Perfect restaurant to have an affair in.
This could be a fun idea. (and inspired by another post - which insisted it wasn't about having an affair).
Of course it, has to be far away from the "other". If you're on the west side - are you safe going downtown? The valley?
Had a friend who had a girlfriend, fell in love with this model turned screenwriter. And he asked her out. He did some research for something interesting and obscure. He found it - a Latino transvestite bar in East L.A. He takes the date there and a few drinks into the evening - in walks his girlfriend! And his comment, priceless "Of all the Latino transvestite bars in the world...."
Anyway, I would say if the "other" doesn't like a particular cuisine - then that settles it.
But someplace obscure and interesting. And if not on the outskirts, in an unconventional setting where you'd probably not run into anyone you knew.
By foodiemahoodie
on Sep 7, 2011 11:00 PM
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Perfect restaurant to have an affair in.
before , during or after the meal?
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Before. Or after. In would be another topic altogether. You're free to run with that one!
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hmmmmm
If you went to FuRaiBo you could sneak out through the door leading to the bar next door and it's usually so crowded it'd be hard to spot someone
OTOH Pacific Dining Car on the westside has a few different rooms where you could disappear for an hour or so
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Pacific Dining Car
1310 W 6th St, Los Angeles, CA 90017
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If you're from the valley, and flush, then I'd say the back booth in Melisse - near the Wilshire St. exit. Then only one of you would be visible. And you can both sit on the hidden from public view side (and have a stellar, romantic meal).
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* Disclaimer: the following suggestion is not an implied endorsement of infidelity:
Soot Bul Jeep in Koreatown. So smoke laden within, no one will detect you through the haze. Also, the sooty bbq smoke will cling to your clothes and thereby mask any parfums or 'other amorous fragrances' henceforth permeating the sullied fabric of your dastardly soul :-)
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That was an impressively intricately thought out response... you've convinced me...
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hey thi, have you been to simon's cafe recently?
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Can't say I have much experience in this field but, speaking hypothetically, I'm not sure I'd want to have an affair in any place with really good food. Because then I'd be tempted to keep coming back, become known as a regular, and then ... well, then you're just asking for trouble. So only the first of the following has food that's any better than execrable:
1) Brodard. Because nobody can find their way to the entrance unless they already know where it is. Plus, if you can manage to look sexy while eating bahn tom to the sounds of Vietnamese dance pop (imagine the Chipmunks covering Justin Bieber), then you're in like Flynn.
2) The Falcon Inn. Because everybody there looks like they're on the lam from *someone*, so complete omerta is guaranteed.
3) Bahooka. High-backed booths, labyrinthine layout, scores of atmospheric fish tanks, flaming day-glo Hilo Hatties to strip your inhibitions.
4) The snack bar atop Mt. Wilson. Amazing views, and several escape routes (bring trail shoes and lots of water).
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Hilarious!
bradbury, you have me LMAO.
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I would think "dark" as in the Brentwood or maybe Jones in WeHo. Also a disguise is always in order as it probably won't be your mate that catches you but one of their friends who just happens to be out for dinner at the same place and sees you "canoodling" with your lover (but you don't see them most likely)...
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Jones
7205 Santa Monica Blvd, West Hollywood, CA 90046
Brentwood
148 S Barrington Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90049
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Actually, they lightened up the Brentwood. Still very dark, but if you are from the Westside, there is a lot of action and probably not the safest bet. For a really safe bet see below.
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The ultimate dark restaurant - Opaque/Dining in the Dark location in Santa Monica
http://la.darkdining.com/
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I win. The Cold Spring Tavern (link below) in an old stage coach station in the hills outside Santa Barbara. After you can head into Los Olivos for wine tasting or into Santa Barbara for .......
http://www.coldspringtavern.com/
A runner up would be Fess Parker's Wine Country Inn in Los Olivos. Two birds with one stone.
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Wine Country
2301 Redondo Ave, Signal Hill, CA
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When I went to college in Santa Barbara in 1968/69 I got a part time job delivering beer for the Coors distributor in Santa Barbara. Because I was the "part time college kid" they gave me the out of town runs. The first time I pulled into the graveled drive of Cold Spring Tavern I thought it looked like a perfect place for a whore house. Close enough to town to get to without too much difficulty, but far enough out you probably wouldn't run into your wife while taking tea with the "ladies" of the afternoon delights. I always had a beer with the bartender on hot days at the Tavern after bringing in his Coors order.
I also delivered beer to the little market up the coast in Gaviota (don't know if it's still there or not).
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The various restaurants / markets in Gaviota, most recently a Sunburst (cult) restaurant, closed many years ago. I still bicycle out there, turning around at those ruins, on my yearly trip to Santa Barbara.
