Summer DineLA at Patina

DineLA, restaurant week, in Los Angeles is held in January and July every year. I've visited a few restaurants for DineLA in January (different years), but I haven't been very consistent at making a post and sharing photos. 

Patina Restaurant is located at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Downtown Los Angeles and serves Contemporary French Cuisine. I have been to this restaurant before, but I usually go in December (my birthday month) and I usually order from their regular three-course menu. While they do have their regular three-course menu and Chef's Tasting during DineLA, this was the first time that I came here to try out their DineLA five-course menu. Every meal I had here was amazing, remarkable and astounding. The wait staff and management were always amiable, charming and delightful. This is the only fine dining restaurant that I've been to more than once. While the food is amazing, I keep coming back mainly for their customer service. The wait staff, especially management, is charming and extremely sweet.

Normally, I prefer to make my blog posts about different events and places very unbiased so that readers can decide on their own terms to try (or not) these different events and places, but when I've been to the same restaurant and made a blog post more than once, it's hard to continue sounding unbiased. If you're curious, here is my first blog post and my second blog post.

Please forgive as I don't have the names to each plate or bite as not all of them were listed on the menu and I can never remember the names to all of them even though the wait staff always tells me.

rye bread (top) and brioche (bottom). I also tried the miso bread and fig (?) bread, but the brioche and fig were my favorites

Hokkaido Scallop Crudo

Braised Veal Tortellini

Wild Long Island Skate Wing

Binchotan Grilled Snake River Farms Ribeye

Summer Fruit Pavlova

Strawberry Sorbet

Patina

The Walt Disney Concert Hall is located in the heart of Downtown Los Angeles, home of the L.A. Philharmonic and Symphony. It was designed by Frank Gehry who built the concert hall with a modern decor. There are two options for dining at the Walt Disney Concert Hall: Patina and Concert Hall Cafe.

Side note: I had a $50 birthday coupon to dine at Patina as December is/was my birthday month. Guests can choose between a three course meal or a seven course meal. I chose the three course meal. Each course is "petite", but a three course meal was sufficient for me. I made reservations for "Table For One", but I plan to return again, hopefully with another guest who is willing to spend money for at a fine dining restaurant.

Patina is a very elegant, upscale French restaurant, founded by Joachim Splichal in 1989. Patina was originally located in Hollywood, CA. Then it moved to Downtown Los Angeles where it is now located the Walt Disney Concert Hall.

Patina Bar

Dinner Roll in a napkin beautifully made into a "flower"

Amuse Bousche - yogurt with kumquat

Sweetbread with cauliflower, fried capers, toasted pinenuts, and brown butter sayabon

Milk fed Porcelet - with crispy belly, mustard, medjool date, trotter and fuji apple

Apple Strudel (or apple pie) with crispy apple slices, and fennel ice ceam

(I can't remember the other items  that were mentioned to me and the menu description was very vague). 

Complimentary dessert after the dessert

Complimentary Birthday Box of Chocolates