la live adds two names to dining lineup
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Joining an impressive list of restaurants expected to appear at LA Live this December are two smaller names on the Southern California dining circuit.
First reported by Eater LA, Manhattan Beach’s seafood restaurant Rock’N Fish has been pulled onboard, becoming location number two for the casual eatery which sports a beer-guzzling goldfish as its mascot.
Rock’N Fish serves all the expected surf and turf plates in an old-sailor’s-pub-for-the-family setting at slightly higher-than-moderate food prices.
Over 300 wine choices and a long list of specialty martinis dominate the bar menu, including the famous Navy Grog drink as an ode to Hibachi Restaurant — a forty-year institution which occupied the same downtown Manhattan Beach space taken over by Rock’N Fish in 2000.
AEG has also cut a deal with Lawry’s Carvery, a quick service deli in the same restaurant family as Beverly Hills’ classic steakhouse Lawry’s The Prime Rib, to take the 2,800 square-foot space next door to New Zealand Natural Ice Cream.
Hand-carved sandwiches, homemade kettle chips, soups and garden salads are your lunch options, but dinner gets a little more fancy with platters of that famous prime rib, barbeque beef brisket and cooked desserts.
Lawry’s Carvery currently operates locations in Westfield Century City mall and Costa Mesa’s South Coast Plaza. The third location, under construction now for a December arrival, will be open Monday through Thursday 11:00am to 10:00pm, Friday and Saturday 11:00am to 11:00pm, and Sunday from 11:00am to 9:00pm.
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wooohoooo, it just keeps gettig better and better!
I mentioned the Lawry’s Carvery going into LA Live awhile back on this site, I’m glad to see some renderings of the location. It looks nice.
Lawry’s sounds delicious! But what ever happened to PF Changs coming in?
Ooh, very exciting.
I’m thinking “Lawry’s Carvey” is a typo, though (Lawry’s Carvery is spelled correctly later in the post.)
The PF Chang’s was replaced by Fleming’s. Fleming’s is taking the location that showed signage and the entrance to PF Chang’s in an older rendering.
btw, pf chang and fleming’s are owned by the same guy - paul fleming chang, get it ? ;)
^ actually, his name is just paul fleming. lol.
Does anyone know how many more spaces are left to fill ?
Frank: Not sure if there are any spaces left. We’ll try to find out for you.
I don;t think there are any more..i was just there today, walking around and i was the only person in the plaza..no rent-a-cops, definetly no people anywhere…it actually was a little scary, then i tought about how in what, 3 months? this entire area will be populated almost 24/7, and when the Ritz opens..Wow is all i can say.
Alex: I am over there every other day and think the same thing - how crazy is this place going to be in 3 months or so?
Today we went for a walk that way and I was wondering who will use the prject more - guests from out of town or downtown residents? I’m pretty sure those visiting the LA area will be the major target group but it certainly will be a welcome choice for those of us living in the area.
Brian: LA Live was designed to attract out-of-town tourists, that is why it was built directly adjacent to the Convention Center. For thirty years, ever since the convention center was constructed, the Los Angeles Convention and Visitors Bureau complained about the isolated location and the lack of both accommodations and tourist attractions for those people visiting Los Angeles as conventioneers. The bureau claimed that Los Angeles was losing millions in potential revenue to other southland cities like Anaheim and San Diego that had greater tourist amenities within easy walking distance of their municipal convention facilities. This is why the city government has offered such lucrative inducements to the developers of both the Staples Center and La Live and it is why such a premium was put on building new hotels to offer lodgings to the anticipated out-of-town visitors, much to the chagrin of the preexisting hotels like the Bonaventure.
Will locals visit LA Live? Sure, just like they go to Hollywood/Highland, the Grove, City Walk and Downtown Disney and the other predesigned and heavily patrolled shopping districts that offer the simulacrum of the urban experience within what is perceived as a safe environment but the real motivation was to bring more tourist dollars into the city coffers. The promoters have hyped LA Live as the “Times Square of the West” and just like the real Times Square it will act as a draw to curious tourists far more than the local denizens of the city.
It will certainly add to the impression of South Park as the “upscale” neighborhood of Dowtown.
I hope that with city of Los Angeles or the small business owners are somehow able to “connect” all the different parts of downtown and make it more cohesive. I would love to see the upscale part of downtown, take a streetcar similar to SF’s cable car to broadway, and then be able to walk the historic core and finish up in jtown/chinatown.
A few infill projects on our empty lots should contribute towards this happening.
Does anyone know why developers don’t just build parking structures with retail on the ground level to help with this cohesiveness? I am sure they are expensive but so is real estate in downtown and one parking structure although not the most aesthetically pleasing will take the place of 7 surface lots and also add retail.
I think we already have one of thses garages u/c…its right next to the market lofts, and i believe it has a pretty huge amount of retail and spaces. The reason for this was to be able to empty out the lot across the street for contsruction of the proposed park tower.
I meant more in general for the downtown area as a whole. Maybe just have a fewer large parking structures near public transportation on the outer skirts of downtown. That way people can drive and park or take public transit and then either walk or take the cable cars around downtown.
I am wondering if this is going to be the trend going forward.
#16.
I think as downtown continues to develop, this will happen naturally. For the time being, we need to fill in restaurants in our empty ground level retail (e.g. pannini cafe and nickel diner), lease/sell the empty condos, finish the original adaptive reuse projects that have been earmarked for development and/or reconditioning.
After that happens, we should start to look at our three mega projects: grand ave, la live, and bringing back broadway.
At the same time, we need to think about the downtown connector and the street car, and how they can help shape development.
Once ALL of that happens, with proper zoning/planning, infill will happen naturally. You will see parking garages with ground level retail, less deadzones, and projects that help connect different neighorhoods, but that is a solid decade away from happening on a large scale.
Lawry’s Carvery just announced its hours for the LA Live location. They’ve been added to the post and are as follow:
Monday - Thursday 11:00am to 10:00pm
Friday - Saturday 11:00am to 11:00pm
Sunday 11:00am to 9:00pm
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