The Bottle Inn: Everything old is new again
The Bottle Inn opened in Hermosa in 1976 and while the menu changed over the years, the decor didn’t. The cozy space was from another time, the walls festooned with a display case of mini airline liquor bottles and distressed boards with paintings. Wooden chairs, some on the rickety side, flanked tables beneath hanging plants […]
Trust I-Naba chef, more cheese, beer and Italian offerings, Basque and Prohibition events
Big Change In A Little Restaurant… I-Naba opened in a cubbyhole on Highland across from Uncle Bill’s earlier this year, and at first they offered only sushi to go. Recently they switched to a much more unusual business model: offering deluxe omakase tasting menus of sushi at a counter with only eight seats. They offer […]
A Local Icon, The Kettle Restaurant in Manhattan Beach (Video)
Civic Couch brings you another icon institution in the South Bay, The Kettle Restaurant in Manhattan Beach. The Kettle Restaurant has been serving their homestyle dishes in Manhattan Beach since 1973! This video was produced by Civic Couch for Talk About LA.
The Phantom of Redondo Union
Redondo Union High School’s 101-year-old pipe organ was among the first of its kind when installed. But as years pass, the instrument gathers dust in the auditorium’s walls. The first time Walter “Skip” Kennon played the Redondo Union High School pipe organ in the 19, it was as if magic was flowing […]
Ninety-nine year old recalls bygone Manhattan Beach
Anita Koontz Stichter vividly remembers the day in 1933 when the big earthquake hit. She was 15. Her family was living in a little house that her father had built, the first of several he’d build in fledgling Manhattan Beach. The home was on a dirt road rather hopefully named Walnut Avenue, but it didn’t […]