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| - First, how to find them: they are tucked into the back of the small strip mall with Magoo's Bar heading east on Flamingo before Eucalyptus Street. Second: the food is as good as it looks in the pictures. Why 3 stars? The service was really off that day.
I'm always crawling Yelp's pages for new places to eat lunch. We stopped by La Parilla for lunch after finding some great reviews. Our experience was a bit uneven. The Lab is a place that serves bar food, specialty hamburgers, with a mix of Mexican and Salvadorenan(?) items. I checked them out with the Health district and saw that they had a line of "A" grades, kudos to them. We decided to give them a try for lunch.
The Good: They have a really creative selection of burgers and a nice variety of food on the menu. The kitchen looked clean and the restaurant was neat. The food is great it looks just like the pictures on Yelp. It is a bit greasy, but I don't regularly eat fried foods. They give you a complimentary bowl of chips (homemade) and salsa while you wait for your order.
The Bad: We couldn't eat in and get back to work in an hour. The nice man who helped us at the counter wasn't very experienced on the cash register and the line went slowly. Halfway through our order, someone came in from outside and completed punching it in so that our original server could help out in the kitchen. All the while, the new guy was chewing gum like a cow chews its cud. I'm not kidding, you could sometimes see the gum in his mouth, it was pink, disgusting. The kitchen was backed up and there was a mix-up with our tickets and we got our food long after people who ordered after us got theirs. The server was very apologetic, I felt bad for him, he needed some help. Also, they need a new take out menu. The one that they have is hard to read because the type is too small.
I think that people will really like their food, but I hope that what I observed will spur La Parilla The Lab to make some changes to tighten up their front/back of house organization. I encourage you to try them, but you might want to phone in your order to make sure it's ready and can be eaten during your lunch hour.
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