Los Angeles, California
Favorites
Republique - Delicious cocktails and food with a really cool atmosphere, great for dinner (the bread with pan-drippings appetizer is perfection)
Phantom Carriage Brewery - Random, awesome goth brewery we stumbled upon (with strong direction from Taylor) with great beers, silent horror films, and metal music. It’s a very welcoming atmosphere (for real!)
Diddy Riese - cheap, amazing ice cream cookie sandwiches in one of the few “walking areas” of LA
Griffith Observatory - great place to hike or stargaze, they also have cool events
Things to do and eat
UCLA campus - kinda nice to wander around
Crazy Fish - cheap, good sushi in a small, fun environment
Urth Caffe - if you're into Entourage ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Rodeo Drive - high-end shopping that LA is known for
The Grove - cool, outdoor shopping mall
Melrose - another small hipster-y area good for shopping and wandering
Amoeba Music - huge store for buying vinyl and CDs; do people still do this anymore?
The Echo - check out their calendar for concerts
Malibu - see Pepperdine's campus, the pier, and wander around the little shopping area. Taverna Tony was my fav greek restaurant there.
Santa Monica - outdoor shopping and promenade good for wandering; the pier also has a ferris wheel
The Getty Villa or The Getty - cool art museums worth a stop if you're heading north
The Edison - they used to have $0.25 martinis on Tuesdays…
