Los Angeles Master Thread

[keemster26]

He was vague, but Pico has CY also.

True. But since when is there a CY in pico?

[Dan]

True. But since when is there a CY in pico?

Any bakery

[keemster26]

I meant Cy coffee bean in pico

[Yehoshua]

I meant Cy coffee bean in pico

No, CBTL is only CY on Alta Vista and Beverly Blvd.

[CS1]

No, CBTL is only CY on Alta Vista and Beverly Blvd.

that one is great. (btw... did anyone else see people hanging out and eating there on Pesach? It looked like random neighborhood kids who brought outside food into the walled-in eating area  -- also outdoors but definitely eating on the tables and chairs within the CBTL property.)

[jack]

Thanks all I wanted C"Y
N Poinsettia and Beverly Blvd is what neighborhood ?

[CS1]

Thanks all I wanted C"Y
N Poinsettia and Beverly Blvd is what neighborhood ?

It's this one on 7235 Beverly Blvd in La Brea (across from Fish Grill), corner of Alta Vista. one block from Shaare Tefila/Kanner Hall: https://www.google.com/maps/dir//7235+Beverly+Blvd.,+Beverly%2FAlta+Vista,+The+Coffee+Bean+%26+Tea+Leaf,+Los+Angeles,+CA+90036/@34.0763068,-118.3483739,18z/data=!4m16!1m7!3m6!1s0x80c2b929c407351f:0x5aa857df8f53a7d0!2sThe+Coffee+Bean+%26+Tea+Leaf!3b1!8m2!3d34.0763267!4d-118.3472773!4m7!1m0!1m5!1m1!1s0x80c2b929c407351f:0x5aa857df8f53a7d0!2m2!1d-118.3472773!2d34.0763267

[Yehoshua]

Thanks all I wanted C"Y
N Poinsettia and Beverly Blvd is what neighborhood ?

You know that we just said the CBTL address and you do have access to google maps, right?

[jack]

Got it Amazing thank you very much.

[lifetimedeals]

Is this a decent hotel for one night Courtyard Los Angeles Century City/Beverley Hills?

[Yehoshua]

Is this a decent hotel for one night Courtyard Los Angeles Century City/Beverley Hills?

It's ok.

[lifetimedeals]

It's ok.

Has anybody been here? Some reviews not the best: The hotel itself is extremely old and desperately begs for updating. 8/15

[lifetimedeals]

Can anyone here tell me if this plan makes sense, arriving late Thursday night into LAX sleeping over in Beverley Hills, Friday breakfast at Delice, then start at Grove, Hollywood Boulevard, Rodeo Drive (to see some nice houses), get lunch maybe at Ta-eem Grill or Jeffs, Hancock Park? shop for some shabbos takeout food at Got Kosher head to Santa Monica for shabbos.
Saturday night should I go to Santa Monica pier? Sunday morning Santa Monica pier/beach 3rd St. Promenade, Venice walkway canals, Venice beach board walk, Malibu beach maybe grab lunch at Fish Grill then drive to Tierra Sur do the wine tasting and early dinner, after dinner drive to Griffith Observatory to see the city night view, then check into Andaz.
Monday, Getty center walk around the grounds, Warner Bros studio tour should I skip this? Any other suggestion? Brunch Milky Way or Breakfast, anything else I missed that I should squeeze in here? Ditmas for dinner and head to LAX 8:30, any advice would be appreciated.

