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Los Angeles, CA
Yelping SinceFebruary 2007
Things I Lovedipshits and their dipshittery
My Favorite MovieScenes From A Marriage
My Last Meal On Earthburgers, cheese, greasy everything
Most Recent Discoveryecho park sucks donkey dong
DateLos Angeles, CA 90012
(213) 680-3454
Hama Sushi
Category: Sushi Bars
Neighborhood: Downtown
Silver Lake, CA 90027
(323) 644-8000
Barbarella Bar
Categories: Lounges, American (New)
Neighborhood: Silver Lake
Los Angeles, CA 90012
(213) 680-0344
TOT / Teishokuya of Tokyo
Category: Japanese
Neighborhood: Downtown
Just so bad. Hama (adjacent) is worth the wait. DO NOT go here instead.
Los Angeles, CA 90027
(323) 485-2800
Thai Sabai
Category: Massage
Neighborhood: Hollywood
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8/15/2007
My first visit here was serendipitous.
A devoted patron of cheap and seedy Chinese acupressure joints in New York, I was new to the area and gave this place a go. No two ways about it: the Thai method is the standout. Countless visits to the grotto-like massage chambers of New York's Chinatown rarely got me feeling as uncoiled as I did after an hour here.
A wider variety of yoga-like stretches are implemented to flush out hip and spinal tension. A few involve the petite masseuse threading herself around your abdomen like Gumby. Her barefoot stroll along my hamstrings also felt magnificent. Overall, attention was paid to musculature that went neglected by others. I was sore the day after, but the massage was great--even as good as one at the far more expensive Bliss spa chain.
The contemporary decor is inviting: spotless tile in the waiting area and hall, berber carpeted massage stalls, dim lighting, non-cheeseball tranquil music overhead. Here you'll find a high quality $45/hr massage without the frowziness. If this place had been in New York, I'd have been out of my mind to go anywhere else.
Los Angeles, CA 90028
(323) 467-6404
Starbucks Coffee
Category: Coffee & Tea
Neighborhood: Hollywood
Los Angeles, CA 90034
(310) 736-2224
Father's Office
Categories: American (New), Burgers, Pubs
Damn that's a good burger! The bouncer situation is silly and stupid but I deem it worth dealing with because... damn that's a good burger!
As to the babies on here that have their knickers in a twist over the bouncer, all "Why does a burger place need a doorman?" Burger places don't need doormen, dipshits. Restaurants and bars that are routinely at maximum capacity need doormen. Notice that as a party of four exits, a party of same is allowed entrance. This very complex gatekeeping mechanism not only raises the chances that you may have a place to park your rump once you get in there, but also might ensure that, should a giant bovine grease fire suddenly engulf the pretty wooden ceilings and floors, you're not trampled to death by the 75 extra humans that, according to code, shouldn't even be in the place. The doorman is about this obscure regulatory measure called "maximum occupancy."
What's served here is insulting to Italian cuisine broadly. Eons ago, I'd been burned at the Silver Lake Boulevard location, but when they reopened here, I stupidly doubted my first impression (of pure awfulness) and entertained deeply idiotic thoughts, including but not limited to: "A restaurant so popular couldn't serve such dreadful fare all the time, could it?" And, "I should at least try it twice. Enough time has passed. Perhaps it improved?"
No. It does serve such dreadful fare, always. And it did not improve in two years' time. Learn from me, folks, and heed the wisdom of the adage Dubya knows by heart:
http://www.youtube.com...
[Amazon-style recommendation]
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"Breakfast, lunch or dinner, people are sitting at the bar eating, drinking, talking, reading a book or a newspaper. Couples are tucked into tiny two-tops, catching up over a bowl of hearty onion soup or a plate of charcuterie. Body language is relaxed."
http://www.latimes.com...
[Reader inserts pistol in mouth]
Santa Monica, CA 90405
(310) 828-7937
Rae's Restaurant
Category: Diners
Neighborhood: Santa Monica
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