Dining Nightmares

Some dining commentary following the attempted Kitchen Nightmares makeover at La Frite in Sherman Oaks: "Ramsay's new decoration of the place looked like it came from Ikea. The appetizers had two pates which is redundant...The restaurant was reasonable enough that we could have large family dinners there for birthdays using 20 seats. Now, it is ridiculously expensive for a Sherman Oaks restaurant. This isn't Beverly Hills. 39.00 entrees etc. They had great mussels before, the new mussel dish is very small and was fine but not as good as their previous one. I give this Ramsay changeover a fail. He didn't keep what was right with the restaurant and instead gave it the standard French bistro menu with Beverly Hills prices. [CH]