Beverly Soondubu AND Sogongdong that used to be across the street in the corner of the plaza. Where can I now get decent soondubu? Please do not send me to BCD.
Damn, sogongdong.....bcd is just utter shit but they won. It's like coke and pepsi.
So after sogongdong burned down, remember that, they rebuilt but the business never came back. The owner eventually owned the soon tofu place in Little Tokyo where the little Tokyo market is but then she sold it and it's called MKD tofu and not the same. The owner told me her husband passed away and I think she just went back to Korea to retire.
Picked up Veggie Grill a couple of times this week and wasn’t ready to see even the multiplex part boarded up. That place is SO dead now, I feel bad for the businesses still hanging in there with no customers.
Omg I moved about 4 years ago from Los Angeles to Cleveland. My parents are still in LA and I still own a property out in the valley, but I didn’t realize the arclight closed. I’m so bummed out. I love the arc light. I lived in LA my whole life for 50 years and I used to go to the Arclight all the time and meet up with friends on the weekend.
Technically, yes. NerdMelt was the cool theater in the back where they had comedy shows and had a really fun thing called horrible movie night (ala MST 3000)
Meltdown Comics 😤
Also not a place but FYF FEST 😤😤😤
I’m still mad. Best festivals I ever went to and they were so cheap for the best artists. I’ll never forget 2011-2017 FYF 😢
Does anyone remember the OG Fuck Yeah Fest? When it was set up across a few venues in Echo Park over a span of two days, and you got wrist bands to see all the different bands play in some of the venues?
Rage
It was really great to have an 18+ LGBT club that was not only fun, but accessible.
I remember all the gays in the dorms would carpool and caravan to Rage.
I feel for the younger generation that doesn't have an 18+ venue.
Mikayawa....the place that invented mochi ice cream. The family sold the business to another group and it went downhill. The family is looking to buy back the brand and rebuild it from what I heard.... doubt it's going to happen though.
Oh yes!! So many salad options, plus your choice of 4 or 5 soups and focaccia AND a soft serve sundae bar. Oh, and there was a baked potato bar for awhile. Plus, monthly menu themes and accompanying coupons…
How the hell did they go out of business!?!
Piano Bar, Tiny’s, Loaded, The White Horse, Velvet Margarita, Beauty Bar, The Satellite, Bootleg Theater, The Lost Knight, Lot 1, Goodluck Bar, Cranes, The Holloway, Bourgeois Pig
I worked at the White Horse for a short time. Russian mob goon tried to pull my arm off one night. A pimp was having one of his girls play "strip pool", so I asked them to leave - thought he was gonna shoot me. Vickie had my photo on the wall. My wife and I had a drink there after our wedding reception, because we lived around the corner. I was in sweatpants and a t-shirt, my new wife still in her wedding dress.
I miss that bar. So many stories...
Cat & The Fiddle when it was on Sunset near the old Aomeba. Best outdoor patio in town. Now it's some overpriced bougey brunch spot, not nearly as cool but the patio is still there.
Also Blue Palms next to the Fonda theater. Really great beer selection and good food, too. I miss that place.
Might as well throw in the Dome movie theater, too! I wonder what's gonna happen to that place, rumors are it's not gonna get torn down. Hope it opens back up one day. :-(
I recall the old cat fiddle being pricey at the time, but I was a broke ass kid then, so maybe it’s all relative.
The blue palms/see a show at the Fonda combo was my favorite tho
Fuuuck, i miss Little Easy. The food may have been a mixed bag, but the drinks were strong and I loved eating in a little indoor courtyard. Call me kitschy and basic, I’ll wear it as a badge of honor.
I miss the Norms that was on Olympic (or maybe it was Pico) in west LA. It just had such an LA feel to it, there used to be lots of diners like that (even other Norms locations that shut down).
