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• NOT SURE WHY THE NAME "GRAIN LAB"?

"The Grain Lab." From the name: So not clear what they are and what they serve... Is it an O-So-Trendy Microbrewery or a Vegetarian Quinoa Palace? And that is so L.A. You're supposed to be SO into them and SO hip and SO in the know that no explanation is necessary. Walk in the door and still no... Well, apparently they serve food. Definitely not vegetarian, although there are a couple vegetarian options if you look really hard and they do serve quinoa (which I have not tried yet). I ordered "Seared Salmon" and when it arrived in a bowl I finally figured out that everything here is served in a bowl. Thanks for that up-front information. Ordered the brown rice and, well, although it didn't taste bad, it still looked like brown-dyed white fried rice (minus the egg)... Um, healthy? Quite frankly, I expected a little more from a place called "The Grain Lab." Gourmet 88 (Chinese food) has the best brown rice in Burbank in my opinion - this is nutty, chewy, husk-still-on kind of brown rice - and that is what I expected from a place called "The Grain Lab." That said, I thought the fresh-squeezed juices were excellent (Tropical Ginger and ABC) and slightly below market price for this area at $5 a pop.