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11 hours ago, HenryJames said:

 

 

Pretty scathing review as a whole. Ignoring presentation, the food was meh. And nothing more than rebranded normalcy (The condiments like “Electric Sauce” were the usual relabeled chipotle mayo and similar stuff). Not to mention that the execution was just bad and obviously, overpriced.

Given the pictures clearly more effort was spent on to go boxes over food itself.

 

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The place itself was unimpressive. Lame decor, ill thought out design. Dirty bathrooms (and only 3 STALLS for a restaurant that seats 250). Parking spots that don't face the drive in movie screens. Oh and those screens? Block an apartment.

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The last paragraph really nails it (emphasis mine):

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As the world’s richest man, Musk simply doesn’t have access to the realities of the service industry, or, for that matter, taking the family out to get burgers and milkshakes. When you leave this spot, you’ll have to ask yourself: When’s the last time this guy ate in an actual diner? As ever, his out-of-touch vision for what the 21st century can and should be is so hopelessly distant from human needs and habits that he has delivered a garish, soulless spectacle. One can scarcely imagine the amount of input he must have ignored from the industry veterans brought aboard for this project, indifferent to everything but his half-baked daydream of a Tesla charging lot where Tesla robots on roller skates bring you Tesla fast food while you watch towering footage of Teslas, a kind of living commercial for his trillion-dollar brand and pure antithesis of the humble neighborhood joint. The worst part is that he’s not even embarrassed. 

 

From the sound of it, the Tesla diner should be a monument to just how out of touch Elon really is.

ALSO - https://tesladiner.com/ LOL

 

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Two other good reviews:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/26/elon-musk-tesla-diner-hollywood

 

The general gist from this article is that like most things, Elmo sells something epic, delivers something ordinary.

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Jake Hook, who runs a Los Angeles-focused “Diner Theory” social media account, had described the Tesla Diner menu to me as “all over the place”, with a combination of “very fast food shlocky” items combined with sandwiches made with “bread from Tartine”, the luxury California bakery. The diner also offers a mix of “own the libs” and “we are the libs” options: on the one hand, “Epic Bacon”, four strips of bacon are served with sauces as a meatfluencer alternative to french fries, and on the other, avocado toast and matcha lattes. There was a kale salad served in a cardboard Cybertruck: welcome to southern California.

“Diners are kind of a reflection of the community, and it doesn’t seem to really be that,” Hook told me over the phone. “It’s like a diner-themed restaurant.”

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While locals seemed to be forgiving of the new diner’s glitches, some tourists were less impressed. Rick Yin, 32, who was visiting Los Angeles from China with his mother, had stopped by the diner on their way to the airport to “grab a quick lunch” that had turned out not to be quick at all. Yin had also been excited to see the Optimus robot in action, and had hoped the diner would be “more hi-tech”. What he had found was “a regular restaurant”.

“It’s all right,” he said, while still waiting for his food. After eating, he said he liked the Cybertruck boxes: “That’s the only thing that’s worth it.”

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I’d had plenty of time in the diner line to think about “retro-futuristic” experiences, and how good a description that was, not so much for this very ordinary diner, but for the rightwing political project that Musk had joined. We were now moving into a future that offered tank-like electric cars and on-demand drone deliveries, and also a resurgence of measles outbreaks and women dying from preventable pregnancy-related complications.

But continuing to function in the United States right now requires being very good at compartmentalization. I tucked away the cardboard Cybertruck lids to show my co-workers, threw away the Tesla waffles, and went on with my day. Nothing works properly here any more, but hey, it’s an experience.

 

 

https://www.wired.com/story/searching-for-humanitys-last-hope-and-a-taste-of-the-future-at-the-tesla-diner/

This article is all over the place, and gives a lot of voice to Elon stans. Just see the end of the article which I posted most of because 

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Renuka Veerasingam believes Elon Musk is humanity’s last hope. “I want to go to Mars, and he is going to take us,” she says. “Space is the final frontier. It’s in our DNA to find the final frontier—to keep going until we get to the edge.”

Though Veerasingam is 140 million miles from Mars, she is currently on the edge of Santa Monica Boulevard and North Orange Drive, in the heart of Hollywood, for the opening of the new Tesla Diner, modeled in the likeness of the same kind of retro-futuristic space station she one day dreams of inhabiting on the Red Planet.

