Bistrotek Is Not Your Usual Airport Hotel Restaurant
UPDATE: Bistrotek is apparently closed for renovations. We will update you on when it reopens.
It used to be that if you were traveling and wanted a good meal, you’d go anywhere but an airport hotel. Usually those sorts of places were mere way-stations for travelers too jetlagged to care how bland or unoriginal the food was.
No more. Along with the renaissance of boutique hotels around the country, has come an equally impressive burgeoning of restaurants, bistros and brasseries, even at airport hotels like Avi Brosh’s monolithic black Custom Hotel on Lincoln Boulevard, just a little over a mile from Los Angeles International Airport.
That’s where you’ll find Bistrotek, Chef Paul Arias’s bastion of nouvelle comfort food, and the Westside’s answer to more showy restaurants farther east.
The sleek concrete-steel-glass design is reminiscent of the architecture at nearby LAX, only cooler and without quite so much...airplane smell.
Arias’s menu contains items familiar to any five-year-old, like fried chicken (with cumin mayo and avocado relish) and a bistro burger, but it also has some upscale options for us adults, like the three-cheese ravioli with bacon, grilled Mahi Mahi with white beans and kale, and my personal favorite, the fried green tomatoes with mozzarella and basil.
The menu might not be surprising, but hey, it’s nice to get a little taste of home while you’re on the road.
Insider Tip: The desserts are amazing. Go for the incredibly rich raspberry mascarpone French toast, or the homemade doughnuts with coffee ice cream.
[Photo: Bistrotek]
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