content: ***The food at The Palm Restaurant was not that great and the service was awful on our visit***\n\nI have been to The Palm Restaurant in Downtown Los Angeles and I did not enjoy it that much.  We went for lunch and I had their steak frites and, unfortunately, they were using really poor quality beef (a New York Strip but not a good one).  You do have to use less expensive beef than dinner to serve steak but still achieve a reasonable lunch price, but most restaurants like Lucques do not settle for lower quality; instead, they just showcase a cheaper cut like hanger steak.\n\nSince I went to the Downtown LA Palm for lunch, I did not get a chance to try their signature Prime steaks.  I could have tried them at my recent trip to the Las Vegas location (The Palm is located in the Forum Shops at Caesars Palace), but I opted for one of their other signature items instead--lobster.  I had their jumbo lobster tail and it was actually pretty good.  The lobster was huge--it was almost a pound--and the lobster meat was good--fresh, moist, lightly sweet, and fairly soft.  The seasoning of the lobster was also good--flavorful with a little bit of spice but not overpowering.\n\nAlmost everything else was not good though.  The crab cakes were soft and mushy.  The baked clams were bad.  The clams were too small (very unlike the rest of the food here) and the clams were just rubbery and kind of bland.\n\nThe Jumbo Shrimp Bruno was surprisingly good though.  This was shrimp francaise sauteed in a butter sauce.  The shrimp was incredibly soft and while I am not a huge fan of restaurants that go overboard with the butter, the richness and butteriness of this dish really worked.\n\nThe sides ranged from just okay to bad.  I do not really like creamed spinach, but this one definitely had the creaminess and richness that creamed spinach fans would probably like.  The asparagus fritti (deep fried asparagus) was fine.\n\nThe hash brown potatoes were also okay, but they were nothing really special.  The green beans were bad.  They were overcooked and bland.  Maybe someone on the table asked for them to be served plain because they definitely seemed to be missing the garnishes of pancetta, pepper flakes and pine nuts.\n\nFor dessert, I tried the warm bag of doughnuts and they were very dense.  The doughnuts came with dipping sauces including chocolate and raspberry.\n\nWhile I did not try any of the steak here, the steak did look good.  Some of the cuts looked a little small, but the cooking on the meat seemed to be very nice.  The center of the filet I saw was nicely red and juicy.  My friend said the temperature of the steak was nearly perfect, but the seasoning was not that great (a little bland).\n\nPrices were very high.  Las Vegas restaurants tend to be overpriced and given that The Palm features high quality beef, it is no surprise that the food here is very expensive.\n\nService was awful.  While I would say the food was in the mediocre to occasionally decent range, the service we experienced was very bad.  Our server did not seem to be a server at all because it really felt like he did not know what he was doing.  For example, we were a big table and he took the first two drink orders, left and then came back with just those two drinks.  It looked like he was going to continue to do this (I guess because he only had two hands), but we stopped him and told him to put in the whole drink order at once.\n\nPutting in our dinner order took forever because our server just seemed to disappear for long stretches of time.  And when he was present, he had an abrupt approach that was a little off-putting.  He also did not seem to be getting everything down, but the restaurant was also very, very loud.  The food itself came out at a decent pace so maybe service would be better under a different server.\n\nAs mentioned, the restaurant was quite loud.  The atmosphere was kind of like an old-fashioned supper club.  Similar to the LA location, they have celebrity caricatures on the walls.\n\nGiven that The Palm has multiple locations throughout the country, I would not suggest heading here first for a high quality steak or a big lobster.  Carnevino in The Palazzo offers very high quality steaks and the sides and starters are much more unique and delicious than The Palm (plus, that restaurant is more unique to the area).  I think The Palm is really a last option given the high prices, the just okay food and the fact that it is a pretty big chain.\n\nAs mentioned, The Palm Restaurant is located in the Forum Shops at Caesars Palace.  The Forum Shops offer both free self and valet parking.