Encino Place

The guy working at the carousel insisted that he buckle my niece each time she rode and caressed her. Every time she came around he would talk to her. It made my sister and I feel uncomfortable. Do not take your children here! The carousel has no music either. This place is junky.

I really like the stores and restaurants located at this shopping center. My main issue is with the valet of the this complex. First of all, you are forced valet and pay $ 5 with the validation (make sure to get validation, otherwise prices are ridiculous). The people who work the valet are very rude and disrespectful towards the customers. My final straw was Saturday when I gave my car to valet, they gave me the option of doing the car wash for $ 20 cash. My car was in bad shape so I thought «why not?».
About an hour later I stood in line for a good 20 minutes being totally ignored along with like five other people because they couldn’t keep up. Not because they were short staffed, but because they were just taking their sweet time. I get my car back, and there are still all the existing water spots on the windows, some spots left behind in the interior. To make matters worse when he gave me my car back he didn’t give me my remote key so I drove off without the key, partly my fault, I guess.
I will return to the this shopping center, but I am totally willing to park blocks away just to avoid having to deal with the people working this garage.

Agree with other reviewers that the parking situation here is terrible! The valet is so slow and rude. They should just make it into an automated/​ticketed lot. Many businesses don’t survive here. Notice a lot of turnover. I’m sure the parking situation has a lot to do with that.

This review is about Encino Place, not the various stores and restaurantes that are there. Encino place is a nightmare to visit primarily because of the parking situation. You are forced to valet most of the day and the service is horrible. The people who run the valet service are rude and slow. This would otherwise be a decent place to visit, but I try to avoid it as much as possible purely because of the parking situation.

THIS PLACE IS HORRIBLE! The building signed a contract with the neighbors many years ago so that employees would not park all over the streets behind the shopping center. We have been arguing with them for the past months. They said on the phone they did not care. Clearly, if they can’t find parking for employees, they can’t for customers either. The neighbors are finishing putting up 2 hour parking and it will be closely monitored. Let’s see how many cars get towed…

We were there for a total of 10 minutes. Went upstairs to see if the nail salon was accepting walkins, they weren’t. Went down to coffee bean grabbed a coffee, got parking validated and went down to the garage. They had the audacity to charge us. even after they saw we were there for ten minutes. The woman was incredibly rude about it as well-​as if we were crazy for being shocked. IF I go back (there’s really nothing in that complex to give you reason to though) I will be parking on the street.

Seems like an otherwise chill mini mall, but the parking garage tried to gyp us out of $ 2 for being there all of 20 minutes! My friend and I went up to Soak Nails to see if we could do a walk-​in – they couldn’t, no problem – got drinks to-​go at Coffee Bean and went back down to retrieve the car where we were told we needed to pony up $ 2, even though we had the ticket validated at the coffee shop. There is ample meter and street parking in this area – didn’t the sign say first two hours free with validation? WTF?!

It has a nice, beautiful setting but that’s about it.
Went with my girl on a Sunday and it was pretty dead. They have a children carousel in the middle of the plaza which is great for little kids.
The types of shops and businesses don’t really go together in this plaza. Seems like a confused identity… Is it a shopping mall, or just a place for businesses and stores?
Another interesting note is that Tutti Frutti (yogurt shop) was closed on a Sunday… why?

great choices. nice and clean~

I always enjoy visiting the beautiful Encino Place shopping center.
This two-​story outdoor office and business center has great stores, restaurants, and plenty of parking in the garage.
They even have a children’s carousel!
Examples of some businesses include: The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf, CPK, Color Me Mine, Massage Envy and so much more!