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12/28/09
Oh, Nine
Everything That Was Important in 2009
It was a year of triumph over adversity. It was a year of new beginnings and new late, late endings. It was a year of limber dancers revealed, of culinary legends unveiled…of regal cougars crowned. Fade with us into a dreamy flashback sequence involving the year's nine most enticing endeavors…
A KELLER WAS BORN
Bouchon
When Thomas Keller (or, as he is known to Francophile foodies, God) carved out a sprawling ode to oysters,
Trout Amandine and wine in the Montage Beverly Hills, hungry locals wiped away tears of
joy—and promptly made reservations for sometime in 2011.
- 411:
- Bouchon, 235 N. Cañon Dr (N. of Wilshire), 310-271-9910
TURQUOISE WAS THE NEW BLACK
Cecconi's
It's not often you find yourself enjoying truffle season in the vicinity of models, English accents and Jane
Fonda. Unless you're at the bright blue Cecconi's. Then it's just a Wednesday.
- 411:
- Cecconi's, 8764 Melrose Ave (at Robertson), West Hollywood, 310-432-2000
DANCING WENT HIGH TECH
Mi-6
Even the walls are alive in this gleaming video-game-as-nightclub, where graphics and dancers and TV
vampires all move to the same frenetic beat. Luckily, you can sometimes find naked people in the ceiling to
help you relax.
- 411:
- Mi-6, 9077 Santa Monica Blvd (E. of Doheny), West Hollywood, 310-859-8369
A.O.C. GOT A BROTHER
Tavern
When the women behind Lucques, A.O.C. and the Hungry Cat took to Brentwood, so did you—for pancakes in
the morning, Persimmon Margaritas after work and wine-soaked dinners in the atrium under the right
kind of glass ceiling.
- 411:
- Tavern, 11648 San Vicente Blvd (at Darlington), Brentwood, 310-806-6464
GOING OUT = GOING HOME
MyHouse, Barbrix and Mozza2Go
The line between staying in and staying out got profoundly muddled when
nightclubs and
wine bars started looking an awful lot like your place. Then Mozza
started with the takeout, minds were officially blown, and pizza parties were irrevocably altered.
YOU LIKED TO WATCH
Voyeur
Lithe women fussing with lingerie behind glass, or languorously stretching on the trapeze net overhead. A
slowly undulating sax. Chairs made from well-worn headboards. This place has just one thing on its
mind—Fontina-Chorizo Grilled Cheese Sandwiches.
- 411:
- Voyeur, 7969 Santa Monica Blvd (W. of Hayworth), West Hollywood, 310-255-1110
RABBIT HOLES SURFACED
Wonderland
Mad Hatter silhouettes, a rose garden, wildly inaccurate clocks—we'll go ahead and make a bold
statement. This is the craziest nightspot inspired by a hallucinogenic Lewis Carroll novel we've ever seen
in Hollywood. And you can quote us on that.
- 411:
- Wonderland, 1835 N. Cahuenga Blvd (S. of Franklin), Hollywood, 323-957-1599
CLAWS CAME OUT
The California Cougar Convention
Deep inside a nondescript hotel, cougars took in a stirring keynote address on the state of cougardom,
crowned a cougar queen and pounced upon brave young cubs on the dance floor. It also may have been the first
convention no one left early.
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