Los Angeles Thread #11: Let's Save Vincente Minnelli's House

it's that breezy 120
just recirculating boiled air around my apt that's killing me

Last night in the San Gabriels.

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Noise fest next weekend at The Box Gallery in the Arts District. No word of it on The Box's site though.

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Hi Los Angeles people. I'll be there on vacation all next week. Would love to meet people if feasible. Would also love any recommendations on food or shopping or other fun, easy activities. I've been out there various times, but feel like I've only ever scratched the surface. I suspect there's a lot that I'm missing I'm staying in Long Beach, so things convenient to that area would be great, but I'll have a car and am willing to drive around too.

imo the most beautiful place in la and surrounding areas is the point vicente lighthouse in palos verdes. if you go this saturday, you can get a tour but i'm not sure how good it is: http://www.palosverdes.com/pvlight/

i just love walking around there to relax and get away from all the madness. the times i've been there it's been quite peaceful

there's a couple caves if you do a bit of walking past terranea resort

for another pretty mellow walk check out the lake shrine gardens in pacific palisades -- more of a eastern religion/buddhist place but lots of different people walk in the gardens

what type of food do you like?

i can recommend some easy hiking trails if you want, but i wouldn't recommend it unless you don't mind scorching hot weather (next week is going to be really hot)

i'm assuming you've done all the popular stuff like the getty in brentwood and the newest museum the broad downtown, which you need really advanced tickets for

Nope, I think I'm going to the broad this time. But a lot of the typical stuff I haven't done and don't necessarily have on my radar.

As far as food, I'd be interested in trying out good Asian options in particular, but would really be open to anything good and fairly affordable. Not planning on doing fine dining.

korean food:

seongbukdong (my personal fave -- been here plenty of times but not recently)
beverly soon tofu restaurant (fave place to get soondubu)
ahgassi gopchang (best intestines in ktown/la i've heard, i quite like it)
kang ho dong (super popular kbbq place owned by this famous korean dude)

annnd if you like bingsoo, i highly recommend sul and beans

in terms of japanese...nothing of note (spoiled by eating in japan)

best ramen:

daikokuya in downtown la (not sawtelle)
followed closely by tsujita ANNEX (on sawtelle)

honestly i don't eat sushi in la, but if you really want to, try sushi gen but see if you're willing to put up with the prices

a lot of the better japanese places in la are fine dining. you can find a couple decent ramen places in torrance. been to a few but i don't recall their names right now.

if you're in torrance i would hit up kula, which is conveyor belt sushi. they're a small chain, but i'm told this location is the better one

and if you're into craft beer, sunset beer co in echo park!

the echo has free shows every monday night. i don't recall if it's after a specific time, but i would get there around 10pm

tonnes of mexican restaurants as i'm sure you know already

You might try la.eater.com for ideas, though it doesn't seem to be searchable for food type. There are "neighborhood" links but when I looked at Long Beach it took a bit of scrolling find any "best of" articles.

Awesome recs, thanks!

try Beachwood BBQ and Brewing in Long Beach.

https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/25959/

if you do get up to Echo Park i would recommend Guisados and Mexicali for tacos. the former is located close to Vin Scully Way near Dodger Stadium, the latter on Figueroa just north of Sunset Blvd, near the 110 freeway.

been meaning to go there myself

do you happen to know if they sell bottles of their melrose ipa?

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i know they have it in bottles, not sure if they sell them there though? maybe at the aforementioned sunset beer co.

they do have growlers, natch.

i sometimes go to sunset beer co and haven't found it yet

never tried buying growlers, intrigued though

anyone rep for t'aix? i freakin' LOVE that place. think it's the oldest resto in LA (?). the bar is a beauty, had some smoked rum last time i was there and some snails (first time) were actually great. pricey though

speaking of echo park area xxposts

never tried it but had read good stuff on yelp

i'm aways hesistant to go in because it looks so weird

like it's trying to be a bunch of different things that don't mesh well together

i used to go to masa in that area a lot tho

also been to a handful of vegetarian restaurants there and was kind of underwhelmed

i think moby owns a vegan joint around there (maybe silver lake, not sure) that my friend went to and said was underwhelming, too. i guess taix are doing more than just classic French country cuisine, but i've tried the mussels, endive salad, snails and i can vouch for the French fare being excellently prepared fwiw

i fucking love taix. so romantic.

moby's got his vegan place little pine in silver lake, not to be confused with pine and crane, which is taiwanese iirc. the latter is really good, the former i hear the same mixed things.

taix is a good place to hang out, it's a bit more chill than you'd imagine and the bar area is nice too. tam o'shanter is a similarly old school and fun spot. there's a newish british-style pub in echo park called the lost knight, which is sort of the medieval times of british pubs imo. like a lot of newer spots around these parts it feels pretty transitory.

