With that beautiful three-day weekend in your rearview mirror, it’s time to move on... to planning another three-day weekend. (A rooftop massage probably wouldn’t hurt.) Here are your best new road trip go-tos this fall.
You and your copilot have almost hit wine country when a funny thought enters your head. “Let’s pull over at Bacara and get our bodies rubbed with grape-seed extract while staring at the sea from their new rooftop spa.” It’s not funny ha-ha so much as a really good thought.
Next time your scenic 405 tour concludes in San Diego, jump into this rather stunning 1920s warehouse that’s now a palace of fresh oysters, crab claws and 50 serious cocktails from a Michelin-starred chef. Nice job, San Diego.
Saturdays were made for short jaunts down to Newport for sun, surf... and giant, tree-covered patios like the one at Oak Grill, filled with Sazeracs, crab risotto and a disproportionate amount of blondeness all around you. You remember. Saturdays.
Pacoima has so much to offer. Like the giant mural of Danny Trejo.
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No, wait. There’s also Pac City Brewery, a new outfit making smoked-barley wine, Belgian beer with prickly
pear cactus and a brown ale with baking chocolate. That one’s called Zombie Slobber. Let’s all
just move on.
Maybe you just have time for a quick trip to... Marina del Rey. That’s where you can board a sportfishing boat for a five-hour voyage with Cafe del Rey’s chef. You’ll catch some sea bass, halibut or sculpin, and the chef’ll make lunch out of it. Seems fair.
