Lei Lounge
The Lei Lounge in University Heights is a trendy new spot for drinks and tapas-style dinners. The setting is beauitful, with semi-private booths throughout an open air patio style establishment. In other words, basically the whole lounge is outdoors.
Thei r sepcialty is mixed drinks, with interesting, though trendy, drink specials like pomegranate martinis, blueberry martinis, and other sweet and fruity and tropical drinks. Their drinks are good, but they cost $7 and do NOT use top shelf liquor. Still, worth going in for a drink or two to enjoy the atmosphere.
The food menu is quite good, with an emphasis on seafood and traditional American dishes with a trendy flair. They serve seasoned sweet potatoe fries with balsamic vinegar, miniture kobe beef hambugers, wasabi mashed potatoes, and crab anything-you-can-imagine. Like the drinks, the food is good, but not as great as the price implies. Also, you will receive much better service if you are a gay male, than if you are straight and/or female.
Overall, I'd say it is fun to check out, but not a place where I'd become a regular.
Lei Lounge is open 5-10pm daily. Plus they are open for brunch on Sundays. I was going to look up the times for that, but the website took so long I closed it out.
I don't recommend visiting their website; it is incredibly slow and frustrating. They have a bunch of lame pictures in the background that move, and their interface is difficult to use (like little "feathers" you have to click to scroll the menu up and down inside the browser window, instead of just scrolling the actual browser widow).
Lei Lounge
4622 Park Blvd.
San Diego, CA
619-813-2272
www.leilounge.com
