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As you know, Downtown is abuzz with new restaurants debuting almost weekly. Amidst the booming commercial market, a restaurant may get lost in the shuffle by no fault of its own. Angelenic certainly does more than its fair share of plugging, but one loft community in particular has adopted a way of ensuring new restaurants get their time in the spotlight.
The Santee Supper Club, created by Community Manager Andrew Ruiz, invites tenants of Santee Court to taste Downtown one new restaurant at a time. An email list, word of mouth and flyers inform the residents of a date, place and and suggested time. The rest is up to them.
Over 45 residents showed at the last location, Tiara Café, giving Ruiz the thumbs up to continue organizing the community project.
The Supper Club (tentatively on a monthly basis) is not the first community event that Santee Court has offered. Pot-luck dinners, themed rooftop grill-outs and holiday parties dot the calendar, lauding Santee as a place to enjoy friends and neighbors.
Now, Ruiz wants to extend that fellowship to his non-Santee neighbors. On the evening of July 17, the next Supper Club event will be meeting at Tranquility Base in South Park.
Ruiz’s method of generating community events through voluntary means should set a standard for other housing developments and individuals who have an appetite for sodality. After all, living where you live and loving where you live are two very different means. Grab a friend, invite a neighbor, pull up a chair and enjoy.
To participate in upcoming supper club events, or for more information on becoming a featured restaurant, contact:
Andrew Ruiz
Community Manager – Santee Court/Village
santeecourt@pacificwestmgmt.com
213-623-8101
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4 comments
This is a great idea and I’m glad someone is taking charge to organize. New restaurants should jump on this if they can handle 45+ diners.
Yeah, that amount of traffic concerned me also for one venue on one night - but I think if attendees are spread over the evening, it wouldn’t be an issue. Those are some details that need to be addressed - not sure how it would be executed.
The club is to alert people who are interested. The flow of the night is dictated by the diners themselves. A flock of 45 do not go at the same time, rather, the diners choose what time fits their schedule on that date with an expectation that they will see/dine with other community members.
Checks totals are individual to a table and parties that require split checks are accommodated.
In addition Tiara Cafe’ offered patrons an appetizer and a glass of wine to kick things off.
The project needs a little fine tuning but I love what they are doing.
This is a great idea. In addition, I think every loft should have their own webdomain which serves as a community message board and information center for residents where things like this would be advertised.
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