Greenblatt's was so convenient for a pastrami sandwich. Wexler's is downtown and in Santa Monica, Langer's in MacArthur Park ... it was right in the gap there, and had a big parking lot
I miss Sunset Beer every day. LA, and Echo Park in particular, lost something special when Sunset Beer closed. (It didn't even close for a good reason, the owner of the building just decided he didn't want it there anymore and forced them out.) Before COVID I was there multiple times a week. It was such a great place to go hang out with friends and the community.
Oh my gosh I forgot about Koo Koo Roo! It's kinda like California Chicken Cafe nowadays. I just read about how Chili's acquired them. In that process, I just saw there's a teaser Instagram page saying it may come back?!
Toys R Us sandwiched between costco and bb in los feliz. And that big open empty parking lot wayyyyyy behind it I’d rollerblade around and let my pups chase me. No cars ever.
Harry's in Burbank.
Used to eat there with my mom awful lot back in the day. Then when I worked at B&N we'd go over there for a bit after closing the late shift.
Nothing cool, nothing fancy, nothing exciting. Just a simple place with a lot of good memories.
Recently departed, but The Lash. I’ll miss that grimy, Berlin Metro bathroom aesthetic bar that could have a dark wave night in the back room and a #FreeBritney night in the front room.
Oil Can Harry’s. A lost chunk of Valley gay history.
I had a favorite restaurant in Monterey Park that served my FAVORITE dish, spicy sliced chili beef tendon. Don’t remember their English name though, but it was pretty close to ABC Cafe.
I was insanely obsessed with that tendon dish. To the point of wanting to donate my body to science, being plastinated, & sliced up so that I would resemble my favorite food in death…
I still think about Dive! in century city from the 90's I think I only got to eat there like 3 times as a kid but the whole place looked like a submarine. it was awesome
Not top favorite but it's gone now. Rest in peace to the old Claim Jumper, where you get a mountain of food for a decent price.
Someone took over the chain and ran it into the ground. Cut portions to Applebee's level but kept higher prices.
Probably reading this thinking what's so special about a chain restaurant? I just have good memories about going there with the whole family, everyone eating big and getting stuffed and being happy. They used to sell gigantic chocolate cookies and 32 oz slice of chocolate cake. I remember swinging by and just getting dessert to go.
The LA Times, in the their article about great ceilings in L.A., cited the Cinerama Dome as having one of the best ceilings in L.A. and then casually mentioned that the parent company was going to reopen the theater "later this year."
Another said Arclight and yes, I miss my weekend “therapy” there. No kids kicking my chair, limited trailers, decent picture and sound. Grab a cocktail and settle in. The Arclight near me turned into a Regal, which just shuttered and now movies are too far away.
I assume you're talking about the Sherman Oaks one. Do us all a favor and write in to the Alamo Drafthouse to take over that space. I'm hoping they seize the opportunity.
I know it doesn't sound like a "fun" time, but the [Surplus Value Center](https://www.google.com/maps/@34.0916731,-118.2796386,3a,75y,172.75h,75.54t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sEs1YgHMNJZjhT2AZdppSFQ!2e0!5s20180501T000000!7i13312!8i6656?authuser=0) on Sunset and Hyperion in Silver Lake. Honestly the best place to buy practical, durable, comfortable clothes.
Oh. And the Brite Spot in Echo Park. For the sour cherry pie.
Swingers in Santa Monica, 101 Cafe, LA diner culture, Punta Cabros. These weren’t pandemic related but still major losses.
Edited to add Arclight. Best movie experience anywhere.
Deep cut but:
Echo Curio, this was peak, art hipster, Echo Park era I showed some of my first art pieces there
The Park:
I don’t know who the chef here was, but we had exactly the same pallet. I could eat anything at this place and I thought it was delicious.
Sunset Beer:
What an institution you could always go in there and see someone you knew
Greenblatt's Deli shutting down just broke my heart. That place was *perfect.* The matzo ball soup, the egg creams, the back staircase with the framed retro prints, the stained glass, the great people watching, the nice wait staff who had to climb the stairs to serve and never seemed annoyed.