[Yehoshua]

Can anyone here tell me if this plan makes sense, arriving late Thursday night into LAX sleeping over in Beverley Hills, Friday breakfast at Delice, then start at Grove, Hollywood Boulevard, Rodeo Drive (to see some nice houses), get lunch maybe at Ta-eem Grill or Jeffs, Hancock Park? shop for some shabbos takeout food at Got Kosher head to Santa Monica for shabbos.
Saturday night should I go to Santa Monica pier? Sunday morning Santa Monica pier/beach 3rd St. Promenade, Venice walkway canals, Venice beach board walk, Malibu beach maybe grab lunch at Fish Grill then drive to Tierra Sur do the wine tasting and early dinner, after dinner drive to Griffith Observatory to see the city night view, then check into Andaz.
Monday, Getty center walk around the grounds, Warner Bros studio tour should I skip this? Any other suggestion? Brunch Milky Way or Breakfast, anything else I missed that I should squeeze in here? Ditmas for dinner and head to LAX 8:30, any advice would be appreciated.

Have you mapped out your itinerary? You're constantly crisscrossing the city, sometimes a few times a day. The items on the list all look good, but the order needs work. LA traffic is a huge factor when driving around, especially--but not limited to--weekdays.  Please look at a map and group items together based on where they're located, propose a revised itinerary and then I'll let you know if it works.

[lifetimedeals]

Have you mapped out your itinerary? You're constantly crisscrossing the city, sometimes a few times a day. The items on the list all look good, but the order needs work. LA traffic is a huge factor when driving around, especially--but not limited to--weekdays.  Please look at a map and group items together based on where they're located, propose a revised itinerary and then I'll let you know if it works.

Mapped out think it’s ok, Friday Rodeo Drive breakfast at Delice, Grove, Hancock Park if time allows, Hollywood Boulevard,  lunch at Ta-eem Grill or Jeffs, Got Kosher head to Santa Monica for shabbos.
Sunday morning Venice walkway canals, Santa Monica pier/ Promenade, Malibu beach lunch at Fish Grill then drive to Tierra Sur do the wine tasting and dinner, drive to Griffith Observatory, check into Andaz.
Monday, Warner Bros studio tour or Paramount, Hancock Park (if missed on Friday) Brunch Milky Way, here might be two hours maybe some local souvenirs shops or any suggestion in the area, Ditmas dinner leave to LAX 8:30, removed the Getty center looks to be out of the way for me..

[Yehoshua]

Mapped out think it’s ok, Friday Rodeo Drive breakfast at Delice, Grove, Hancock Park if time allows, Hollywood Boulevard,  lunch at Ta-eem Grill or Jeffs, Got Kosher head to Santa Monica for shabbos.
Sunday morning Venice walkway canals, Santa Monica pier/ Promenade, Malibu beach lunch at Fish Grill then drive to Tierra Sur do the wine tasting and dinner, drive to Griffith Observatory, check into Andaz.
Monday, Warner Bros studio tour or Paramount, Hancock Park (if missed on Friday) Brunch Milky Way, here might be two hours maybe some local souvenirs shops or any suggestion in the area, Ditmas dinner leave to LAX 8:30, removed the Getty center looks to be out of the way for me..

Here are some random thoughts in no particular order:

