"What It Is: An upscale Southern restaurant in The Beverly Center Perfect For: Big Groups, After-Work Drinks For this week’s edition of Which New Restaurant Opened Inside The Beverly Center, we checked in on Yardbird. Located on the ground floor of the forever-being-renovated mall, this upscale Southern restaurant originally from Miami has a nice-enough space, but unfortunately, the food just isn’t very good. The restaurant, which also has locations in Vegas and Singapore, is best known for its chicken and waffles. Here, it’s not a terrible dish, but it’s also one you aren’t going to remember in a half hour. And the same goes for everything else on the menu. The Verdict: If you work at Cedars and need a corporate environment for after-work drinks with coworkers, Yardbird will do the trick. Otherwise, you can skip it." - jess basser sanders, brant cox, brett keating
