Brunch in the Arts District

 Los Angeles, CA

Mr. Bruncherson ready for brunch

The Arts District in LA

Today we have plans to meet Julie and Doug in The Arts District for brunch (you take the br from breakfast and add it to the unch from lunch and you get brunch).  We took a bus to around the halfway point and instead of waiting for a transfer, we walked through Little Tokyo.

It looked like someone felt the need to empty
the trashcan into the street at our bus stop

Times Mirror Square or The former LA Times Building

There is a sign like this in Fremont Seattle too

Little Tokyo LA

Keeping the community clean

We were meeting at Manuela LA, a cool restaurant inside the Hauser & Wirth gallery.  It was bright, big, and airy.  The menu had a wide variety of food and it was easy to find something we wanted.  

It's a huge space in an open warehouse

The warehouse has great patina

An art map on exposed brick

It's a bright attractive place even without Donna
bringing her own brightness and attractiveness

Natural light pours in

They have their own garden

with fresh veg

and fresh herbs too

and also chickens!

Chickens feed on watermelon scraps and produce great eggs

They even have some citrus 

Brunch was delicious and we even found time to have a cocktail.

My brunch cocktail and our fresh biscuits

My Orange Salad with goat cheese, peanuts, chili powder,
and sliced jalapenos.  Yummy!

After brunch we walked the book store and galleries that are a part of the space.  Again, it was a really large space.  It surprising to see such a large space being used in such an open way.  There aren't a ton of things packed into this property which was nice but also surprising because real estate is so valuable in LA.

Probably Steamboat Willie inspired but still very cool

This piece was giant but I only shot a small portion of it

and then took a selfie

There were anthropomorphic crows in one room

After touring the building we walked to Boomtown Brewery.  It is a new brewery for us and I am very happy Doug and Julie recommended it.  It was a great space with really great beer, and they had Pinball!  2 checklist items at one place!

A cool MG Midget in front of street art

A fake horror movie poster about student debt

Maybe my favorite photo of this trip so far

Entering a new brewery for us!

Boomtown had great murals

and pinball and 2 video games

Sort of a 70s fern bar feeling

A great tap list

and this mural with cats

and this photo realistic mural with cats

I played this pinball machine for the first time. 
I didn't really like it

After touring the place and taking photos we sat down and had a beer and continued our conversations.  Before leaving, I saw a giant heart and thought we should use it to take some photos of us all.  If you are in the area and like breweries, check out Boomtown Brewery, you will like it!

My beer

Donna and yours truly looking marvelous

A shot of that great Owl Mural

We continued our day tour (we also had a night tour you can read about here) of The Arts District by heading to Ice Cream and Coffee.  We swung by Salt and Straw (a famous Portland OR place) and Donna and I split a Rhubarb Crumble w Toasted Anise scoop in a waffle cone.  It was delicious!  And then we headed over to Stumptown Coffee (a famous Portland OR place) for a cappuccino.  After coffee, Julie and Doug were kind enough to drop us off at our Airbnb but not before locking in plans for next Saturday (spoiler, we hang out with Doug and Julie next Saturday).

A little PDX in LA

There aren't 31 of them.  Quality not quantity.

Doug and Julie grabbed slices for
dinner while I took this photo

Good advice for anyone

It's the LA Arts District, what do you expect?

More murals. Look at the headless horse, man!

Coffee Coffee Coffee!

Back at our LA headquarters, we settled in for the evening.  We made our Zankou Chicken Sandwiches that we foreshadowed here, and continued watching Cowboy Bebop on Netflix.  Also, this evening pretty much marks the halfway point of our stay in LA and we have done so much (probably so much that you haven't even had time to read all of the posts) and we still have so much to do and also also (I just made this up, it is sort of a Post Post Script but is used in a run on sentence to make it even less readable), this is only the first stop of six planned stops!  Okay, time to close with food photos just incase you don't know how to make leftover chicken salad sandwiches.

Dicing the pickles

Dicing the white meat

Mix it in a bowl

Add the Garlic sauce using a spatula to get it ALL

Add Mexican table cream

Add Japanese mayo

Mix well

Place on a fresh slice of bread you bought from the
bakery today and forgot to talk about in your blog

Yesterday we had a doggie meet up.  See it here.