of you unclear on basic economic theory, it's a little something economists call supply and demand. Â Lots of demand for a limited product = high price. Â Coupled with the fact that you can't exactly get your alcohol anywhere else (i.e. a Monopoly) and well....
So you have two choices. Â Suck it up. Â Literally. Â OR DON'T PAY. Â This is a discretionary item, although perhaps not for some of you lushes, who think that it's your God-Given duty to lap alcohol from the teat of LAX just because you paid for a plane ticket? Â If you want to get your buzz on, Â upgrade to first class (only $100 for most Alaska flights), pay for a one-day pass for the Frequent Flyers lounge, or do what I do, and pop a few vicodins, chase them down with half a bottle of Robitussin, and let the flanging fun begin!
This was our watering hole for about two hours when our Spirit Airlines flight to LAS was delayed about 2hrs. Seeing as Spirit and other airlines tend to get delayed they might need to expand their seating to accomodate the other passengers. I say they have a "delayed drink special" where for every hour your flight is delayed you can get one free shot or beer and the airline that you're on has to front the bill. But I'm sure that's hoping for too much. On the other hand it might give incentives to those airlines that are delayed so often to get their acts together.
They serve a limited CPK menu but by the time we arrived 7:30ish the kitchen was either closed or didn't have any more food so we opted for Ruby's Diner.
I wanted to watch the espn morning show and what better place than a sports bar right? WRONG! I had to try and read Skip Bayless' lips while I listened to Mariah Carey and Coldplay being blasted on the radio. Totally typical for a sports bar right? And when I asked for the volume to be raised on the TV they informed me that it was against their rules.
Review Source:Stick to the beer - sounds like cocktails are crap, but I saw the barman mix some generous measures when I was there...
But WHY was I here? Virgin America delayed my flight 2 hours so rather than text me like Orbitz would these guys let me find out at check-in. Anyway, back to the review...
Turkey burger and mushrooms is the only meal with fries. That and a Bud Lite was my supper. It wasn't bad and with the Olympics on TV it was ok to kill 1 hour here watching people come and go, watching synchronized diving on tv. It set me up to sleep through my 5 hour red-eye flight. Priceless.
When is it going to end people? When are we finally going to stand together as Americans, and rebuke the harsh injustices that are going on in every airport across the nation. What am I talking about? High priced watered down drinks that are being sold in Airport Bar and lounges! I had the misfortune to stop by here on my way back to the bay area. And at my age, paying a ridiculous amount for booze in an airport is not something new, but when I asked the bartender for a bloody mary (to hopefully eliminate the painful hangover I was experiencing at the time), she informed me that the well price was $12.30, and that a premium bloody mary would be $15. Now I'm not one to use foul language around people I do not know, but I had to ask her, are you f*cking kidding me?!? She told me that all drinks were doubles, and that's why they were so expensive. Yet, after I ordered this cocktail, I found that trying to find the vodka in this drink was like trying to find a nice Pinot Noir on a Carrows menu! I'm not a violent or aggressive person by nature, but after finishing my beverage, I wanted to take the glass mug and smack it across the bartenders face.
This price gouging for booze in airport bars needs to stop. Listen up people! Obviously prices need to go up somewhat each year in order to go along with the natural inflationary flow that this economy was built on. Â When will it end? I'll tell you when, when one tired, broken down, weary traveler goes to an airport bar for a simple well drink to calm his nerves, and instead greeted with a $20 price tag for his 'bourbon & water," and instead of drinking the cocktail, he/she rips of all of their clothes, rubs the drink all over themselves, and proceeds to dry hump each and every customer within a 3 feet radius, stopping only to take a quick dump behind the bar, to produce the feces that he will hurl at the security officers until they are handcuffed and taken into custody by the local authorities. And you know what they are going to be mumbling to themselves in the squad car, "$20 for a well drink, WHAT THE F*CK!!!!!!"
Home Turf specializes in a few things. And what might those few things be? Well, I'll tell ya...
--Really loud sports fans
--Really crappy over-priced hot dogs
--One of the weakest Bloody Mary's I've ever had
--Tiny tables
--A really loud hot dog maker who barks out your order number in Spanish in an effort to confuse travelers. (It worked, people definitely looked puzzled)
--Sticky beer tables
--Did I mention really loud sports fans?
Yeah, it's pretty much Heaven on Earth and by Heaven On Earth I mean Satan's A$$hole.
PS: I didn't notice it earlier, but I just did now...their souvenir jacket is light blue denim. Nuff said!
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