Cafe at Getty Center

We went on a weekday midday for lunch w a reservation. We were seated right away and the service was top notch. The food was also great and the view, the space were all great. But the mark up on the bottled beer was a bit out of the ordinary ($15 for a bottle of beer!!).

I hadn't been to the restaurant in a number of years. I kind of forgot about it but once there I remembered how very delicious all of the food is. It's very very good service is lovely and so is the setting. I was disappointed that they don't validate your car parking because of the two people come separately they're each gonna pay an additional $25 after having a meal there and I think it should be included when you go to that restaurant with a reservation. Thank you.

Lovely ambience surrpunded by great views. Food was tasty, service attentive but not overbearing or fawning.

I rated the restaurant at the Getty Center a little less than outstanding because the restaurant knew it was my birthday, and wished me so, but offered nothing whatsoever, not even a cookie. That's unusual for any restaurant, let alone one that is high-priced like this one.

A worthy compliment to this particular art at the Getty center.  the food was excellent, although pricey, the view was spectacular, the service was a bit slow.

Nice food, but for the price, could be elevated a bit. Great service and a spectacular location, of course!

The steak salad was delicious. It was far better than I had been led to believe it would be from reading reviews. It was really wonderful with a large helping of flavorful thinly sliced steak and a variety of grilled vegetables and greens as well as some really interesting thin fried onion rings. The chocolate dessert was unreal. It was covered with a crunchy chocolate shell and smooth chocolate and flavorful caramelized cream layer inside, and chocolate crumbs as a base. It was all outstanding. The weather was rainy but the view of the much-welcomed rain falling was very pleasant. Later the sky cleared enough that the entire City of Los Angeles was visible from the Getty outside terraces.

The Restaurant at the Getty was good. The service was excellent - they were prompt and very professional. The Ahi tuna on avocado was delicious. Quite fresh and tasty. However, the lemon Fettuccine was just OK. It didn't have any thing but peppery sauce to go with it. No tomatoes or vegetables of any kind. If it wasn't for the peppers it was quite bland and the noodles thick and overcooked. And my friend couldn't eat the peppers so it was even more bland for her. They offered shrimp to go with it, but it really needed something else. The two desserts we got were OK - the chocolate cake was pretty sweet and the candy shell crust was good. The strawberry cube was weird. It has sesame seeds in the shell to look like a strawberry! It wasn't very tasty. But it was a pleasant place, nice view and relatively quiet.

I had an exceptional luncheon experience with two elderly guests. The service was friendly and attentive (shoutout to Arwen), the food was delicious (the ahi and the cobb salad were winners), and the view, of course, was fabulous. And onsite at the Getty Center that day was a colorful celebration of Indigenous People's Day, with dancing, music, storytelling and poetry readings. A total Win-Win afternoon.

The food (mushroom soup and a delicious salad) was perfect as was the setting. The views from the patio are spectacular. It was a perfect place to lunch while visiting the Getty.

Outstanding service and food. We each had a cocktail, so it was pretty pricey, but absolutely worth it. If I went back again, I'd skip the cocktail and just enjoy the food. Overall, a fabulous experience.

We ate at 2pm outside, with only 2 other tables occupied, and a smattering of customers inside. Service was ok, (particularly from the runner), though our server was slow at times. The food was uneven - the bread plate is good, mushroom bisque quite good, pasta was a solid though unremarkable dish, but the "balsamic grilled steak" salad was overdressed with a tasteless mix that had no hint of balsamic, was limp, was mixed too far ahead, and came with clearly pre-cooked and refrigerated beef. For a $34 item, it would have made a big difference even to have quick-fired rare-cooked steak to serve warm on top of a freshly-dressed salad. And for a few extra dollars, the Getty could source local blue cheese. Luckily our vegan friend did not accompany us, as there was not one vegan item on the entire menu - the Getty should be able to do better than an Impossible branded burger minus both the cheese and the brioche bun, or a single salad with the feta removed. A flavorful truly vegan option should be easy with the bounty of California at the Getty's doorstep. Overall, everything was only fine... we wish it had been exceptional.

We had a fabulous dinner overlooking the Getty museum grounds. My husband ordered the Branzino and I had the pasta dish, both of which were phenomenal. We also had the Ahi tuna as an appetizer and the strawberry cake dessert. The food is always fabulous, creative, and flavorful.

Great food, wonderful service in a very pleasant dining room with expansive views and civilized diners. No rowdy children or tables of loud obnoxious people.

This venue consistently delivers its well deserved excellence in food, ambiance (killer view) and service.