The Palmira Bar & Grill

The new chef has done a great job of updating the menu and improving the quality of the food.
This is now a place that I look forward to dining in!

This is not Westchester, the Palmira Restaurant is one block from LAX inside the Concourse Hotel at LAX — A Hyatt Affiliated Hotel. The staff and the food are excellent. I will return ~

Well, this used to be good, and then they changed the menu. In fact, it used to be the only good thing about the Concourse Hotel, and alas, it is no longer. Overpriced, to boot. The steak frites – a common cut of meat served with fries and a bistro staple in France, where they understand what it is and what it isn’t – cost a WHOPPING $ 32. That would indicate, I should think, a good cut of meat and homemade fries, but instead it was a cheap cut and previously-​frozen fries. I am embarrassed for Hyatt, which this hotel and its restaurant will soon become.

Had the turkey burger and a brew. It tasted delicious and came with a handful of fries. It was an expensive meal for the amount/​quality/​atmosphere but I didn’t expect much else from a hotel bar.
I left with a full stomach so no complaints here.

Am I an outlier with 4 stars here?
On a Friday night, I ordered the cioppino. Reasonably priced (accounting for it being in a hotel restaurant) and well-​portioned. I also got takeaway calamari for munching in the room. The calamari came with a great aioli for dipping, but it was good by itself.
I feel like I didn’t have enough of the menu to give a full 5 stars, though what I did have was great.
Rich’s recommendation: this really isn’t as bad as the star level makes it seem, at least for dinner.

Typical overpriced hotel bar. The food tastes like reheated microwave meals and the service isn’t much better. How much does it cost to serve with a smile and acknowledge your guests?!

We had a 10-​hour layover at LAX on our way to Thailand, so we checked in at the Concourse hotel (2 min from LAX) and eventually made our way down to dinner at 5pm (it was 8pm to us!) at the hotel restaurant, Palmira. We looked on Unilocal for nearby veggie-​friendly restaurants and saw a few, but ultimately did not feel like leaving the hotel. Palmira is a nice, traditional american steak house-​type place, masculine/​conservative décor but very comfy/​cozy. We had some nice red wine, delicious bruschetta, tasty french onion soup, and the portobello mushroom stack with grilled veggies (zucchini, tomato, roasted peppers, squash, eggplant), lightly drizzled with a tangy vinaigrette dressing. Then for dessert a flourless chocolate confection. We had utterly excellent, attentive service. It is Monday and the place opens at 5 for dinner. At 5:01 we were the third table, and by the time we finished there were several tables filled. Pretty great experience for a long airport layover hotel dinner! We had a great time!

Wow. A lunch buffet here had almost no selection (seriously, two kinds of lettuce and one string beans, pasta and 2 sauces). This for $ 20.
Horrible deal. I’m appalled. «Buffet» generally implies selection. Oh, did I mention, the only thing on the menu for lunch was the buffet?
The string beans were very good. The Bolognese was mediocre and salty. Pasta was decent.
My complaint is the selection and the price. Not a good value. Really people. Close the dining room then.

I ended up at this hotel due to a flight delay, and although it’s nice, as a snobby vegan type, I wasn’t excited about eating in a hotel restaurant.
For dinner I ordered the vegetable stack, which looked lovely and contained an assortment of vegetables, but was drowning in vinaigrette. My first glass of wine was so bad I returned it (they had just opened it, so likely a bad bottle, it happens), but its replacement, a different Cabernet, was nice. The service by waiter Felipe was absolutely excellent. He could not have been more friendly and attentive.
For breakfast the next day, I got a fresh-​squeezed orange-​pineapple-​apple-​strawberry juice from the bar area and ordered an array of sides from the restaurant: hash browns, seared tofu, avocado, pico de gallo, and a hot tea with honey. I love how they offer fresh juice and smoothies at the bar, despite the ridiculous cost ($ 8.95?!). The food was ok to good; the large side of perfectly ripe avocado made it perfect. Tea is Tazo brand, served with an enormous carafe of hot water. I like not having to ask for refills. Service was good, although Felipe from the night before was a tough act to follow. Silvia, the extremely pleasant manager, appeared to stop by every table to make sure every guest was happy. The air conditioning was over zealous but otherwise the ambiance was nice.
Overall, I’d say you can get a decent meal for prices that are high but typical for a hotel. Service was excellent.

