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Bottega Louie Restaurant and Gourmet Market is a unique hybrid of dining and gourmet retail locatedin Downtown Los Angeles. Bottega meaning shop reflects the qualities of the quintessential Italian cafe. Crown moldings, brass applique, marble floors and banquette-style seating craft a traditional yet sophisticated atmosphere. Bottega Louie boasts a 185-seat Restaurant, Pizzeria, Full Mixology...
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Editorial Reviews from the web
It might seem slightly premature to proclaim that Downtown L.A.'s restaurant revival has finally found its pi?ce de r?sistance with this expansive Italian commissary and gourmet market, but we're willing to take that chance. Taking up the entire corner block of Seventh Street and Grand Avenue, this sprawling space of glassed-in gorgeousness awash in white is both a restaurant and a market, a...
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Other Reviews from the web
Heard about this place from everyone at Citysearch the last few months, tried it out tonight before going to see Arias with a Twist at the Red Cat (fantastic, too!). Massive room with high ceilings and all white minimalist decor, rest of seating etc looks like an italian cafe style. Food is yummy... we tried the pizza, the chicken milanese, the arugula salad, the the mussels. Everything was...
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Posted by jay2002
on December 08, 2009
Like this place, cool ideas and changes to traditional Italian...
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+ Interesting Take on Italian
LA's most ridiculous dining experience. Pretending to be New York and looking silly at it! NO BUZZ just NOISE! A beautiful space with great looking food that may as well be catfood because you can't sit and enjoy it unless you are a 20 year old air head! So noisey that you can't hold a conversation, can't hear the waitress and can't hear yourself think let alone put down a plate of food. The...
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