FROM PERKS
Glen Plaid. Houndstooth. Birdseye. Pick your autumnal poison from the outstanding selection of virgin wool blazers we’ve assembled from the Italian menswear gurus, Gemelli. Or go for all three, considering they’re all 50% off.
LA VIDA LOCALI
Locali just planted its vegan reubens, breakfast burritos and “badass” breakfast sandwiches into West Hollywood, a neighborhood that has united around just such items before. Strong move, Locali.
BASH BRIDGES
Usually, it’s your LA neighbors moving to Portland. This time, it’s Portlanders becoming new neighbors. We’re talking about Bridge & Burn, a Northwestern haberdasher opening tomorrow night at Row DTLA with drinks, food and lots of cozy jackets and shirts for fall. Not that fall’s even trying.
NOTHING BUT NEST
Say you’re hitting the Lakers game on Friday instead of watching the World Series. Then you’ll want to tailgate at Nest at WP24, where they’re introducing a pre-game Asian night market-style pop-up with dishes like smoked suckling pig and mochi ice cream waffle sandwiches. It’ll help your decisions make more sense.
RÖLLICH THUNDER
Bartender Christiaan Röllich kicks off a monthly, recurring pop-up bar at the Larder this Saturday. He’ll bound himself to strictly handmade ingredients, including the gin going into your negronis and the tonic in your G&Ts. There will also be Dutch bar snacks and gratis Americanos. It’s currently impossible to find something to dislike about this guy.
BEAUTY AND THE BRUNCH
It was late. You were drinking. You failed to observe the spectacular skylight in the center of Beauty & Essex. But now you’re doing Sunday brunch underneath it, making up for lost time over steak-and-eggs, chicken-and-waffle tacos and bacon bloody Marys. In time, you will be forgiven.
DRINKING BUDDIES
We think it’s downright insane. We also think this is why people like the most-watched show on television, ABC’s The Good Doctor. And that, if you’re drinking whiskey this fall, you should try one (or more) of these five bottles…
Hadley Tomicki lives in Los Angeles. He is probably going nowhere on the 10 Freeway this very second.
