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The Consolidated Greater Los Angeles Area Restaurants Thread (2015 - Date)
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It's almost dineLA Restaurant Week time (Friday, January 13 - Friday, January 27th).
This year, some of the best restaurants in the Los Angeles area offering special menus priced at $95 - $100.
Details are at this webpage: dineL.A. Exclusive Series Starts This Friday
This year, some of the best restaurants in the Los Angeles area offering special menus priced at $95 - $100.
- Alexander's Steakhouse
- CUT By Wolfgang Puck
- ink.
- Melisse
- Patina Restaurant
- Providence
- Spago Beverly Hills
- The Arthur J
- The Bazaar by José Andrés
- The Royce | Wood-Fired Steakhouse
- Wolfgang Puck at Hotel Bel-Air
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It's almost dineLA Restaurant Week time (Friday, January 13 - Friday, January 27th).
This year, some of the best restaurants in the Los Angeles area offering special menus priced at $95 - $100.
Details are at this webpage: dineL.A. Exclusive Series Starts This Friday
This year, some of the best restaurants in the Los Angeles area offering special menus priced at $95 - $100.
- Alexander's Steakhouse
- CUT By Wolfgang Puck
- ink.
- Melisse
- Patina Restaurant
- Providence
- Spago Beverly Hills
- The Arthur J
- The Bazaar by José Andrés
- The Royce | Wood-Fired Steakhouse
- Wolfgang Puck at Hotel Bel-Air
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Bon Appétit named it as one of America's best new restaurants for 2016 (No. 05) and Jonathan Gold gave it a rave review in the Los Angeles Times.
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"Now Boarding" Restaurant, W. Hollywood, CA
Has anyone eaten here or had drinks. Sounds like it would be a great place for FTers
A friend of mine in LA posted about it recently on his blog.
"Last night I had a much more pleasant flying experience, at a lounge called Now Boarding, in West Hollywood, designed with a glamorous 60s airline theme. Lots of gold fixtures and vintage luggage, and a “steward” pushing an old drink cart around the place, making martinis at tables.
The bartenders wear captains’ uniforms, harkening back to a time when our pilots flew drunk and we liked it. The drink menu resembles a safety card, which is a nice touch.
Adding to my personal, cool experience was that I happened to be there with the great-great granddaughter of Juan Trippe, founder of Pan Am. (Alec Baldwin portrayed him in The Aviator.) I was hoping the bathrooms would be super cramped and stainless steel, but this was not the case. Love the place nonetheless."
Here's the website for the place:
http://www.nowboardingla.com/
"A Mid-Century Cocktail Lounge inspired by the Golden Age of Air Travel, located on Santa Monica Blvd. in the heart of West Hollywood."
Look forward to any trip reports by FTers.
Cheers.
A friend of mine in LA posted about it recently on his blog.
"Last night I had a much more pleasant flying experience, at a lounge called Now Boarding, in West Hollywood, designed with a glamorous 60s airline theme. Lots of gold fixtures and vintage luggage, and a “steward” pushing an old drink cart around the place, making martinis at tables.
The bartenders wear captains’ uniforms, harkening back to a time when our pilots flew drunk and we liked it. The drink menu resembles a safety card, which is a nice touch.
Adding to my personal, cool experience was that I happened to be there with the great-great granddaughter of Juan Trippe, founder of Pan Am. (Alec Baldwin portrayed him in The Aviator.) I was hoping the bathrooms would be super cramped and stainless steel, but this was not the case. Love the place nonetheless."
Here's the website for the place:
http://www.nowboardingla.com/
"A Mid-Century Cocktail Lounge inspired by the Golden Age of Air Travel, located on Santa Monica Blvd. in the heart of West Hollywood."
Look forward to any trip reports by FTers.
Cheers.
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Has anyone eaten here or had drinks. Sounds like it would be a great place for FTers
A friend of mine in LA posted about it recently on his blog.