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That vision came to life at exactly 4:20 pm Monday, a cherished stoner reference of Musk’s and one that probably peaked when he was still in college. WIRED’s photographer, Ethan Noah Roy, was there when the doors opened, meeting a man who had dedicated the last 13 years of his life to work at Tesla with the sole purpose of meeting Musk. “That has yet to happen,” he said.

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“I think this might be the new spot,” says Xavier Hardy, a realtor and DJ, who orders the chicken and waffles, and raves about the black pepper mayo sauce it came with. “I saw that the diner is 24 hours. I feel everyone is going to come here after events, clubs. All the celebs will probably be here. I’m surprised no other car companies have thought of this before. And the food isn’t too expensive either.”

I mention to Hardy that the hot dog—which has a rubbery texture and taste—costs $17 dollars (if you opt to add the cheese and Wagyu chili).

“For some people, that’s nothing though,” he says.

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So, what’s to love about the Tesla diner? Outside of the offering of superchargers, there doesn’t seem to be much replay value. Many people complain of long wait times—my own food takes 40 minutes to arrive—and though it’s good, it isn’t anything you can’t get at other diners, like Mel’s or Pann’s, across the city. From what I experience, the diner does seem like a decent place to find a certain ilk of community, if that’s what you're looking for—but overall the operation is gimmicky at best, and hypocritical at worst: a vision obsessed with the future but unable to let go of the past.

The sun finally comes out as Veerasingam waits for her food on the deck. “This is a MAGA diner. Why do I say that—literally you have a menu telling you how everything is made,” she says, and I don’t know exactly what she means. “I didn’t even know cheese is not real. Did you see that?” On the menu, Greenspan has detailed many of the ingredients he uses, most of them sourced from local farmers and brands, including Brandt beef (“from the Holstein cows of Brandt Cattle of Calipatria, CA”), flour tortillas (“made with heritage organic drought resistant wheat”), and a type of cheese called New School American (“made from aged cheddar, real cream and real butter without phosphates, starches, acids or fillers”).

Since the late ’80s, Veerasingam suggests, too many artificial preservatives have been added to food. “It’s all fake,” she says.

Returning to her earlier point, about the limitations of being on earth, she says there’s more out there. “If you're exploring the unknown, it's not about what anybody else has. Nobody knows. It’s a different kind of competition. It's not about money. Money cannot get you to Mars. It’s beyond money.”

But won’t you need money to get there, I ask.

“Yes, but it’s not going to be the be-all and end-all,” she says. “Why do we need approval to go to Mars? Cut the shit, all the regulation shit. We don’t want politics, but politics has unfortunately come to us,” she says. “Normal people, we just want to get on with our lives.”

Before we depart, I ask her what she thinks is at the edge, what she hopes to find at the final frontier? “Nothing,” she says. “It’s like a cycle. We will start at the beginning. It’s like the snake that eats itself. And that’s the meaning of life. But first we have to go.”

Sorry Veerasingam, you want to sound epic or something. You just sound dumb.

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54 minutes ago, Captain Ron said:

Two other good reviews:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/26/elon-musk-tesla-diner-hollywood

 

The general gist from this article is that like most things, Elmo sells something epic, delivers something ordinary.

 

 

https://www.wired.com/story/searching-for-humanitys-last-hope-and-a-taste-of-the-future-at-the-tesla-diner/

This article is all over the place, and gives a lot of voice to Elon stans. Just see the end of the article which I posted most of because 

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Sorry Veerasingam, you want to sound epic or something. You just sound dumb.

Renuka's IG: 

Community reply to the first story on there:

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And her webpage: http://www.renukaveerasingam.com/?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAafwD9XlAHPCE5-z4kAyEKhe0HINsUDy0tDFqSCiEPjyJbYRjrkdyhz23yPKMA_aem_F0sq2XaIHCCuSb-Emsl69w

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1 hour ago, Captain Ron said:

Sorry Veerasingam, you want to sound epic or something. You just sound dumb.

I agree with her, though. There shouldn’t be any regulations on space travel. Anyone dumb enough to hop in an unregulated rocket for a hundred million mile journey to colonize an arid rock with no water, no food, no atmosphere, and no magnetic field should be encouraged to do so immediately. 

Bon voyage, idiots!

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1 hour ago, BrickHorn said:

I agree with her, though. There shouldn’t be any regulations on space travel. Anyone dumb enough to hop in an unregulated rocket for a hundred million mile journey to colonize an arid rock with no water, no food, no atmosphere, and no magnetic field should be encouraged to do so immediately. 

Bon voyage, idiots!

 

Where have I seen that before? 

Titan Submarine GIF by GIPHY News 

 

 

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