• Where in BH will you stay? SLS? I'd go to breakfast then Rodeo Dr.
• The Grove is nice, but gets really crowded on weekends, so go early Friday morning and you'll be okay
• Hancock Park is a residential neighborhood. There's nothing to see that you won't besides some large houses, but they're not worth going out of your way to see, even if it's just a few blocks.
• Once you're by the Grill and heading north, don't even consider Jeff's for lunch; it's way out of the way. Ta-eem Grill, while probably not as good, is at least in the area on the way to Hollywood Blvd.
• By the time you're done with seeing Hollywood it'll be around 3-4pm, which on Friday is already rush hour. Count on 30+ minutes to get to Got Kosher?, which in and of itself may be closed already. If they're not closed, they may be out of food, so pre order and check their Friday hours.
• While you'll be going against the main rush hour traffic driving to the beach in the afternoon, it can still be quite crowded, os plan on 30 or so minutes to get from Pico to Santa Monica
• If you're staying walking distance from the SM Pier and 3rd St. Promenade, just start there instead of at the canals since parking in the area can be hard on Sunday.
• If you want to spend time at Pacific Park itself you may not have a lot of time for everything.
• The Venice Canals are very relaxing, but don't take much time, maybe 20-30 minutes. If you're trying to pack too much into your morning (assuming you don't start at 8am) you may be too rushed to really enjoy them if you're just trying to tick them off your list.
• PCH can be crowded on Sunday, so count on traffic especially with the construction going on now.
• Since most of your itinerary is morning-heavy, you may be left without much to do after lunch in Malibu. Sure, there are loads of hikes, but you don't have those on your list. You may not even be hungry if you go from Fish Grill straight to Tierra Sur for an early dinner (assuming you can make a reservation).
• With wine tasting and dinner, count on at least 2-3 hours there if you don't want to be rushed.
• While the Observatory isn't too far out of the way from the Andaz, it's usually packed on Sunday (I was just there 2 days ago), even Sunday night. Depending on the time of the year, it can be cloudy at night so your view may not be great, though it's a lot more common to have a marine layer in the morning May-July (the June Gloom).
• Getting from WB in Burbank to Pico (Milky Way) is a minimum 40 minute drive with no traffic. There's no quick way to get between those areas, so it'll be city streets.
• Unless you finish the tour by 10:30am, you may not make brunch.
• Two hours between brunch and dinner? Not likely.
• All the souvenir shops are on Hollywood Blvd. Nothing in Pico.

[lifetimedeals]

Beverly Hills courtyard probably, so cutting hancock park, maybe Ta-eem grill too depending on time.
Pacific Park next to grove? Worth it?
Anything to do motze shabbos in Santa Monica?
Plan to take highway 1, Loads of hikes where? I didn’t know and wouldn’t mind if it’s on the way, which do you recommend?
Should I skip the Observatory Sunday night?
Does it make sense to do delice breakfast instead of lunch Monday then go to WB? Or any other breakfast option?

[Yehoshua]

Beverly Hills courtyard probably, so cutting hancock park, maybe Ta-eem grill too depending on time.
Pacific Park next to grove? Worth it?
Anything to do motze shabbos in Santa Monica?
Plan to take highway 1, Loads of hikes where? I didn’t know and wouldn’t mind if it’s on the way, which do you recommend?
Should I skip the Observatory Sunday night?
Does it make sense to do delice breakfast instead of lunch Monday then go to WB? Or any other breakfast option?

BH Courtyard is in Century City, not BH.
GIYF for Pacific Park.
GIYF for PCH. PCH=CA-1
Hikes in the Santa Monica mountain, but you'll get sweaty and may need to shower before dinner in a restaurant like TS.
That's up to you whether you skip the observatory, but don't count on parking up at the top.
You already have Delice for breakfast on Friday, never scheduled it for lunch. It's a breakfast place, not lunch anyway.
Look at the map. Does it look like it makes sense to you go from the Andaz to Delice to WB back to Pico? I wouldn't do that unless I was an Uber driver and that's where the fares took me.

[lifetimedeals]

BH Courtyard is in Century City, not BH.
GIYF for Pacific Park.
GIYF for PCH. PCH=CA-1
Hikes in the Santa Monica mountain, but you'll get sweaty and may need to shower before dinner in a restaurant like TS.
That's up to you whether you skip the observatory, but don't count on parking up at the top.
You already have Delice for breakfast on Friday, never scheduled it for lunch. It's a breakfast place, not lunch anyway.
Look at the map. Does it look like it makes sense to you go from the Andaz to Delice to WB back to Pico? I wouldn't do that unless I was an Uber driver and that's where the fares took me.

it's listed as:Courtyard Los Angeles Century City/Beverly Hills

[Yehoshua]

it's listed as:Courtyard Los Angeles Century City/Beverly Hills

Lots of establishments have BH in their title for association purposes and are miles away from BH itself. The W hotel in Westwood markets itself as West Beverly Hills. There is no such place.