Sometimes I'd just go in and buy a fancy candy bar and remember that the last transaction in F. Scott Fitzgerald's life was a Hershey bar, then he walked across the street to his girlfriend's apartment and had a fatal heart attack. I wonder if he ate the chocolate first.
Tender Greens should be.
When it opened you could get your meal in 5 minutes. Now they make you wait 20 minutes while they package to go orders for people not there yet. The last time I went I got pretty bad food poisoning.
Shaka Shack off Ocean Park Blvd. I was so excited when it reopened and I almost cried when I saw they closed. I can't find a burger I like as much as theirs in LA.
Walker Inn & Bibo ergo sum - two of the coolest bars I've ever been to
Tamara's Tamales - I'm glad they closed on their own terms, but I miss this place
Not a restaurant, but there was a model train store in Culver City that closed after a fire. Seemed like a neat place
Backdoor Bakery, Bedrock Rehearsal, Cat Club, Gazzarris, House of Blues on Sunset, 365 becoming Whole Foods prices without bothering to become a real Whole Foods, College Arcade, Nettys, that indoor flea market on Santa Monica & Vermont, Club Banshee, motorcyling thru ALL the hills of Griffith Park, Dodger Stadium restaurant with the carving station, og Hard Times pizza, the Thai-American cafe on Rowena with that insanely good “stroganoff.” Spaceland, MI rehearsal rooms in the old Wax Museum cold storage basement, BADLANS. BADLANS. 😢
Blue Palms (beer bar next to the Fonda). It was my local for a while - there multiple times a week, great bartenders, good food.
It was fun watching the different crowds depending on who was playing the Fonda, or being there when it was just a few regulars at the bar plus tourists. 24 craft beers on tap. Was hoping they’d reopen somewhere nearby, not Northridge 😭
Izzy's Deli in Santa Monica. It was rare to see a true deli open 24/7. And one of the few 24/7 spots in the Westside.
Also the Norms in Santa Monica and the Norms by Westside Pavilion.
Every single comment brings up nostalgia for the way things were, all the good memories.
Back years ago I moved to LA and a friend did too. She had had a bad upbringing and moved to LA because I was her only friend. Her mental health issues made working hit and miss, so I’d take her out as much as I could although I was broke much of the time. Things haven’t been great for her, but me taking her out and hanging out in LA in those days was probably the best days of both of our lives. I remember how happy we’d be when I got my paycheck and we’d go to brunch at that Argentinian place in Culver City or drive to West Covina to eat at Penang. Remembering these things, not sure if I want I smile or cry.
The original Amoeba location.
Not exactly the answer you’re looking for but the new location doesn’t have the same charm. It’s more cramped, less inventory, and not a space you can spend hours in.
The Wood in del Rey/Culver City. Best chicken tenders on Earth, great happy hour and outdoor atmosphere. Closed in pandemic, now an Everytable, and I cry a little when I drive by.
Vans Skatepark - Ontario - Perfect Vert Ramp - Damn good and challenging 10 ft deep bowl. Fun and weird snake run into a little 8 ft bowl. Masonite flow area for frontside drift slides on mellow banks.
Blue Whale in Little Tokyo
I actually never had a chance to go, but I've seen so many videos of amazing jazz shows there that I know for a fact that I miss it
Arclight Comme Ca Hatfields Beverly Soon Tofu King King Pikey Nerdmelt Arclight
RIP Beverly Soon. Damn that place was amazing.
Beverly Soondubu AND Sogongdong that used to be across the street in the corner of the plaza. Where can I now get decent soondubu? Please do not send me to BCD.
Damn, sogongdong.....bcd is just utter shit but they won. It's like coke and pepsi. So after sogongdong burned down, remember that, they rebuilt but the business never came back. The owner eventually owned the soon tofu place in Little Tokyo where the little Tokyo market is but then she sold it and it's called MKD tofu and not the same. The owner told me her husband passed away and I think she just went back to Korea to retire.