Two star rating is for the food, and menu experience.
I have to say that the jazz they have in the evenings is GREAT.
Firstly I ordered 2 glasses of wine and each one was unavailable. Then the wording of the menu was clearly written by someone whose first languages was not English.
I ordered a smoked chicken tortellini for $ 23. The menu read «3 jumbo tortellini» but the dish came out as mini tortellini. The smoked chicken, I’m pretty sure it came out of a can, texture was stringy and smushy. Clearly no smoking of any bird was involved. The sauce and pasta itself was rather bland.
My buddy ordered a $ 38 fillet mignon, and it was the thickness of a flat iron steak.
If you have another option go with that, but if you just want to chill at the hotel bar you’ll just pay more to get less.

Expensive, but tasty.
I had the huevos rancheros for breakfast here while visiting from Philadelphia. The dish was absolutely delicious and I scarfed it down in about 3 minutes flat. The next 30 minutes was spent flagging down servers for coffee refills and waiting what seemed like an eternity for our check. Now, I know life on the west coast is a bit of a slower pace than what us east-​coasters are used to, but I still don’t think that’s an excuse to give horrible service, especially with how expensive the food is. I won’t go out of my way to eat here again.

Only eat here if you have to. So-​so would be about the best thing I could say aBout it. Diner food would be the other. Avoid te Buffett.

My coworkers and I debated to go out or eat at the hotel. We decided to relax and eat here at the hotel and it was a fantastic decision! The salmon was light and amazing! The lamb is to die for! Great spinach salad! Wine selection wasn’t very big but you couldn’t go wrong with any of them. Wether you stay at the Radisson or not, this was a fantastic meal and not to mention, very reasonably priced!

Went to this restaurant at the LAX Radisson hotel to hear the jazz legends Lee Hartley & Les McCann, with the great drummer Alphonse Mouzon and others. Barbara Morrison popped in which was an extra unexpected bonus. As to the restaurant — nothing legendary there. The décor is dated and stuffy, as were the servers. The prices are high steakhouse prices. Now, let’s get to the food. OY VEY about sums it up. We ordered Caramelized French Onion Soup for me and a salad for my date. For entrées: Braised Short Ribs and Chicken and Cheese Tortellini.
From Wikipedia: French onion soup (Soupe à l’oignon) is an onion soup usually based on meat stock, and often served gratinéed with croutons and cheese on top. Although ancient in origin, this dish underwent a resurgence of popularity in the 1960s in the United States due to a greater interest in French cuisine
Now, my soup came without any croûton or toast and was not gratinéed (with a browned cheese crust over the bowl). Instead, there was slice of cheese that melted from the heat of the soup, floating aimlessly, poor thing, without any croûton to support it. The liquid itself didn’t taste very oniony but it was fair, plus they didn’t have any other soups. I called the waiter, who took it back and brought me the following: the lonely floating cheese slice was pushed down and on top of it, they plunked down two untoasted slices of bread and another slice of cheese. What I got now was a totally inedible slush, with almost no liquid in it. Back goes the server and now he brings me something similar to soup version #1, but with a tiny piece of untoasted bread under the slice of melting cheese.
As I’m trying to eat this «onion soup», our main courses arrive. The waiter says, «Because of this soup „exchange“, the kitchen made the entrées too soon. How about I put your food under a heat lamp, but just so you know, your beef will be a little bit dry.» Do I need to even add anything to that?! :)
When we eventually got our entrées, the sauce for the short ribs was cloyingly sweet, the garlic mashed potatoes never met any garlic in their short live, the vegetables were overcooked. As to the chicken and cheese tortellini, my date barely touched it. I tasted it and it was more like lumps of dough, I didn’t taste any chicken or any stuffing, and it was desert-​dry — no sauce or broth that tortellini should come in. As a poker player, I am a betting (wo)man and would bet those very expensive lumps came from a box.
No one came to check on us, no one offered us dessert, and once we finally got the $$$ check, no one came to pick up the credit card. We could have easily left without paying a penny, which is exactly what this meal was worth.