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kleinbl00  ·  3191 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Grappling with hipster-hate

Ha! Dude, I spent 9 years in LA. The real shops don't need to blow a paragraph on why you should drink Voss over Aqua Panna. They just make a choice for you.

This place - which I hadn't heard of - boasts its proximity to this:

Which basically means it's a block or two from the SAG building where Secrest studios is which I've done a couple seasons of work at and I kinda know that neighborhood, you know? And one thing I can tell you about those lights is that they're crawling with selfie-snapping tourists 24-7 and five will get you ten, tourists need the soft sell on why they should pay $10 for a bottle of Voss ($6-8 being the going rate on Abbot Kinney). I mean, shit - they've got two different menu items involving wagyu beef, which any foodie worth their salt knows doesn't exist.

It's a tourist trap, not a hipster joint, which is its own terrible punishment but kind of off-topic for the discussion at hand.





ecib  ·  3191 days ago  ·  link  ·  

If I owned a shop I would love to have an weird installation that induced hordes of tourists to take selfies nearby. It's like a magical conveyor belt.