Dudley Market

A restaurant full of energy. From the chefs to the service staff, the owners, and the music, everything is charged with vitality. The dishes are fantastic, and the fish is freshly caught by the owner. The wine and champagne selection is good, and you can have any wine from the shelf chilled on ice. Fantastic.

STAY AWAY!!! Dudley doesnt take reservations so we put our name down with the extremely rude hostess (this will be a theme here) told us its "technically" 2 hours but likely 45 minutes because everyone puts their name down then never comes back. We show up 30 minutes later to the hostess not even giving us the time of day to give us an update. We brushed it off as maybe they were busy so we went inside and bought a bottle of wine to share amongst the 4 of us while we wait. Within the following two hours, we proceed to socialize amongst the others waiting and it actually turned into a great time and made some new friends. After almost 2 hours, we go back to the hostess to ask for an update and we get in an EXTREMELY annoyed and rude tone that there are 6 tables still ahead of us and all of a sudden, she never claims saying 45 minutes! At this point, we are willing to wait it out only to go inside and try to buy another bottle of wine to which we were refused service because we were "too drunk and someone had complained about us (the people we were talking to asked the hostess if we can join their table so no one complained about us). After standing for 2 hours outside, the only thing drunk about me were the soles of my feet crying for help. The manager then comes out to tell us they can "offer some french fries or something" while we wait but they cant serve us because we almost tipped their heater over. A complete and utter lie stemming from this hostess who got offended for us asking for an update (literally her job). As other reviews state, the customer service here is worse than a jack in the box. It is shocking the owner allows this and I would recommend staying completely away from this place.

You usually have to wait a little bit but its worth it. Everything on the menu is done well, including the best burger in LA and fresh sashimi, crudo, and a selection of oysters. Owner is a nice guy as well and knows what he is doing with the place. Best not so hidden gem right in the heart of Venice.

This place is an absolute Dud. Restaurants like these are overly focused on being Instagram famous, centering around one dish that they do well. In their case, its their burger... which was nonexistent when we went. Wife and I came for date night to see what this place was all about. We had a reservation, we fasted all day, and dressed up to try this famous burger. The restaurant instead decided to sub their regular menu for a "pop-up" menu, which only had a few items on it. I watched as about 5 couples stormed out after learning this. Almost every party was in disbelief. I was so embarrassed for these servers who had to explain this to everyone. We reluctantly stayed, because we were starving drove all the way over there, and paid $20 to park. Not much to choose from so we ordered the fried oysters and crab louie sandwich. What a joke. Those were the worst fried oysters I ever had. Clearly pulled out of a jar, overly panko'd with tooth-breaking crust and no meat. The sauce was awful - not sure what they were trying to do there. The crab sandwich was boring. Nothing special there at all. They only had one red wine by the glass and it was trash. When a restaurant is hyping up their menu and people are making reservations to try it, they need to give a heads up to their patrons if they plan to become a totally different restaurant that day. It s a shame that I will never try that burger because I cant trust them to serve it.

Very fun atmosphere, but tables are a bit too close to one another and it’s unbelievably loud. Felt like I had to yell across the table. Nonetheless, the Dudley burger, fish tacos, gochuchang hiramasu crudo, scallop crudo and miso glazed squash are all phenomenal.

150% worth the wait- but don’t be like me, book ahead! Neysa took such good care of us!