Buggy Whip

Parking: On Site
Area Classic Area Classic, Cozy, Laid Back Casual Bistro Moderately noisy

Touted for its bone-in prime rib and Florida stone crab claws, Buggy Whip is an unregenerate blast from the past. In the front room, a crooner holds forth at the piano. It's a bit quieter in the sprawling back room, which looks as if the decor hasn't changed a hair since the place opened in 1949. The cuisine is "continental." Dinners come with soup or salad and your choice of potato. The clam chowder belongs to the wallpaper-paste genre served in old-style California places. Better get a green salad with Buggy Whip's Green Goddess dressing instead. The bone-in prime rib is just fine and could hold its own against that at Tam 'O Shanter in Atwater Village or Lawry's the Prime Rib in Beverly Hills. Steaks are nicely cooked though a bit short on full-bodied beefy flavor. That giant lobster tail dinner for $48.50 featuring a tail weighing in at a whopping 1 pound is for those who are more impressed with size than with taste. Dining at Buggy Whip vividly recalls just why continental cuisine has gone into decline.

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