La Brea Bakery

Seriously lame. First of alll, I should have run screaming from the premises when I saw, on the menu, "Reuben . . . with coleslaw" COLESLAW!?!? Seriously? That's not a Reuben!! OY VEY! Or, more likely for my WASP ass to say WTF!!?!!?!?!!

Opted for the Chopped Salad. Serious disappointment. A few stringy pieces of lettuce and raddiccio, a couple cherry tomatoes, hard boiled egg and two or three meager shreds of salami. What, WHAT?!! $6.50 and you can't give me a bit more salami? You could see the bottom of the bowl thru the thinning salad tossed in a bowl. Really substandard.

Maybe because this is an LA chain - that's what passes for a salad there in the land that invented anorexia? Puzzling.

The soups looked sort of appealing, but I'm not likely to go back here at all.

If my lunch companion hadn't been so charming, I'd be lobbying to get this hour of my life back. Don't even go here if you're inside Macy's and starving to death. Brave the Foodlife food court before you think of coming here.