"Last night I had a much more pleasant flying experience, at a lounge called Now Boarding, in West Hollywood, designed with a glamorous 60s airline theme. Lots of gold fixtures and vintage luggage, and a “steward” pushing an old drink cart around the place, making martinis at tables.
The bartenders wear captains’ uniforms, harkening back to a time when our pilots flew drunk and we liked it. The drink menu resembles a safety card, which is a nice touch.
Adding to my personal, cool experience was that I happened to be there with the great-great granddaughter of Juan Trippe, founder of Pan Am. (Alec Baldwin portrayed him in The Aviator.) I was hoping the bathrooms would be super cramped and stainless steel, but this was not the case. Love the place nonetheless."
Here's the website for the place:
http://www.nowboardingla.com/
"A Mid-Century Cocktail Lounge inspired by the Golden Age of Air Travel, located on Santa Monica Blvd. in the heart of West Hollywood."
Look forward to any trip reports by FTers.
Cheers.
A friend of mine in LA posted about it recently on his blog.
"Last night I had a much more pleasant flying experience, at a lounge called Now Boarding, in West Hollywood, designed with a glamorous 60s airline theme. Lots of gold fixtures and vintage luggage, and a “steward” pushing an old drink cart around the place, making martinis at tables.
The bartenders wear captains’ uniforms, harkening back to a time when our pilots flew drunk and we liked it. The drink menu resembles a safety card, which is a nice touch.
Adding to my personal, cool experience was that I happened to be there with the great-great granddaughter of Juan Trippe, founder of Pan Am. (Alec Baldwin portrayed him in The Aviator.) I was hoping the bathrooms would be super cramped and stainless steel, but this was not the case. Love the place nonetheless."
Here's the website for the place:
http://www.nowboardingla.com/
"A Mid-Century Cocktail Lounge inspired by the Golden Age of Air Travel, located on Santa Monica Blvd. in the heart of West Hollywood."
Look forward to any trip reports by FTers.
Cheers.
I believe it's newly opened, so I'd go back again and give it another try.
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Today's New York Times Food Section has an article discussing the current restaurant scene in Los Angeles.
From the description in the California Today newsletter:
And from the article itself:
From the description in the California Today newsletter:
So it is with a little bit of trepidation that we present an article taking a look at the tremendous energy and churn in the Los Angeles restaurant world these days. This region is well known for pioneering food trucks and strip-mall restaurants — hold those emails, all you New Yorkers — but every year, the scene here becomes increasingly nuanced and interesting.
It’s not only what kind of food is being served, but where. You can now have a Sonoran dinner at Salazar, a year-round outdoor restaurant (try that, New York!) on a patio surrounded by a nightscape of power lines and palm trees in Frogtown. That neighborhood wouldn’t have been on any culinary list a few years ago.
The restaurant scenes in Los Angeles and New York are as different as the two cities. Chefs here talk about the year-round fresh produce, ample space to store the bounty from a farmer’s market and the ethnic mash-up food that boils up in such a diverse community. And those top-quality fruit and vegetables make it easier to cook here. It’s more challenging in New York, often resulting in more creativity and perseverance.
It’s not only what kind of food is being served, but where. You can now have a Sonoran dinner at Salazar, a year-round outdoor restaurant (try that, New York!) on a patio surrounded by a nightscape of power lines and palm trees in Frogtown. That neighborhood wouldn’t have been on any culinary list a few years ago.
The restaurant scenes in Los Angeles and New York are as different as the two cities. Chefs here talk about the year-round fresh produce, ample space to store the bounty from a farmer’s market and the ethnic mash-up food that boils up in such a diverse community. And those top-quality fruit and vegetables make it easier to cook here. It’s more challenging in New York, often resulting in more creativity and perseverance.
Los Angeles Restaurant Scene Is on the Move and Mixing It Up (this is a permalink, so there is no paywall)
Excerpts
Specifically mentioned are: B.S. Taqueria, Gwen, Here’s Looking at You, Kali, Kismet, Salazar, Shanghai No. 1 Seafood Village, Spago and Sqirl.
