LA/OC area thread

[HaoleToYouToo]

Anything going on week of 18th-22nd. Will be in Ontario area for work that week. Will have car, willing to drive within reason.

Agree w/ swivelhips , Homage for sure. Also these two:

Sour Cellars
9495 E 9th St Ste B, Rancho Cucamonga, CA 91730
sourcellars.com
(North of the Ontario airport)

Arrow Lodge Brewing
720 E Arrow Hwy c, Covina, CA 91722
arrowlodgebrew.com
(near an In-N-Out, in case you're in the area & need to use the john...)

...& super close to Homage is...

Rookery Ale House
171 W 2nd St, Pomona, CA 91766
rookeryalehouse.com

 

[realmz]

Anything going on week of 18th-22nd. Will be in Ontario area for work that week. Will have car, willing to drive within reason.

Would strongly agree with Homage suggestions. Conversely, I'd avoid King's Brewing. If you do brave the freeways and drive closer to LA (about an hour if traffic cooperates), it will be LA Beer Week. http://calendar.labeerweek.org/ Lots of events. Downtown LA is probably your best bet -- Highland Park Brewery, Modern Times, Mumford, Mikkeller Bar, fun food.

Drive to Orange County is a bit closer, but not as densely packed. Standard stuff.

 

[FATSH1TTY]

Would strongly agree with Homage suggestions. Conversely, I'd avoid King's Brewing. If you do brave the freeways and drive closer to LA (about an hour if traffic cooperates), it will be LA Beer Week. http://calendar.labeerweek.org/ Lots of events. Downtown LA is probably your best bet -- Highland Park Brewery, Modern Times, Mumford, Mikkeller Bar, fun food.

Drive to Orange County is a bit closer, but not as densely packed. Standard stuff.

Will be around OC area a bit. Actually staying in Santa Ana on Thursday night, so plan to hit some stuff up before I fly out Friday morning.

Thanks for the recs guys

 

[chemman141]

Will be around OC area a bit. Actually staying in Santa Ana on Thursday night, so plan to hit some stuff up before I fly out Friday morning.

Thanks for the recs guys

Make sure to hit Green Cheek!

 

[FATSH1TTY]

Thanks for recs guys- hit up homage today.

Some of the nicest folks- cool spot if not a little too hipster. Good beers. No sours on tap, but nice hops and pilsners.

Would totally send someone there for beers in future.

 

[chemman141]

Thanks for recs guys- hit up homage today.

Some of the nicest folks- cool spot if not a little too hipster. Good beers. No sours on tap, but nice hops and pilsners.

Would totally send someone there for beers in future.

If you think that's hipster, wait until you go to Highland Park Brewery (if you plan on it) haha

 

[FATSH1TTY]

If you think that's hipster, wait until you go to Highland Park Brewery (if you plan on it) haha

Didn’t make it. Monkish was enough hipster for me.

Good beers. I’d say green bench was probably the best of the blends. Hit up 4-5 breweries tonight around town, I’d say the let down would be bottle Logic honestly.

 

[chemman141]

Didn’t make it. Monkish was enough hipster for me.

Good beers. I’d say green bench was probably the best of the blends. Hit up 4-5 breweries tonight around town, I’d say the let down would be bottle Logic honestly.

Yep, unless they have a BA stout on that brewery is worthless. It honestly blows my mind that they can brew such great stouts, but such terrible everything else.

 

[swivelhips1]

There is a "barrel fermented pilsner with galaxy" at HPB chinatown right now. Anyone try it or know anything more about it?

 

[DCLA]

There is a "barrel fermented pilsner with galaxy" at HPB chinatown right now. Anyone try it or know anything more about it?

If it's on I'll report back. Stopping by with bird22 before the Dodgers/Cubs game....

 

[StonedRaider]

There is a "barrel fermented pilsner with galaxy" at HPB chinatown right now. Anyone try it or know anything more about it?