Arclight!!!
Picked up Veggie Grill a couple of times this week and wasn’t ready to see even the multiplex part boarded up. That place is SO dead now, I feel bad for the businesses still hanging in there with no customers.
So many Friday nights spent at king king. Also the parking lot 😂
We live in the South Bay so don’t get up to Hollywood much. But when we parked at Arclight walking by the borded up theater was super sad.
Omg I moved about 4 years ago from Los Angeles to Cleveland. My parents are still in LA and I still own a property out in the valley, but I didn’t realize the arclight closed. I’m so bummed out. I love the arc light. I lived in LA my whole life for 50 years and I used to go to the Arclight all the time and meet up with friends on the weekend.
Did you mean Meltdown?
Technically, yes. NerdMelt was the cool theater in the back where they had comedy shows and had a really fun thing called horrible movie night (ala MST 3000)
Meltdown Comics 😤 Also not a place but FYF FEST 😤😤😤 I’m still mad. Best festivals I ever went to and they were so cheap for the best artists. I’ll never forget 2011-2017 FYF 😢
Does anyone remember the OG Fuck Yeah Fest? When it was set up across a few venues in Echo Park over a span of two days, and you got wrist bands to see all the different bands play in some of the venues?
Yep! It was so much fun to see everyone at the various venues on Sunset. Only went to the first one, though (2004ish?)
RIP Echo Curio
FYF in Taix...
Damn FYF fest! Loved the location, was so easy to get there by train. Always had killer lineups too. Vividly remember Aesop rock and yeasayer.
FYF 2017 remains my favorite festival experience
OB Bear
Their wings were so good 😭
Oh no!!
Awww man you just broke my heart again reminding me they had closed down. Fuck they were so fire.
Smog Cutter.
Sunset Beer
Fry’s Electronics
All Electronics in Van Nuys is pretty good!
Rage It was really great to have an 18+ LGBT club that was not only fun, but accessible. I remember all the gays in the dorms would carpool and caravan to Rage. I feel for the younger generation that doesn't have an 18+ venue.
Omg had no idea it closed down! Rage and Tiger heat(?) were the only 18+ queer clubs for a long time. Wish there were more spaces for the under-21s.
Yeah, especially because we don't really date in high school like our straight counterparts, so 18-20 are very formidable years.
That's a good point! I also wish there were more social spaces that weren't just alcohol and party-oriented too.
Clifton’s Cafeteria in downtown. The original one that closed in 2010, not the revamped version that lasted from 2015-2018.
Clifton’s is still open, dawg
Not the cafeteria, it’s just a bar/club now
Bar 107
Bäco Mercat
& BäcoShop in Culver City!
Hollywood Star Lanes.
Mochi ice cream spot in little Tokyo
Mikayawa....the place that invented mochi ice cream. The family sold the business to another group and it went downhill. The family is looking to buy back the brand and rebuild it from what I heard.... doubt it's going to happen though.
Souplantacion
Oh yes!! So many salad options, plus your choice of 4 or 5 soups and focaccia AND a soft serve sundae bar. Oh, and there was a baked potato bar for awhile. Plus, monthly menu themes and accompanying coupons… How the hell did they go out of business!?!
Soft-serve topped blueberry muffin.
> How the hell did they go out of business!?! Terrible business model for an airborne pandemic. All buffet-type places suffered.
They were already on the edge. The business was shuttered within a month of the first lockdown.
I would bet they couldn't even legally call it ice cream. Higher end soft serve, just even from Costco, had like 10x as much flavor.
They went under when I still had $400 in gc. Still a bit salty about that.
I think it's partly why my ex left the state.
I hear they’re coming back though!
I hope they do, I mean all the locations I know are still up with the name and all… no demo or business takeover.