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Ahhhh! The Cold Springs Tavern, a perfectly, remote and very shady place with the requisite romantic history. of being a stagecoach stop and outlaw hangout.
Do they still have the outdoor BBQ on weekends that attracted the biker groups?
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The outdoor BBQ (with the biker groups) is still going on Sunday afternoons. It does attract more than just biker groups (very crowded).
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I was just up at Cold Spring Tavern a couple of months ago and its a place to be seen and very crowded..
Like the Fess Parker Inn idea..
; )
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"he found it - a Latino transvestite bar in East L.A"
Would this happen to be redz bar? 2218 E 1st St
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There's a bar in Downtown, near the Smell, which seems to consist entirely of Armenian transvestite girls, and Mexican guys with handlebar mustaches and huge cowboy hats, hitting on the Armenian transvestite girls. And one lost Canadian guy hitting everybody up for free beer.
I don't know how or why this exists, but it makes me suspect that my life is a lot less interesting than it could be.
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Don't know. But it was a litle over 20 years ago. How long have they been there?
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Unless Casa Vega has changed, it used to be so dark in there you would be hard pressed to have seen if you were having an affair with a man or a woman.
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Casa Vega Restaurant
13301 Ventura Blvd, Sherman Oaks, CA 91423
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Is that the tranny bar on San Fernando road in Cypress park? They have great food there.
Also the Silver Lake lounge use to be a good place to see a tranny show and they had a great
pizza.
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What's the name of the tranny bar that has great food? And what dishes are good there?
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Do you mean the Queen Mary in Van Nuys??
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Loving all the responses..
I would think room service at a swanky 5* hotel would be the best but if it must be a restaurant, I would go complete opposite of where you live/work and I'm still cracking up over the Latino transvestite bar in East LA..
Maybe trek down to OC, up the coast to Montecito/SB or take the ferry over to Avalon.
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yeah, what was the name of the latino transvestite bar with the great food???
thanks.
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Room service at a nice hotel - good idea, but...
I was just watching La Dolce Vita last night. And in it he takes (Anouk Aimee I think) to the outskirts of town to slightly flooded basement flat of a prostitute and spends the night with her - the idea that a hotel is a place where you might be seen. Especially since she's a well known socialite who might be reconized in a hotel. This could be another, slightly different op altogether; "Where to dine when having an illicit affair with a celebrity."
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Living next door to a very famous celebrity, I couldn't imagine not having anonymity..
I know why some of them become recluse.
I still love the Latino tranny bar in East LA..
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LOL!
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Hotel Bel-Air.
While I haven't used it for this precise purpose, I have met some people about some things where we needed complete discretion and it works very well. You don't just happen to "pop in" for a drink or a bite there unless you travel with a separate car just to carry your wallet.
If you actually talk to your SO, you'd most likely know if they were going there. However, you do run the risk that you run into them with someone else as well. ;)
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Hotel Bel-Air
701 Stone Canyon Road, Los Angeles, CA 90077
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lol, i've been wondering if someone is going to cop to having personal experience! I guess not ;) Close though. This does sound like good advice for those with a lot of love to give.
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Given that they are closed for remodeling, you will be eating lite and recreating outside.
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I believe they've reopened haven't they?
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I guess it's 2 weeks and day from now for the grand reopening...(according to their website)
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What restaurant is this reference too?
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Hotel Bel Air
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Given that they are closed for remodeling, you will be eating lite and recreating outside. (originally replied to the wrong post - sorry)
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I've never been inside or heard a thing about it, but from the outside, Formosa Cafe on Santa Monica always looked like the spot for it.
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I ate at the Formosa Cafe once just because of "LA Confidential." Food is average at best.
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Unless your SO is Lebanese or Armenian, I would say Marouch. It's damn good food, but there's hardly every anyone in there.
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The last time I was in Damiano's Mr. Pizza on Fairfax it was so dark inside you could consumate the relationship in a booth and if you muffled the moans the people in the next booth would never know.
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This is a really funny thread - I'm having a ball (hmmm) reading it!!!
; )
Reminds me of a restaurant that used to exist here in the Inland Empire. Had booths with curtains you could draw.
Ah, my lost youth!!!
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Hotel Bel-Air gussy ups that dirty little affair..
Room service items I'd like to see on that tray:
2 bottles of expensive champagne
3 bottle of Ty Nant
Tin of Iranian caviar
Hot fudge sundae
Romeo y Julieta cigar
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As stated elsewhere in this thread, it will all be available again (after being closed for the past 18 months or so) in another 15 days (according to the Bel-Air's website) when they reopen.
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What's Ty Nant?
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http://www.google.com/search?source=i...
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Thanks, Servorg!
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