This is a constant issue for me…Is this restaurant hot right now because it’s good? Or because it’s hype? It’s not until I eat there that I can determine that…even Yelp reviews contain a whole lot of hype sometimes. It is about the most truthful that I can find though. There’s always someone to speak the truth in a review (or it seems like it at least).
Swingers-ahh, Swingers-with a name like Swingers, you would think, this is going to be one hot place. A friend previously warned me though, that this place is all hype. I ate there twice in one day last week. Why you ask? Or maybe you didn’t ask me that. The first time I ate there in one day, I had a turkey meatloaf with spinach and mashed potatoes and gravy. Nothing about it was good…the spinach actually tasted like lighter fluid to me (not sure how that would even happen). I did have one item that was good though; broccoli soup. I’m assuming it was from a can though.
Why’d I go back? I’m getting to that now, I just needed to stall a bit.
I had this feeling that the reason people liked this place so much was for its desserts. I mean, when you get in there you see cupcakes everywhere and they look great. They look Sprinkles great…they don’t taste Sprinkles great though. And the brownie ice cream sundae was absolutely terrible. Again the only saving-grace moment I found was in something that was likely spooned out of a can; the hot fudge was awesome…
Seriously though, when you can’t even get the hot chocolate right, and you’re a diner, you’re probably all hype. In this case, it’s true. Even the service is terrible. The first server was really nice, and sweet, and on top of her game, but the second server we had was terribly slow, and unattentive. The host was very odd toward us as well.
Oh, and finally, this was in the Swingers in Hollywood (just off La Brea and Beverly) and not the one in Santa Monica — haven’t eaten there yet, but I will when my sister comes to town. She likes Knocked Up and wants to check out Swingers in Santa Monica because that’s where Seth Rogen had breakfast with Catherine Heigal. I must confess, this is why I had any interest in the first place.