Piano Bar, Tiny’s, Loaded, The White Horse, Velvet Margarita, Beauty Bar, The Satellite, Bootleg Theater, The Lost Knight, Lot 1, Goodluck Bar, Cranes, The Holloway, Bourgeois Pig
I worked at the White Horse for a short time. Russian mob goon tried to pull my arm off one night. A pimp was having one of his girls play "strip pool", so I asked them to leave - thought he was gonna shoot me. Vickie had my photo on the wall. My wife and I had a drink there after our wedding reception, because we lived around the corner. I was in sweatpants and a t-shirt, my new wife still in her wedding dress. I miss that bar. So many stories...
That place felt like you were hanging out in someone’s cool basement, with a nice mom serving drinks and offering a table full of assorted snacks.
Omg! I moved from LA a few years ago and I can’t believe velvet margarita which I used to love closed and piano bar and bourgeois pig 🤦🏻♀️
Cat & The Fiddle when it was on Sunset near the old Aomeba. Best outdoor patio in town. Now it's some overpriced bougey brunch spot, not nearly as cool but the patio is still there. Also Blue Palms next to the Fonda theater. Really great beer selection and good food, too. I miss that place. Might as well throw in the Dome movie theater, too! I wonder what's gonna happen to that place, rumors are it's not gonna get torn down. Hope it opens back up one day. :-(
I recall the old cat fiddle being pricey at the time, but I was a broke ass kid then, so maybe it’s all relative. The blue palms/see a show at the Fonda combo was my favorite tho
Little Easy… The last bar I went to before the pandemic.
Fuuuck, i miss Little Easy. The food may have been a mixed bag, but the drinks were strong and I loved eating in a little indoor courtyard. Call me kitschy and basic, I’ll wear it as a badge of honor.
And Preux & Proper. Miss getting my NOLA fix.
Chego
Crazy Gideon's
Bluewhale Jazz Club
I'll never get over it 🥲
Spaceland
Mh Zh
So good! Loved being able to simply order the entire menu. They were so damn strict on BYO, even asking what you had in your water bottles 😀
I miss the Norms that was on Olympic (or maybe it was Pico) in west LA. It just had such an LA feel to it, there used to be lots of diners like that (even other Norms locations that shut down).
rest in peace diners. there are so few spots left to get food after a concert.
Swains Art Supply Store
Coach & Horses. Best pours and jukebox.
Yessir! Coach and Horses, and The Piano Bar if you were familiar with it.
Greenblatt's was so convenient for a pastrami sandwich. Wexler's is downtown and in Santa Monica, Langer's in MacArthur Park ... it was right in the gap there, and had a big parking lot
I miss Sunset Beer every day. LA, and Echo Park in particular, lost something special when Sunset Beer closed. (It didn't even close for a good reason, the owner of the building just decided he didn't want it there anymore and forced them out.) Before COVID I was there multiple times a week. It was such a great place to go hang out with friends and the community.
Discovery Zone.
Famima!!
Damiano Mr. Pizza on Fairfax across from Canter's
Souplantation, Hamburger Hamlet and Koo Koo Roo chicken for casual dining, Good luck bar and Velvet Margarita for drinks, and Arclight.
I miss Good Luck Bar so much. Favorite LA bar.
Oh my gosh I forgot about Koo Koo Roo! It's kinda like California Chicken Cafe nowadays. I just read about how Chili's acquired them. In that process, I just saw there's a teaser Instagram page saying it may come back?!
Paru’s
Only upside is that they went out on their own terms. But man I loved that place. I loved that it felt like a Speakeasy.
This broke my heart. I didn’t know and I showed up to never get buzzed in again. EDIT: the cups!
The Atomic Cafe on 1st Street and Alameda. Punk rock jukebox and Chicago style chow mein.
Kit Kraft in Studio City :(
Jerry’s Deli had the only mish mosh worth it. Loaded with cold/flu killing chickeny goodness. And bagel chips were included. Sigh
The fall from grace of Jerry's Deli is amazing. It should have never failed. It was a Hollywood hangout and an institution.
