Banana Leaf and Beach Cities Social has a split personality
Those who read my columns on a regular basis may have noticed I’m rarely the first to review a restaurant. This is deliberate, because as much as readers may want to know about a new eatery, what they’re doing the day they open may not reflect the long term experience. The chef may discover an item they love is too time-intensive for a rushed kitchen, or too weird or too pricey to catch on with their clientele. The servers have just met each other and the kitchen staff, and in the early days they’re more likely to fumble the handoffs. An early review is likely to be a hatchet job on a place that just needs time to find its groove. One restaurant has been a special case, in that I have postponed a review three times. I was just about to write up Banana Leaf when they moved from South Redondo to a spot on Artesia. I was going to review that one when they moved back to a different location in South Redondo, and announced an ambitious new concept in which they would serve separate Indian and American menus. I went again and held off because while the food was very good, the rest of the experience was so chaotic that I figured that they needed more time to work it out. They still…
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