{"id":6747,"date":"2012-03-12T03:26:55","date_gmt":"2012-03-12T07:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/?p=6747"},"modified":"2012-03-12T03:26:55","modified_gmt":"2012-03-12T07:26:55","slug":"dining-cheebo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/dining-cheebo\/","title":{"rendered":"DINING:  CHEEBO"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>CHEEBO<\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As my dining companion on a recent night at West Hollywood eatery Cheebo stated, it should be called \u201ccheapo!\u201d  Not because it&#8217;s inexpensive, but rather the opposite\u2014they jacked-up the prices on us, while we ate!<\/p>\n<p>I had always heard about the place, and thought it was supposed to be a hip, cool cafe.  So, we were happy to finally try it after a near-by screening.<\/p>\n<p>The ambience was okay, and, of course, I loved the old school paper-to-color-on and crayons on the tables.  The host was also amiable enough, but the niceness ended there.<\/p>\n<p>The food was mediocre, at best, but what they did with the bill is shameful.  Here&#8217;s the scoop on that:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/Unknown9.jpg\" title=\"Unknown\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6749\" title=\"Unknown\" src=\"http:\/\/www.itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/Unknown9.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"281\" height=\"179\" \/><\/a>I ordered the pasta with sausage, which the host\/waiter said was a great choice.  I was watching the guy next to me slurp up spaghetti and my mouth was watering.  But mine was far form appetizing.  First of all, I hadn&#8217;t realized that what I ordered was rigatoni, as opposed to spaghetti, so that one was on me.  My bad.  But it wasn&#8217;t long sausages in red sauce, which I couldn&#8217;t have known without the guy telling me, which he didn&#8217;t; it was ground-up sausage with cream sauce!!!  Ugh.  What a nauseating combo!<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t want to waste food by sending it back, so I asked the busboy if they had any red sauce I could throw on top of it.  He brought me a small dish of sauce, and it was delicious!  It would have tasted better without the cream sauce underneath, but oh well.  When the waiter saw it, he told me that I could have ordered it with red sauce to begin with, but how was I to know???<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, I had to ask for bread, which should have come without my asking, and with my pal&#8217;s salmon, too.   My friend was exhausted, so I asked for the rest of my pasta to be packed-up, and could they please put more red sauce on it?  He then began to whisk the bread away, but I said I needed it to finish my meal at home.  Very surprisingly, he didn&#8217;t even include new bread!!!  He just put the same portion in the package, even though he had already bussed it!  Kind-of gross.<\/p>\n<p>But here&#8217;s the best part (and by \u201cbest\u201d I mean \u201cworst.\u201d):  He charged us four extra dollars for the sauce!!!  Which should have been on the pasta to begin with!!!  I could have just sent the whole dish back, and ordered something with red sauce, but I was kind enough to not waste their food, or the chef&#8217;s time, and for that, they charged us extra!  In reality, four dollars isn&#8217;t much.  But it brought the total for a plate of not great pasta up to $20!  That&#8217;s Dan Tana&#8217;s figures!  The spaghetti at Scarpetta in Beverly Hills is considered outrageous at $24., but it&#8217;s also one of the town&#8217;s top destination eateries.  Cheebo is a little casual, stop-by type of place, and should not equal those others in price.<\/p>\n<p>And my friend ordered just a piece of  salmon, which the waiter said is \u201ca side.\u201d  So, she asked for a side of spinach, too.  He charged twenty-four buckeroos for those tidbits.   My friend has never said anything about a restaurant&#8217;s bill ever.  But she was pretty appalled over this situation.  Not upset, just appalled.<\/p>\n<p>So, to recap: Cheebo is outrageously expensive and nothing special.  And not at all what I expected.<\/p>\n<p><strong>No info necessary.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHEEBO &nbsp; As my dining companion on a recent night at West Hollywood eatery Cheebo stated, it should be called \u201ccheapo!\u201d Not because it&#8217;s inexpensive, but rather the opposite\u2014they jacked-up the prices on us, while we ate! I had always heard about the place, and thought it was supposed to be a hip, cool cafe.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/dining-cheebo\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-los-angeles-restaurant-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}