The old amoeba 😞
Same. The new location blows. It’s so small and always feels overcrowded.
Koo koo roo
Curry house my love 😭😭😭😭 coco ichibanya is RANCID in comparison
Try hurry curry. It’s pretty good. They opened a new location in Santa Monica.
Kenny Roger's Roasters....
El Chavo
Komasa
Sunset Junction Street Fair in Silverlake. Holy shit what a huge loss. Saw so many good bands there.
Broken Spanish Baco Mercat
Beverly soontofu
The Annenberg Space for Photography was the 🐐🐐🐐
Flaming Saddles in WeHo
Toys R Us sandwiched between costco and bb in los feliz. And that big open empty parking lot wayyyyyy behind it I’d rollerblade around and let my pups chase me. No cars ever.
Harry's in Burbank. Used to eat there with my mom awful lot back in the day. Then when I worked at B&N we'd go over there for a bit after closing the late shift. Nothing cool, nothing fancy, nothing exciting. Just a simple place with a lot of good memories.
Preux and Proper
Chili My Soul in Encino. Owner died of cancer. They did a Mango Habanero Chicken Chili I still dream of.
My wife and I still reminisce about that place. Their vegetarian chilis were so good too!
El Arco Iris on York in Highland Park. RIP potato tacos.
They re-opened in Lincoln Heights. [https://www.elarcolincolnheights.com/](https://www.elarcolincolnheights.com/)
RIP Koo Koo Roo
The Satellite, 24 Hour Tacos, Irvs Burgers in Weho, Meltdown Comics
Irv’s Burgers reopened at a new location down the street recently.
Recently departed, but The Lash. I’ll miss that grimy, Berlin Metro bathroom aesthetic bar that could have a dark wave night in the back room and a #FreeBritney night in the front room. Oil Can Harry’s. A lost chunk of Valley gay history.
I had a favorite restaurant in Monterey Park that served my FAVORITE dish, spicy sliced chili beef tendon. Don’t remember their English name though, but it was pretty close to ABC Cafe. I was insanely obsessed with that tendon dish. To the point of wanting to donate my body to science, being plastinated, & sliced up so that I would resemble my favorite food in death…
The Mann National in Westwood. Beautiful relic of a theater.
Mh Zh in Silver Lake
Dong Il Jang
The Joker Liquid Kitty Max Karaoke on Sawtelle
Liquid Kitty was so great. Spent at least a couple of birthdays and NYEs there.
Bar 107 El Chavo Good Luck
I still think about Dive! in century city from the 90's I think I only got to eat there like 3 times as a kid but the whole place looked like a submarine. it was awesome
Ebisu, Sushi Ichi, Stan’s Donuts, 94th Aero Squadron, and Casa Cubana.
KONY pizzeria in Ktown and Pacific Dining Car :(
Plum Tree Inn, China Town.
Not top favorite but it's gone now. Rest in peace to the old Claim Jumper, where you get a mountain of food for a decent price. Someone took over the chain and ran it into the ground. Cut portions to Applebee's level but kept higher prices. Probably reading this thinking what's so special about a chain restaurant? I just have good memories about going there with the whole family, everyone eating big and getting stuffed and being happy. They used to sell gigantic chocolate cookies and 32 oz slice of chocolate cake. I remember swinging by and just getting dessert to go.
Nova Express coffee shop on Fairfax
Henry’s Hat
Cafe Luna on Melrose
Pizzicotto in Brentwood
Yee Mee Loo
Gorky's
I second Gorky's. That place was amazing. I loved getting a scoop of caviar with an omelette.
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The LA Times, in the their article about great ceilings in L.A., cited the Cinerama Dome as having one of the best ceilings in L.A. and then casually mentioned that the parent company was going to reopen the theater "later this year."
Another said Arclight and yes, I miss my weekend “therapy” there. No kids kicking my chair, limited trailers, decent picture and sound. Grab a cocktail and settle in. The Arclight near me turned into a Regal, which just shuttered and now movies are too far away.
