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Choo Choo Andee

Choo Choo Andee

Hip Hop Honky
#21
#21
Gwyn said:
Yup!
El Coyote.
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I ate there, my friend thought I was crazy for liking the food there, but I thought it was great. Maybe because California is supposed to have much better Mexican food than NY and it was my first time there? Everyone raved about their margaritas, I got a peach one and it was nasty...but the food was great.
 
Fortunado

Fortunado

Candy dying
#22
#22
I stay at the Standard Hotel downtown and they have a popular rooftop bar and when I was there last time I saw Chastity Bono and her grandma. They serve the $$$$ drinks in plastic cups and the DJ looked like he was kicked out of W'mbursg. I go again on Saturday...any shows I should see?
 
Choo Choo Andee

Choo Choo Andee

Hip Hop Honky
#23
#23
The Standard is nice, me and my friends went there after we were already drunk from earlier events....the place is very futuristic looking, I like it......we didn't hang out at the bar though, it was kinda dead, but we ate at that weird late night diner in the hotel....I had a $12 cheeseburger that took about 45 minutes to get, I was so close to leaving. Then we paid $20 to get into the house of blues to hear played out hiphop. Now that I think about it, I was pretty dissapointed with the LA Nightlife, maybe I didn't go to the right places.
 
Fortunado

Fortunado

Candy dying
#24
#24
No, from what I hear, LA is not about nightlife unless you know where the good music is being played. And the Standard was cheap for a very good hotel, our room looked the same as the lobby with a glass-wall shower so I can watch my boyfriend shower while I lay in bed and contemplate the wallpaper that blends perfectly into the curtains. Weird, but nice.
 
Gwyn

Gwyn

Old School
#25
#25
Hm. It sounds like Fortunado is talking about the the Standard downtown and Choo Choo is talking about the Standard on the Sunset Strip.

L.A. sucks for just looking around for something to do. Like, you find out ahead of time who you want to see, or where you want to go, and it's fine, just like any other city. But you can't just randomly hang out on the Strip and expect to have a good time. That's been my experience anyway. Check out the LA Weekly-free paper - for stuff to do.

RE: Mexican food; Well you can't go by me, but I think folks who live here may be jaded because there is SO MUCH of it that they can really be picky. For me, the nuances are negligible. I don't know WHY El Coyote is so popular, really, except for the good cheap Margaritas.
I can't think that a Peach one could be anything else BUT awful!
I guess it's like the Formosa. You don't go there for their food, even though they HAVE food...
 
Fortunado

Fortunado

Candy dying
#26
#26
I am staying downtown, and I love it cuz no else does or even knows where this hotel is (around the corner from MoCA and the Pub Library). WHere are the great Mexican food trucks in H'wood? Isn't there a great one on Vermont somewheres? Let me know.
 
Hawkins

Hawkins

Rogue
#27
#27
I work across the street from the Standard downtown, the drinks are overpriced, but you can occasionally get a good drop in band there. Phantom Planet and the Foo Fighters have both done sets when I was around.

Good Mexican food trucks don't exist in hollywood. They're near USC or Culver City from my experience.

If you want make the drive, do the double dip of Tito's Tacos and Johnnie Pastrami in culver city, which are right around the corner from one another.
 
Fortunado

Fortunado

Candy dying
#31
#31
I ate at El Chollo the other day ANd it was awesome.

I went to Ivy at the Shore in Santa Monica last night and that was meh but we were guests so I didnt care, the surf afterwards was awesome, never came near the killing field earlier that day
 
Fortunado

Fortunado

Candy dying
#33
#33
Just returned LA and I am convinced now. I love it and may have found an apartment in Los Feliz Village too! Yay! People make eye contact with you there.

Oh, "meh" means the place was magnificent but the food was not stupendous. The service and the wine were Excellent too. Believe me, that is not my kind of restaurant, El Chollo and Fred 62 are more my speed.
 
Gwyn

Gwyn

Old School
#34
#34
FRED 62!! That's so funny. I have a lot of friends who live in Los Feliz, and they go to Freds all the time. Well yesterday we went to the sister restaurant called Air stream in Beverly Hills. I had a head of lettuce salad! Crazy.
Anyway, the waitress actually thanked us for being so nice and begged us to come back! LOL!
I guess it all depends where you are, how nice the people seem.
 
Gwyn

Gwyn

Old School
#36
#36
You don't go to the Grove to SHOP...You go to eat and see a movie. For dancing waters, and music in the grass. For the Farmer's Market.
The GAP is too fancy for you?
 
Choo Choo Andee

Choo Choo Andee

Hip Hop Honky
#38
#38
The farmers market was fun....I liked the little soda shop that had over 100 kinds of soda from all over.......This thread gives me butterflies....MOVING TO LA....hmmm......maybe.
 
Fortunado

Fortunado

Candy dying
#40
#40
Yes, Gwynn you are right but boyfriend had to look at store spaces and his schedule was the priority...after hotel we stayed at a friends apartment on Orange Grove at Beverly...everytime I passed CBS I kept saying in an announcers voice...

"Live, from CBS Television City...in Hollywood...it's"
 
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