xxp

sweet dude

ya i'll definitely give it a try because i'm definitely interested in going

in terms of LB-adjacent stuff: i went to point fermin park in san pedro last weekend, which is beautiful - the lighthouse tour was fun and free (they do it three times a day, in the afternoons). a really cool thing near there is the sunken city, which is the ruins of an evacuated beachside city that was decimated in a landslide in the 1920s (you have to sneak around a gate to get there since it's technically not open to the public but it's totally worth it). you can also check out the korean friendship bell while you're there. angels gate cultural center is around there too, a former military barracks converted into arts studios (similar to the headlands up in marin) - they have art shows and the like. we ate at a *great* lebanese joint in SP called nazelie's. lots of v. old-school dive bars around there but couldn't tell you anything about any of them. LB's got tons of gay bars clustered around one strip if that's something yr into. i've only been to LB a few times but i really dig it, it's a lot cooler (temp-wise) and relaxed compared to LA.

i love taix but don't really go there very often. i really like masa and guisados (the latter is now essentially a chain - they started in boyle heights and now have branches in echo park, DTLA and west hollywood). prado wine bar in echo park is nice if you go there during non-peak hours - i don't really like going out drinking there. also be warned that with dodgers games happening that parking in echo park is sometimes next to impossible.

whoops, "i don't really like going out drinking there" = i meant in echo park, generally. but i like prado.

food-wise: will second pine & crane (i was underwhelmed by it the first time i went there but liked it a lot more on my second visit many months later). there's an upscale-ish thai street food place near there called night + market song that's great, and a newish burmese place called daw yee just opened a little further east on sunset - the tea leaf salad is crazy good

as far as mexican food in that area, i think el condor is the only sit-down joint i really like. mexico city on hillhurst isn't really that bad, i guess. just went there for the first time. better than i anticipated.

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Couple of important food areas near Long Beach... Going to Westminster/Garden Grove for Vietnamese food is pretty much mandatory. Brodard on Westminster Ave. and Thanh Mai on Bolsa Ave. are my faves, Quan Long Hoa and Pho Quang Trung would be my next choice. Thanh Mai is open until 1:30am - I've become a regular.

Long Beach has a small Cambodian community with some great restaurants - Phnom Penh Noodle Shack on Cherry is the first place to go. Hak Heang on Anaheim is also very good and occasionally has a live band playing Cambodian pop classics.

There's at least a dozen or so Indian restaurants along Pioneer Blvd. in Artesia. I haven't kept up as the scene is always changing there but I usually go with whichever place has the most polarizing Yelp/Chowhound reviews.

Gardena has a couple of great ramen places. My go-to is Shin-Sen-Gumi Hakata on Redondo Beach Blvd. May just be my favorite ramen place in the Sprawl.

Jonathan Gold's essential 101 is a good place to start: http://ballots.latimes.com/lists/101-best-restaurants-jonathan-gold/

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a very trimeric experience

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just wanted to say thank you for all the great recommendations, they were very helpful. The biggest hit was Kang Ho Dong which I went to with my brother and then later talked my cousins into checking out as well.

On the first day out there, we had a bunch of time to kill so I took my family to Point Fermin, lots of nice views including a bunch of sea lions chilling on some rocks, plus my son found a gold mine of pokemon out there.

awesome dude!

was at beverly soon tofu restaurant last week

still delicious!

Exile in OC has finally finished. As of today, I'm a resident of Sierra Madre... SGV represent!

SGV!

Welcome!

So are we all out of OC now?

yep seal the door

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it made the latimes

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The 13-year-old was arrested on suspicion of battery and making criminal threats, and a 15-year-old was arrested on suspicion of assault and battery

WTF! such bullshit

Tuesday’s confrontation began over what Anaheim police described as “ongoing issues” with the juveniles walking across the officer’s property. During the argument, police said, a 13-year-old threatened to shoot the off-duty officer, prompting him to attempt to detain the teen.

the kid said he threatened to sue the cop which makes more sense

details are nebulous but it sounds like the boy was on the off-duty police officer's lawn and he told him to stay away. the kid threatens to shoot him. the off-duty police officer attempts a citizen's arrest

what is he going to sue him for?

off-duty police officer should get some type of punishment for taking out his gun and shooting it though

yeah who knows for sure . I thought it was that the cop first had a problem with a little girl and that kid got involved .

i'm moving in a year in order to attend CSU Northridge and starting to think about affordable housing in the area. a friend said i might consider: reseda, van nuys, mission hills, sylmar, san fernando or even parts of northridge. any kind ilxors have any other bits of knowledge to share? i really don't know that part of L.A. at all unfortunately but am gonna be in the area in late july for a short visit and a dodger game

2028 Olympics! better u than NYC

fuck

daily temps might be 100 or so

Good prep for Dubai 2032.

Cinefamily dudes resign over sexual misconduct allegations

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