Bavel
middle-eastern · Los Angeles
3.9 across 3.0k Yelp reviews; named by World's 50 Best and Time Out.
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WarningYou're getting an experience. Whether you needed it is up to you.
“3.9 across 3.0k Yelp reviews; named by World's 50 Best and Time Out.”
Bavel
middle-eastern · Los Angeles
3.9 across 3.0k Yelp reviews; named by World's 50 Best and Time Out.
Sources used
Signal confidence
WarningYou're getting an experience. Whether you needed it is up to you.
Paying for the Scene. Harry scores Bavel 84/100 for quality and 73/100 on the Worth It scale for Los Angeles. One caveat: You're getting an experience. Whether you needed it is up to you.
Bavel's got the editorial pedigree — a World's 50 Best Discovery nod and a #5 Time Out ranking — plus a 4.6 on Google and 4.5 on Tripadvisor that back up the hype. The Yelp number is the outlier, sitting at 3.9 on a review count that dwarfs Tripadvisor's, which reads less like a quality problem and more like Yelp's usual skew toward nitpicking at a $$$$ price point where expectations run high. For Ori Menashe's downtown follow-up to Bestia, that's a crowd mostly in agreement, with one source grumbling about the bill.
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