Excerpts
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Put aside the perennial (and tiresome) arguments about whether New York or Los Angeles has the better food scene. There are few cities displaying as much restaurant churn and change these days as this one. Los Angeles is once again showing the trait that has always been fundamental to its identity: relentless reinvention.
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Chefs are hunting for places with cheap — well, relatively cheap — rents in up-and-coming neighborhoods, away from communities like Santa Monica, Venice, Beverly Hills and West Hollywood, which offer established, thriving and satisfying restaurants.
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“It’s an inevitable cycle where restaurateurs try to go into places and find low rent, the crowds come, and the buildings get more expensive and you have to move on,” said Brad Johnson, the owner of Post & Beam in Baldwin Hills, who came here from New York to run restaurants 26 years ago. “I’ve watched the cycle happen a lot. But it’s sped up by social media, and people’s attention spans are so fast.”
“I can’t remember the last 10 places I’ve gone to here because there are 10 more places I want to go,” he added. “L.A. is very much a what’s-next town. People used to tell me, ‘You’re in the restaurant business, that’s really hard.’ I’d say, ‘It’s not that hard.’ But I feel it now.”
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Put aside the perennial (and tiresome) arguments about whether New York or Los Angeles has the better food scene. There are few cities displaying as much restaurant churn and change these days as this one. Los Angeles is once again showing the trait that has always been fundamental to its identity: relentless reinvention.
***
Chefs are hunting for places with cheap — well, relatively cheap — rents in up-and-coming neighborhoods, away from communities like Santa Monica, Venice, Beverly Hills and West Hollywood, which offer established, thriving and satisfying restaurants.
***
“It’s an inevitable cycle where restaurateurs try to go into places and find low rent, the crowds come, and the buildings get more expensive and you have to move on,” said Brad Johnson, the owner of Post & Beam in Baldwin Hills, who came here from New York to run restaurants 26 years ago. “I’ve watched the cycle happen a lot. But it’s sped up by social media, and people’s attention spans are so fast.”
“I can’t remember the last 10 places I’ve gone to here because there are 10 more places I want to go,” he added. “L.A. is very much a what’s-next town. People used to tell me, ‘You’re in the restaurant business, that’s really hard.’ I’d say, ‘It’s not that hard.’ But I feel it now.”
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Restaurant Suggestions Near El Rey Theatre? [to be merged]
My daughter and I are driving up for a show tonight at the El Rey Theatre. Address is 5515 Wilshire Boulevard.
Looking for suggestions on places to eat. Not looking for fine dining nor are we looking for large chains. Could be american or ethnic...greasy spoon or fast casual, etc.
Thanks!
Looking for suggestions on places to eat. Not looking for fine dining nor are we looking for large chains. Could be american or ethnic...greasy spoon or fast casual, etc.
Thanks!
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If you have a car, might I suggest one of the oldest restaurants in Los Angeles, El Cholo:
http://elcholo.com/location/los-angeles
12-18 minute drive to the theatre, depending on traffic.
http://elcholo.com/location/los-angeles
12-18 minute drive to the theatre, depending on traffic.
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My daughter and I are driving up for a show tonight at the El Rey Theatre. Address is 5515 Wilshire Boulevard.
Looking for suggestions on places to eat. Not looking for fine dining nor are we looking for large chains. Could be american or ethnic...greasy spoon or fast casual, etc.
Thanks!
Looking for suggestions on places to eat. Not looking for fine dining nor are we looking for large chains. Could be american or ethnic...greasy spoon or fast casual, etc.
Thanks!
Off the top of my head, within a couple of miles there are Little Ethiopia, the Original Farmers Market, Canter's Deli on Fairfax and the iconic El Coyote on Beverly. There are many other good places within that radius.
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That reminded me of an excellent place a block from Canters: "Plan Check".
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That reminded me of an excellent place a block from Canters: "Plan Check".