Share Wine Lounge and Small Plate Bistro

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  Share just recently renovated their menu around the beginning of 2013.
  
  Since I pretty much live at the DoubleTree as a traveling consultant, I feel qualified to make some suggestions.
  
  The buffalo wings are crispy. The sauce is flavorful with a little kick.
  The sticky ribs are spot-on if you get them in the restaurant. I haven't been as lucky with room service and found they come out too dry when I order them from the room.
  The portobello mushroom burger is a must-try. I hate mushrooms but I love this sandwich because of the wilted spinach and garlic... Just be ready to get messy.
  The heirloom tomato and mozzarella flatbread is satisfactory to this New Yorker, if a bit thicker and fluffier than I'm used to. It fed me for several nights (it kept fine in the fridge and tasted just as good cold). One order could probably feed four small women, or two men.
  The braised short rib was flavorful and delicious but a very modest portion. This would not have filled my husband's stomach. I recommend this if you're homesick and looking for comfort food.
  If you want a salad, I recommend Ying's Salad. The seared chicken salad was a little bland and disappointing.
  Their ricotta gnocci was too rich and made me ill.
  
  If it were my dime, I probably wouldn't eat here because the price does not reflect the food quality.
  
  The quality of sit-down waiter service can be hit or miss.
  
  They do have some good happy hour specials, like half-price bottles of wine on Wednesdays. I think they've jipped me on the special once or twice and charged me full price on the by-the-glass specials. It probably doesn't help that none of the staff ever seem to know what the happy hour special is.
  
  DON"T ORDER THE MARGARITA. I think I paid over $10 for the weakest, most disgusting margarita I've ever had, so now I stick with cheaper, harder to mess up wine options. I was a little nervous when "water" was one of the first ingredients listed for this drink... It was evident that water was the main ingredient.
  
  Oh, and if you're staying at the DoubleTree on business... If you eat in the restaurant, you can charge the meal to your room and it shows up as a nondescript food purchase. That adds to your HH points, too. Eating in the restaurant prevents the silly $3 room service delivery charge and automatic 18% gratuity.

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  Posted on 01.27.13 Sarah O.

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  I only ate here because of a work event, which took place within this double tree.  The tomato soup tasted like it was from a can.  The grilled asparagus was okay but it's hard to mess that up.  There are placed walking and driving distance from here that are better. Plus, Westfield is close by as well.  Maybe just for drinks.  They can't mess up beer, theoretically.

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  Posted on 06.19.12 Mary L.

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  Ate here for the first time and I thought it was great. I had a very large and tasty hamburger and a bowl of delicious broccoli soup. Service was very good but not hovering. Prices are reasonable and portions are a good size. I don't know about the small plates. Would go back there again.

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  Posted on 01.12.12 Vicki D.

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  I just stumbled upon this place because I was at the hotel for work.  I live in town and would normally never have come here.  But as it were, I found my self there with my husband and we were hungry and they had food.  The only thing I have to say is "STICKY RIBS."  Sweet, Asian flavors, big fat tender ribs with a  crispy exterior sitting on a bed of sweet potato shreds.  I want them right now.  I may have licked the plate.
  
  Nothing else about this place was appealing to me at all.  That's not totally true, the service was good, our waiter was nice and fast but the decor is awful and you feel like you are on a business trip.  It's a hotel lounge restaurant on all fronts except... the wonder, that is the "STICKY RIBS."

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  Posted on 11.26.11 Dorien D.

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  Let's call it 3.5 stars. What Share Wine Lounge and Bistro has that brings me in every day while I'm at the @DoubleTree Culver City is coffee. Espresso. Cappuccino. Latte. Caffeine. Bring it. Now.
  
  Share is inside the DoubleTree but seems to operate somewhat independently.
  
  I never expected to eat at Share but we were fumbling around late on a Sunday night (after 10) looking for dinner and we kept turning up closed restaurants (apparently Culver City is just far enough from LA that 24 hour joints aren't that common) so we opted to try the restaurant at the hotel where we were staying. Usually this is a move of desperation. Nothing against Share and in fact the early cappuccino's I've been getting are pretty solid, it's just that I've had some highly mediocre food at restaurants inside hotels.
  
  So it surprised me when we had dinner here around 11pm on a Sunday night that the burger with peppered bacon, cheddar and grilled onions was...really good. The plate of brushetta we shared was so-so. And the chicken quesadilla was also fine, nothing special. So if I were to eat here again I would definitely go with the burger. Solid.

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  Posted on 06.20.11 Jim W.

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