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When discussing West Hollywood nightlife, the conversation either starts or ends with The Abbey. The iconic club, restaurant, and bar turned 30 over the weekend, with festivities that spilled out onto Robertson, just south of Santa Monica Boulevard, complete with cocktails and a lesser-known menu item that started the entire influential enterprise: dessert.
There’s a massive bakery tucked inside of The Abbey, with a tempting display of red velvet cakes, cheesecakes, apple pies, and ding dongs ready for club hoppers, brunchers, cocktail lovers, or perpetual happy hour seekers. But the massive 12,500-square-foot Abbey experience featuring, in its modern iteration, four full-service bars, DJ booths, dining areas, and go-go dancer podiums had modest beginnings. Owner David Cooley opened the original Abbey in 1991, in the now empty and former Bossa Nova space. Cooley, even then, envisioned a queer-positive space with desserts.
The colorful exterior of the Troubadour in West Hollywood. | Sandi Hemmerlein
Built in 1946, the two-story building that’s housed the Troubadour live music venue since 1957 is probably best known as a legendary hotspot for early-career performances by the likes of such folk-rock titans as Bob Dylan, The Byrds, Buffalo Springfield, James Taylor, Joni Mitchell, Gordon Lightfoot and Neil Young. Elton John made his U.S. live debut there. It’s where future bandmates Don Henley and Glenn Frey met, later to form The Eagles. It’s also said to be where Janis Joplin partied the night away before fatally overdosing on heroin.