clearman's north woods inn of la mirada

you have probably passed by it a million times. the snow covered restaurant off of the 5 freeway going towards la. it's right where the traffic always seems to start backing up entering norwalk and all points beyond. why is this section of the freeway only three lanes wide, when it should be about six lanes across? okay, that's the end of my traffic rant for now, but if any of you work for caltrans, can you please put in my request for more lanes on the 5 freeway? anyways,backto the snow covered restaurant at the valley view exit of the freeway. clearman's north woods inn seems to have been around forever. the truth is, it has only been in this location for 25 years now. yes, that's a long time in the restaurant business, but it really does seem like i have seen this restaurant since i was a kid. in those 25 years, my family and i have celebrated numerous birthdays, anniversaries, and graduations here. the reason f

do not go here!!!. we had never been to this restaurant and decided to give is a try the other week. the food was fairly expensive and just ok and the service was fine until we looked at our credit card!

our bill for two, with no alcohol was $80, and we gave the waitress a $16 tip. when we checked our credit card statement a couple of days later we had a charge for $1,680!! the waitress had changed the tip from $16 to $1600.00!

we contacted the restaurant manager right away and he said that he would look into it and getbackto us. he called usbacka half an hour later and said that he would fix it in an overnight batch to our credit card. he did not apologize.

the next day we checked our statement and nothing had changed. we called the manager back, and he said there was nothing he could do to fix the charge, because he did not receive the funds. he agreed that he charged us the $1,680; but that we should just call the #800 number on thebackof the card, he could not help us.

he never apologized for the inconvenience or anything; and was not willing to help us.

we did contact the credit card company and issued a complaint and after a couple weeks they credit usback$1584.

yes, everything here is excellent. i gobackjust for the cheese toast. be sure to have some!