help me identify this restaurant in Hollywood

[JeniH]

There is this restaurant somewhere in Hollywood where people can ride their horses to and hitch them right out front. There is also a group of people on horseback who ride to this restaurant during sunset once every week. WHATS THIS PLACE CALLED? It sounds like a lot of fun. Anyone here been? Is it good?

[Curt]

Are you thinking of Sunset Ranch?

Link: http://www.sunsetranchhollywood.com/n...

[JeniH]

YES!!!!!!!!!
THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Jerome]

HEre's something I wrote a little lower on the page - edited for you

"Last idea, but really for a Friday night. There's something you can't do in every major city =- Sunset Ranch stables has an outing at 5pm, you are in a group, rent horses and ride with a guide over the hills from hollywood through griffith park into the Valley for dinner (not the greatest dinner but dinner) and then back. It's 3-4 hours, and costs something like $40 but I don't remember if that includes the food.
The following website has contact information for two such rides; I don't think they're completely up-to-date but they have phone numbers for more current info.
http://www.laadventures.com/GiddeeUp.html
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Link: http://www.laadventures.com/GiddeeUp....

[kc girl]

As per Curt's response (wow, good go-figuring!), you actually eat at a place in BURBANK called
VIVA FRESH MEXICAN RESTAURANT
and the price of your meal is not included in the ride price, it's additional. See, http://vivacantina.com/

My brother likes that restaurant a lot and weened his kids to it also (its kid friendly in the back room) (then bought his daughter a horse). He's taken me there a few times. The salsa is good (mild). The food is pedantic 80s gringo Mexican (which is actually pretty good if you like that) (And, their shredded chicken is also what Chowhound David Kahn was looking for a while back). They also offer steamed or grilled veggies, burgers, and pizza.

You park your horses at the posts at the far end of the cement parking lot and can walk in the back door that's closer than the front door around the corner. (But, one person has to tell them you're there.) The ride is 90 minutes there, eat, and 90 minutes back. You can also rent a horse from Sunset Ranch in Hollywood by the hour (available also for kids yonger than the 16-year-old restriction for the Sunset Dinner Ride.
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You can also rent a horse by the hour ($20 first hour-cash only) at Griffith Park Stables [phone] in the LA Esquestrian Center next door to that Mexican restaurant. A guide comes with the rental and you start by touring around the Equestrian Center and then into the Griffith Park hills. (It used to be Pickwick Stables - we used to go without a guide, be able to run hard around a track, and then cool the horses on a slow ride through the Griffith Park hills, but that track isn't there anymore - so it's a slow walk with a little trotting).

Anyway, since Viva Fresh restaurant is practically next door to the LA Equestrian Center, you can do that to if you don't have as much time to ride from The Hollywood Sign and back with Sunset Stables dinner. And, you can walk around the Equestrian Center that is absolutely classy, kept up, and beautiful. (Although, they do not have a public bar/restaurant anymore.)

(and, there are other places around there to eat as well. See, http://dinosburbank.com/ and
http://www.chowhound.com/california/b...

And, per Jerome's response and link herein, there are many other places offering horse riding.

The LA Equestrian Center "Griffith Park Stables" also has a ride, then a BBQ dinner at their location (through October each year) (But, probably a little more tame the the margaritas and entertainment at Viva Fresh.)

[Baby Ruth]

the shredded chicken is awful. it comes from a can. the food is dreadful. i used to eat there every friday night as a child. it was gringo but good. now it's terrible. i mean, how hard is it to make a decent quesadilla. the place has gone terribly downhill.