Two food blogs and a related Twitter reported seeing Dom and Elijah Wood at Gjelina on Saturday, October 24.

LAOCfoodie Twitter

LAOCfoodie saw Dominic Monaghan @gjelina 11:37 AM Oct 24th from txt

http://twitter.com/LAOCfoodie/status/5128403318

LAOCfoodie But @gjelina is a hobbit hangout, elijah wood eating w dominic. 12:09 PM Oct 24th from txt

http://twitter.com/LAOCfoodie/status/5129039428

L.A. and O.C. Foodventures Blog

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

A weekend of foodventures compressed into one day . . .

I've always been one to "Work hard, play hard" -- but when I get called in to work weekends that easily turns my mantra into "work hard, play hardER!" on the days I do have off. so that's exactly what I did this past Saturday [October 24], when I easily crammed 2-3 days worth of events and outings into one 24-hour period of fun, thrills and, of course, food.

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After that blissful drink, Caroline, Mei-Mei and I plopped our butts down at Gjelina (Sonja ran a little late). I’m not usually one to bag on restaurants, but what’s up with the attitude? From the curt hostess who sat us down in the most dysfunctional and fugliest table on the nearly-empty patio (turquoise, rusty AND wobbly) and not letting us switch to another four-top due to reservations (Caroline and I found that questionable, since she called a few days before and was told reservations allowed only for parties of six-plus.) And then there’s our fedora-wearing hipster waiter who was impatiently hovering around us early on while we waited for Sonja, providing abrupt replies to our questions interspersed with “are you ready yet?” and practically disappeared after getting the order down (I don’t believe he even checked up on our table.) Well, sorry if we weren’t celebrities or hobbits (I spotted Elijah Wood and Dominic Monaghan in semi-private area of the restaurant,) but a little TLC at the table goes a long, long way.

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http://la-oc-foodie.blogspot.com/2009/10/weekend-of-foodventures-compressed-into.html

Caroline on Crack Blog

Post Date : Wednesday, Oct 28th, 2009 at 9:25 am

Have you ever given someone a compliment and then wished you could take it back because they turned out to be an a-hole? Well that’s how I feel about Gjelina in Venice. I LOVED having dinner there, that scrumptious flat bread pizza! But when I had brunch there this past weekend with bloggers Active Foodie (Sonja) and LA OC Foodventures (H.C.) the experience was bad enough to make me question my own previous judgment.

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Yes, even though we got to enjoy the outdoor patio and the order of charred brussel sprouts was scrumptious, oh, and there was a Hobbit reunion (Dominic Monahan and Elijah Wood) in the nearby private lounge, that wasn’t enough to save the overall experience.

http://www.carolineoncrack.com/2009/10/28/brunch-at-gjelina-experiencing-the-mr-hyde-side/