Los Angeles Master Thread

[smart brit]

Thanks all for your help!

[Abet rich]

Thanks all for your help!

No prob. Anytime.

[Super Speed]

Here goes, it's my first time writing a TR so please forgive me for any mistakes with it. I'm on the way back from a trip to LA with my wife and son (6 months old), it was a short vacation but very pleasant and relaxing.

Sunday: 3:30 AM we loaded the car and headed to JFK airport to fly lie-flat business class to LAX (thanks to Dan and Delta ). We had a 7:00 flight, after a 45 minute delay we finally departed and landed at 10:15 AM in LAX. We went straight to National to pick up our car, reserved with the State of California code, 5 Minutes later we were out of the lot with a brand new Buick Lacrosse. We headed straight to our hotel, which was the Marriott Residence Inn Beverly Hills, to try our luck to get early check in. The staff there was very nice and checked us in at about 11:30. The room we got was very nice but the rest of the hotel was a dump, no lobby, no pool etc. and overall it was ugly. We took a little nap as we didn't sleep the night before and only caught a quick snooze on the plane (too busy enjoying first class). After that we woke up refreshed and went for a nice stroll through the Grove then headed to Jeff's for dinner and called it a night.

Monday: We started off the day with breakfast at Pico Cafe and then headed to Griffith Park. We took our son on the merry-go-round and relaxed in the park for a bit and then took a walk around, beautiful park. We headed back to our hotel, put our kid to sleep and had a babysitter come over to watch our son (HT: MC for helping me get the babysitter) while my wife and I went to Ditmas for Dinner. The food in Ditmas was excellent and IME was worth paying the extra $20 for the prime cut. I also ordered the trafficking cocktail upon recommendation from Dan and PG and even though I have an aversion to whiskey, it was excellent!

Tuesday: We woke up a bit late and headed straight to Oxnard for the wine tour and lunch at Tierra Sur. I wish we would've had time to stop at the Malibu Beach on the way but do to time constrictions that wasn't possible. We used highway 1 to get there and the view was spectacular. We got there in good timing, I prayed Mincha in the room with the huge metal thingys and then sat down to Lunch. The Lunch menu was not as impressive as I expected, although I was warned beforehand by Dan, albeit a bit too late. We started heading back and my iPad/GPS went dead so we stopped in staples to buy a charger. After a long drive and 2 stops (for the baby) we finally got back to LA. We took a drive down Rodeo Drive and then went to look at some mansions. After that we went to the Beverly Hills entrance sign and took some photos there. We weren't the only celebrities there , there was some other celebrity having a massive photo shoot.

Wednesday: We got up super early and had the babysitter come again to the hotel (HT: MC for helping me get the babysitter), at 8 in the morning, so that my wife and I can go on the Warner Brothers Studio Tour. The tour was amazing we really enjoyed and we even got to stand on the star where Ellen gives her monologue from! (I don't know if that's standard). After the tour we headed back to the hotel to pick up our son and went to Pico for brunch. From there we continued on to the Getty Museum. We definitely did not give ourselves enough time but nonetheless enjoyed it immensely and I'm not an art type of person. After that we headed back to our hotel and I went out to pick up dinner from, you guessed it, Jeff's!

Thursday: We woke up @3 to catch our 6 o'clock flight, this time we flew United Business, also lie-flat, and booked a separate seat for our son! We originally had a Delta flight Thursday night but that was in economy and only 2 seats. We got a little spoiled so we used 51K Lufthansa Miles to book 3 seats on United LAX-JFK direct. The food was definitely better on this flight than the Delta.

[Yehoshua]

Here goes, it's my first time writing a TR so please forgive me for any mistakes with it. I'm on the way back from a trip to LA with my wife and son (6 months old), it was a short vacation but very pleasant and relaxing...

Nice TR! It sounds like you had an enjoyable time in LA even though the hotel wasn't amazing and your stay was short. Thanks for writing!

[MC]

I second Yehoshua, great TR!
Before anyone asks, I don't babysit... I just helped Super Speed find someone who does

[Super Speed]

I second Yehoshua, great TR!
Before anyone asks, I don't babysit... I just helped Super Speed find someone who does

Lol, I was going to write that you didn't babysit, you just helped me find one!

[esther gee]

Is there any parks in walking distance to Hancock Park?

[EMCC]

Is there any parks in walking distance to Hancock Park?

Pan Pacific Park by Beverly and Gardner

[Super Speed]

I second Yehoshua, great TR!
Before anyone asks, I don't babysit... I just helped Super Speed find someone who does

FIXED

[Abet rich]

Is there any parks in walking distance to Hancock Park?

Gardner park or Poinsettia park but Gardner is much bigger and nicer

[mr. perfect]

Any ideas how to get food down to the sheraton gateway lax

[Yehoshua]

Any ideas how to get food down to the sheraton gateway lax

Uber?

[Abet rich]

Any ideas how to get food down to the sheraton gateway lax

car service

[thaber]

car service

plenty of places will deliver
for a couple extra bucks they can be convinced to go out of their radius

[springles]

What is the best shabbos take out of the 5 in the wiki?

Also what shul should I go to if I am staying at the residence inn beverly hills and want an ashkenazic minyan

[Yehoshua]

What is the best shabbos take out of the 5 in the wiki?

Also what shul should I go to if I am staying at the residence inn beverly hills and want an ashkenazic minyan

PDK is very good, and Ralphs on Pico and Beverwil has a new takeout section, but I haven't tried it. If it's like the Ralphs on 3rd and La Brea it should be good.

You're right next door to Adas Torah (yeshivish) and down the block from YICC (Young Israel of Century City) which is more modern.

There are basically no nusach sfard minyanim in Pico, just ashkenaz and eidut hamizrach.

[Abet rich]

What is the best shabbos take out of the 5 in the wiki?

Also what shul should I go to if I am staying at the residence inn beverly hills and want an ashkenazic minyan

PDK is very good, and Ralphs on Pico and Beverwil has a new takeout section, but I haven't tried it. If it's like the Ralphs on 3rd and La Brea it should be good.

You're right next door to Adas Torah (yeshivish) and down the block from YICC (Young Israel of Century City) which is more modern.

There are basically no nusach sfard minyanim in Pico, just ashkenaz and eidut hamizrach.

Yes. PKD is very good and for minynim you could go to the above or yola or Magen David etc. there is no shortage of minynim and food in LA so you have no need to worry

[MC]

Yes. PKD is very good and for minynim you could go to the above or yola or Magen David etc. there is no shortage of minynim and food in LA so you have no need to worry

That's obvious. His question was in attempt to narrow down the options.

[springles]

Thanks. Is there a kiddush by adas torah?

PDK is very good, and Ralphs on Pico and Beverwil has a new takeout section, but I haven't tried it. If it's like the Ralphs on 3rd and La Brea it should be good.

You're right next door to Adas Torah (yeshivish) and down the block from YICC (Young Israel of Century City) which is more modern.

There are basically no nusach sfard minyanim in Pico, just ashkenaz and eidut hamizrach.

[MC]

Thanks. Is there a kiddush by adas torah?

Yup