Best Seasonal Restaurants in Glendale

Wonderful service - food was delicious.

I recently had brunch at Reunion with a friend and really enjoyed the food and ambiance. The menu had several options, and everything we ordered was delicious—fresh ingredients, well-prepared, and beautifully presented. However, the service left much to be desired. Despite having a reservation, we felt rushed from the moment we sat down. The staff pushed us to order quickly, and less than an hour into our meal, we were asked to leave. It took away from what could have been a relaxing brunch. While the food was great, the service made the experience feel unwelcoming.

Lovely food, impeccable vibes, complex cocktails, and a perfectly tailored wine list - nothing we had was anything less than perfect. Front of house staff is attentive and make excellent recommendations. Food highlights of the night were the endive salad, duck and onkonomiyaki rice.

Fantastic late night dinner at Essex Bar! Yellowtail Crudo was beautiful and a refreshing start to a wonderful meal, and Duck Pasta was perfectly prepared. Desserts, especially the flourless chocolate cake were standouts. Wife had the bone-in strip steak, which was huge and flavorful. Nice selection value wines. Will be back.

Excellent as always. Falansai's full tasting menu, what's now called the 'Super' Dac Biet, has been a regular feature of our birthday/anniversary dinner rotation for years now (I maintain you're doing it wrong if you only order ala carte here) and it's always a blast. The team does an amazing job of making really high-end, inventive cooking feel fun and casual. I have to give a huge shout-out to the beverage program as well; Falansai's wine list might have the most reasonable prices of any decent restaurant in New York right now (a five-course wine pairing for $65 in this day and age is nuts) and there's always something interesting and unexpected on offer. Even the really baller bottles (which you might have to ask to see the reserve list to know about in the first place), which are often on par with the best wine you can buy anywhere in the city, are sold at astoundingly fair prices. Falansai is a gem of an increasingly rare breed in NYC.