Just had it on Saturday night. Very earthy feel to it. The oak is noticeable more so than the hops. I enjoyed it but the experience was more akin to drinking a saison than a Pilsner.

...or maybe I just don’t know what the **** I’m talking about. I should have probably prefaced it by saying that I was about six beers deep when I tried it.

 

[DCLA]

Goodie Barrel

Reminds me of little bit of Sue which is a BA IPA. Nice mellow hoppiness. Much less than the other hoppy pilsners. Has that dry bite from the oak. Enjoyed the **** out of it.

 

[swivelhips1]

Goodie Barrel

Reminds me of little bit of Sue which is a BA IPA. Nice mellow hoppiness. Much less than the other hoppy pilsners. Has that dry bite from the oak. Enjoyed the **** out of it.

FTFY

But damn does this sound tasty. Did you try that other new sour?

 

[DCLA]

FTFY

But damn does this sound tasty. Did you try that other new sour?

Thanks. My old app I used stopped working so I had to download a new one. It looked fine when I uploaded it. Anyone recommend a good app for uploading photos?

 

[chemman141]

Thanks. My old app I used stopped working so I had to download a new one. It looked fine when I uploaded it. Anyone recommend a good app for uploading photos?

imgur FTW

 

[swivelhips1]

I am trying to put together some biere de gardes and would really like to try Homage La Befena again. One of my favorite beers of 2017. Posted in the ISO/FT forum but I know a lot of you don't hang out over there very often. Not sure what it might take for one of them, let me know if anyone has an extra and we can probably work something out.

 

[BigFrank]

New brewery in Long Beach.





Pils and lager are weird and hard to identify. Pale is decent. IPA is really nice. The stout was more of smoked beer with no head.

 

[walterfredo]

Anyone care to share some food recommendations in the greater LA area between about Venice/Santa Monica area and HPB Chinatown area? Or is it just too stupid/vague of a question? And too large an area? Preference to things on the healthier spectrum. Open to any style and price range as long as it’s casual dress and I dint have to wait an hour to get a table. In town for a couple days this weekend staying in Venice but will be going to HPB on Saturday.

 

[shanrath]

Anyone care to share some food recommendations in the greater LA area between about Venice/Santa Monica area and HPB Chinatown area? Or is it just too stupid/vague of a question? And too large an area? Preference to things on the healthier spectrum. Open to any style and price range as long as it’s casual dress and I dint have to wait an hour to get a table. In town for a couple days this weekend staying in Venice but will be going to HPB on Saturday.

In Santa Monica, Rustic Canyon’s excellent upscale farm-to-table, but it’s certainly on the expensive side. Gjelina/Gjusta are near where you’ll be staying and, while also pricey, are excellent. On the cheaper end, Versailles is a very solid chain of Cuban restaurants, and they have a few locations near Culver/Century City (essentially on the way downtown from the west side). Destroyer and Loqui are also near Versailles and quite good.

 

[walterfredo]

awesome. thank you.

what about closer in to Venice? We are near Rose and Pacific. Seems to be a ton of Sushi spots. Any specific recs (of any kind) in that area.

also, Venice Ale house worth a stop? Tap list looks rather pedestrian.

 

[chemman141]

awesome. thank you.

what about closer in to Venice? We are near Rose and Pacific. Seems to be a ton of Sushi spots. Any specific recs (of any kind) in that area.

also, Venice Ale house worth a stop? Tap list looks rather pedestrian.

najas place and fathers office. Najas has an amazing tap list, fathers office has a great burger (and decent tap).

Edit: Najas isn't the place I was thinking of as its a bit south, there is a good taproom in SM but I can't remember the name for the life of me.

 

[swivelhips1]

awesome. thank you.

what about closer in to Venice? We are near Rose and Pacific. Seems to be a ton of Sushi spots. Any specific recs (of any kind) in that area.

also, Venice Ale house worth a stop? Tap list looks rather pedestrian.

