On The Martini

The resurgence of Downtown LA is a popular topic among those in the City of Angels. I feel lucky to have

What else do you need to know beside the title of this entry? All right… I’ll elaborate a bit more…but seriously, you shouldn’t need much convincing to join myself, Matt, Tim, and Loewen at our newest Tuesday Night Tradition—to be referred to lovingly as PSK.

Long ago, Matt and I set out to eat at every restaurant on Ventura Blvd. between our house (technically off of Cahuenga) and Laurel Canyon Blvd. Over the past three years we’ve done a pretty good job, but we’re not done yet.

Writing a post about Bootie now is, like my mom would probably say, a little like closing the barn door after the horse has gotten out, but sooner or later you’ve gotta close it or else your hay is going to blow all over the yard and scare your chickens.

Or something.

Anyway, BootieLA is a party that happens the first and third Saturdays of every month at a club called the Echoplex. It’s the brainchild of two SF-based Producer/DJs who go by A plus D (aka DJ Adrian and Mysterious D), and held down month in and month out by resident DJ and co-founder of BootieLA, DJ Paul V.

For more info, pictures, and for what amounts to a love letter to Bootie, click through the Read More link below and take a look.

Ever since my mom came to visit and we took a touristy walk into the W Hotel Hollywood Lobby, I knew I wanted to come back for drinks. The lobby is gorgeous—mostly white with a winding staircase and a huge, sparkling chandelier. It’s also a bar called “The Living Room”–set with comfy (albeit stylish) couches and, according to the website, free wifi, so patrons

Matt Loewen works in Hollywood now (only ONE job these days—a departure from his usual 3-4 jobs at a time…he’s really turning into a slacker…:-)) and because of this fun fact, and my constant desire to do things in H-wood, we decided to make it a somewhat regular thing to grab dinner or drinks when he gets out of work.

Last Thursday Matt and I drove up the 101 to Topanga Canyon and took the winding road straight to the PCH (I suppose that’s the only place it really goes—besides Topanga State Park and the main thouroughfare of Topanga, which are both along the way). Our normal choice of beach is Zuma, some 30 miles north of Malibu. We’ve been going there so long that I forgot there are other public beaches all the way up the Malibu coast, none of which I’ve ever set foot apon. Combined with my desire to go to the Reel Inn, a fish shack just off Topanga on the PCH- this seemed like the perfect opportunity to kill two birds with one stone.