Stan Lee
There’s a new rooftop bar by some familiar LA names opening in Culver City’s Citizen Public Market this week. Bar Bohémien opens Wednesday right above the market’s hotspots Jolly Oyster, Mexicology, and Nancy Silverton’s Pizzette.
The adaptive reuse project opened in November, and Bar Bohémien’s space leaned into reinventing the historic 1929 space. The indoor sports an open, vaulted high-ceiling retro vibe with 1920s brickwork, arched window, and leather bar seats. Speaking of windows, they’re everywhere. In early evening hours, Bar Bohémien willcapture LA’s sunset light, as will the rooftop patio that overlooks Culver Boulevard. It’s a good size, clocking in at 2,400 square feet, though the indoor bar will have to remain closed under LA County’s coronavirus guidelines. For now, outdoor capacity is limited to 25 percent, with a 10 p.m. curfew. When these restrictions are lifted, Bar Bohémien will keep late-night hours.
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Having proven himself more than adept at making great coffee and fat biscuits stuffed with fried chicken, Thunderbird Coffee and Bird Bird Biscuit co-founder Ryan McElroy is opening Love Supreme, a pizza bar in East Austin.
McElroy is opening the pizzeria in the old 8 Track bar space at 2805 Manor Road with his brother, Wade, who is the owner of Ma’am Sir, Horse Thief BBQ and Café Birdie in Los Angeles. The kitchen will be led by Russell Victorioso, who previously worked at Café Birdie.
Love Supreme will serve a hybrid New York- and Neapolitan-style pizza with a crispy bottom and puffed and charred crust. The bar menu at the massive space that includes loads of outdoor seating will include draft beers, cocktails, boozy slushies and natural wine.
It’s been a hard year for all restaurants, everywhere, though Los Angeles’s Filipino food scene has taken two particularly brutal blows as a result of the ongoing pandemic. First was the loss of Ma’am Sir, the nationally-acclaimed Pinoy spot on Sunset Boulevard in Silver Lake, which ended its multi-year run back in August 2020. Now LA is mourning the end of another staple in the genre: Lasa, the star almost four-year-old dinner spot at Chinatown’s Far East Plaza. The restaurant, known for its elevated fare served in a moody, mellow evening atmosphere, had for years been among the city’s best places not just for Filipino food, but for a meal period. Now the shop has turned into Lasita, a massively more casual takeout home for rotisserie chicken and natural wine.