For once, the weekend was better than the book.
Meet your Perks: 1) The world’s smallest earphones—used by the Secret Service and the FBI. 2) One-of-a-kind watches from the golden age of watchmaking. 3) 20% off the world’s sexiest, ultraportable hi-fi stereo from Geneva Lab. The Swiss really outdid themselves this time.
If you’re craving some tequila tonight, you could hit some bar... or Fred Segal, where they’re giving the stuff away. Tonight, their massive fall sale begins, including Band of Outsiders and Rag & Bone at half off. It’s harder to get a new shirt at a bar without things ending poorly.
The 9,452nd Umami, now in the Arts District, is the only place you can get something called the Arts District Manly Burger. Apparently, the recipe for manliness includes a bacon-beef patty topped with pork belly, beer-cheddar fondue and baconnaise, on a bacon-fat-griddled bun. The beer-cheddar fondue is the feminine side.
There’s one wine-shop strategy that works every time: go to great wine shop where everything is good, pick whatever. Related: the man behind that great wine bar Lou just opened one next to SQIRL, filled with unusual bottles like a rare Mendocino valdiguié. Nothing worse than an un-rare valdiguié.
It’s been too long since your last Thai bender. (Even if you had Thai last night.) Good thing the Paramount lot is becoming one big Thai market on Sunday, overstuffed with food from Jitlada, Night + Market, Sang Yoon and Pok Pok’s Andy Ricker. Basically, the Thai-food dream team.
Monday night, you’ve got two options. 1) Go to Delphine for an all-you-can-eat feast of lobster, clam chorizo and lobster bisque for 42 bucks. 2) Go to Delphine for dollar oysters. 3) Don’t go to Delphine. Like we said, you’ve got two options.