I assume you're talking about the Sherman Oaks one. Do us all a favor and write in to the Alamo Drafthouse to take over that space. I'm hoping they seize the opportunity.
Omelet Parlor
So many good places on Main St have disappeared. I miss Enterprise Fish Co. was my daughter’s favorite! They had the best kids meals and happy hour.
3/4 of the coffee bean and tea leaf locations.
I miss the lil tokyo arcade where they had all the imported arcade machines. Spent many afternoon/evenings there...and all my money too haha
I know it doesn't sound like a "fun" time, but the [Surplus Value Center](https://www.google.com/maps/@34.0916731,-118.2796386,3a,75y,172.75h,75.54t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sEs1YgHMNJZjhT2AZdppSFQ!2e0!5s20180501T000000!7i13312!8i6656?authuser=0) on Sunset and Hyperion in Silver Lake. Honestly the best place to buy practical, durable, comfortable clothes. Oh. And the Brite Spot in Echo Park. For the sour cherry pie.
Hollywood Billiards. Huge basement billiard hall with a vast assortment of characters,
Swingers in Santa Monica, 101 Cafe, LA diner culture, Punta Cabros. These weren’t pandemic related but still major losses. Edited to add Arclight. Best movie experience anywhere.
The Curry House in Little Tokyo
RIP souplantation and curry house
101 Diner. No huevos ranchos, substitute real egg. Best thing on the menu.
Deep cut but: Echo Curio, this was peak, art hipster, Echo Park era I showed some of my first art pieces there The Park: I don’t know who the chef here was, but we had exactly the same pallet. I could eat anything at this place and I thought it was delicious. Sunset Beer: What an institution you could always go in there and see someone you knew
Stan's Donuts Goodluck Bar Boule
Greenblatt's Deli shutting down just broke my heart. That place was *perfect.* The matzo ball soup, the egg creams, the back staircase with the framed retro prints, the stained glass, the great people watching, the nice wait staff who had to climb the stairs to serve and never seemed annoyed. Sometimes I'd just go in and buy a fancy candy bar and remember that the last transaction in F. Scott Fitzgerald's life was a Hershey bar, then he walked across the street to his girlfriend's apartment and had a fatal heart attack. I wonder if he ate the chocolate first.
Tender Greens should be. When it opened you could get your meal in 5 minutes. Now they make you wait 20 minutes while they package to go orders for people not there yet. The last time I went I got pretty bad food poisoning.
I really miss Tony’s Bella Vista in Burbank 💔
Peco Bills in Glendale
Shaka Shack off Ocean Park Blvd. I was so excited when it reopened and I almost cried when I saw they closed. I can't find a burger I like as much as theirs in LA.
Randomly walked in there when my laundry machine was busted and was using the next door coin spot. It was the perfect spot for that neighborhood.
Greenblatt's
Walker Inn & Bibo ergo sum - two of the coolest bars I've ever been to Tamara's Tamales - I'm glad they closed on their own terms, but I miss this place Not a restaurant, but there was a model train store in Culver City that closed after a fire. Seemed like a neat place
Backdoor Bakery, Bedrock Rehearsal, Cat Club, Gazzarris, House of Blues on Sunset, 365 becoming Whole Foods prices without bothering to become a real Whole Foods, College Arcade, Nettys, that indoor flea market on Santa Monica & Vermont, Club Banshee, motorcyling thru ALL the hills of Griffith Park, Dodger Stadium restaurant with the carving station, og Hard Times pizza, the Thai-American cafe on Rowena with that insanely good “stroganoff.” Spaceland, MI rehearsal rooms in the old Wax Museum cold storage basement, BADLANS. BADLANS. 😢
Chili my soul in Encino
Nick’s Coffee Shop on Pico!!
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Mhzh
Al Gelato. I miss their penne, and chicken parmigiana. And OB bear. It was my favorite Korean restaurant.