Library Alehouse is probably your best tap list in the venice/santa monica area. The Sawtelle zone is your go-to Japanese food area on the westside. Sushi Tsujita is good there. If you go to HPB Chinatown, then Sushi Gen is close and very good. You could also go to Mumford if you were at Sushi Gen. LASA is Filipino food and one of my very favorite restaurants in the city and very close to HPB Chinatown.

 

[swivelhips1]

Gjusta

Go here, eat the awesome food, and get some quintessential westside LA people watching in.

 

[chemman141]

Library Bar is probably your best tap list in the venice area. The Sawtelle zone is your go-to Japanese food area on the westside. Sushi Tsujita is good there. If you go to HPB Chinatown, then Sushi Gen is close and very good. You could also go to Mumford if you were at Sushi Gen. LASA is Filipino food and one of my very favorite restaurants in the city and very close to HPB Chinatown.

Library was the one I was thinking of! That place is fantastic, highly recommended.

 

[walterfredo]

perfect. I've been to Library several times, just didn't realize it was that close to where we will be. Gjusta looks dope. Gracias amigos.

 

[cquiroga]

Anyone care to share some food recommendations in the greater LA area between about Venice/Santa Monica area and HPB Chinatown area? Or is it just too stupid/vague of a question? And too large an area? Preference to things on the healthier spectrum. Open to any style and price range as long as it’s casual dress and I dint have to wait an hour to get a table. In town for a couple days this weekend staying in Venice but will be going to HPB on Saturday.

BacoShop in Culver City has tasty fast casual food for a quick, delicious bite of LA goodness. Order the Chile Shrimp baco and thank me later.

GUERRILLA TACOS!!! In Arts District, the new brick and mortar restaurant opens to the public TODAY at 5pm. Quite possibly my favorite damn food in all of the land. I woudn't expect a 100% spot-on, perfect experience in these first days after opening (I was at the Friends & Family night a couple of days ago, and it was good but there were some issues with temperature and service), but IT'S STILL FUCKEN GUERRILLA TACOS. Eat it.

Seconding Gjusta/Gjelina and Tsujita and Destroyer and Rustic Canyon. All tasty spots. Gjusta/Gjelina do some amazing ******* things with outstanding produce. Destroyer is very mannered and some might say pretentious, but I love it. You can eat a lovely, very clean meal there. Rustic Canyon is generally more of a neighborhood gastropub, so you'll probably want the burger (and be handsomely rewarded in flavor), but you could probably eat something healthy there too and have a fine meal.

Other thoughts on some healthy stuff... PYT downtown has some fantastic vegetables (same chef/owner as BacoShop, this is his "vegetable restaurant"). Madcapra at Grand Central Market (downtown) has delicious veggie dishes as well.

EDIT: If you're in a pinch downtown, or eating on-the-go or just late at night, KazuNori (right near PYT) has excellent, excellent hand rolls that crush every ******* hand roll you have ever had in your life. They usually have an epic line of afterpartyers and mid-partyers, but you can order takeout (cut rolls, so slightly different menu but still delicious) and eat outside at a communal table. It's no-frills, and a quick meal, but the quality is just outstanding. Open until 12am.

 

[Gaseous Clay]

Hey y'all. First time living back in LA since I was a teenager. Anyone have any good recommendations for beer bars in the valley? My wine locker facility is on the same block as Macleod ales, anyone try their beers yet?

Also, as a side note, best taco truck in the valley?

 

[swivelhips1]

Also, as a side note, best taco truck in the valley?

its a physical location and maybe not that close to you, but el faro is my all time favorite al pastor

 

[Gaseous Clay]

its a physical location and maybe not that close to you, but el faro is my all time favorite al pastor

Definitely out of the way but Im not opposed to traveling for good food. Thanks for the recommendation.

 

[BigFrank]

Anyone know if HP sold out of their pilsner cans yesterday? Thinking about going there when they open if they still have some.