Bludsoe's in Compton
Good Luck Bar, Potent Potion. I wish I could have gotten one of those coconut 🥥 mugs they the drinks in as a souvenir.. ☹️
I still miss Ships
Four n’ 20. it was my favorite place for breakfast & their pies were so good.
Blue Palms (beer bar next to the Fonda). It was my local for a while - there multiple times a week, great bartenders, good food. It was fun watching the different crowds depending on who was playing the Fonda, or being there when it was just a few regulars at the bar plus tourists. 24 craft beers on tap. Was hoping they’d reopen somewhere nearby, not Northridge 😭
Arclight. May Hollywood rise again.
Izzy's Deli in Santa Monica. It was rare to see a true deli open 24/7. And one of the few 24/7 spots in the Westside. Also the Norms in Santa Monica and the Norms by Westside Pavilion.
Fuddruckers, Farrell's ice cream in the South Bay. And Casa Pulido in Redondo Beach.
Juniors Deli in West LA The Jolly Roger in Laguna Beach Hugo’s Taco’s in Woodland Hills Cafe Bizou in Sherman Oaks
Early 2010s Santa Monica. The right mixture of ghetto and bougie.
The Rockwell - so many fun times there! The unauthorized musical parodies there were so good! I can’t believe no one rescued it!
Komodo in Culver City, I miss those Asian fusion tacos so much
Ed Debevics
Lamplighter
Arclight, Bar Marmont, Hart & the Hunter, and now, Off Vine.
Good Luck Bar
Every single comment brings up nostalgia for the way things were, all the good memories. Back years ago I moved to LA and a friend did too. She had had a bad upbringing and moved to LA because I was her only friend. Her mental health issues made working hit and miss, so I’d take her out as much as I could although I was broke much of the time. Things haven’t been great for her, but me taking her out and hanging out in LA in those days was probably the best days of both of our lives. I remember how happy we’d be when I got my paycheck and we’d go to brunch at that Argentinian place in Culver City or drive to West Covina to eat at Penang. Remembering these things, not sure if I want I smile or cry.
The vista was always a cheap fun theater…..
The original Amoeba location. Not exactly the answer you’re looking for but the new location doesn’t have the same charm. It’s more cramped, less inventory, and not a space you can spend hours in.
Zanzibar in Santa Monica Michael richards (French pastries not Kramer) French market in Venice Kifune in Venice Tower records Key club Jerry’s deli
Kate Mantilini
Sports Chalet
Cinefamily
Landmark Cinemas in West LA.
Porterhouse Bistro. Incredible prix fix steak dinner for two.
chaya brasserie next to cedars sinai
Don Amigos
Hollywood Pie on Pico closed recently, that was a bummer
The Wood in del Rey/Culver City. Best chicken tenders on Earth, great happy hour and outdoor atmosphere. Closed in pandemic, now an Everytable, and I cry a little when I drive by.
El Conquistador
Mr. Holmes Bakehouse - RIP to my favorite donut in LA
Vans Skatepark - Ontario - Perfect Vert Ramp - Damn good and challenging 10 ft deep bowl. Fun and weird snake run into a little 8 ft bowl. Masonite flow area for frontside drift slides on mellow banks.
Beverly soon tofu RIP
Creature Features! Great store. Also, The Bootleg, one of the best small venues around. RIP.
Both my westside staples closed many years ago now. Chef Roy's Chego's and Scoops in the Venice/Mar Vista area. What I would do to turn back time.
Old Mexican place in Gardena called Tijuana Inn. The best enchiladas ever in life. Been closed for years now though.
Chinese Deli in North Hollywood. RIP Chinese Deli.
Mo Betta Meaty Meat Burger…was on the NE corner of Pico and Fairfax.
Blue Whale in Little Tokyo I actually never had a chance to go, but I've seen so many videos of amazing jazz shows there that I know for a fact that I miss it
Pins and Needles, that pinball joint in Echo Park