Neighborhood Watch

Asweet and Harajuku Open in 90210; The Gold Room Gets A Make-Over

The Gold Room
The Gold Room Photo: Hadley Tomicki via L.A. Taco

Beverly Hills: ASweet has opened on South Beverly, with over 200 kinds of specialty candy, a boutique, and jewelry store. [DailyCandy]

Harajuku has opened for organic Japanese crepes, gourmet tea, and hand-brewed Intelligentsia coffee. [FoodGPS]

Downtown: The Farm of Beverly Hills offers pink colored Oreos called “farmeeohs” at all three of their locations, with proceeds going to help fund mobile mammogram units. [BlogDowntown]

Echo Park: The Gold Room has made some interior adjustments, bringing more talk on whether it’s a gentrified bar or still in the service of the neighborhood working man. [TheEastsider LA]

Echo Park Donuts has re-opened to booming business and an ecstatic neighborhood. [The Eastsider LA]

Hollywood: A West Coast outpost of The Supper Club, an international restaurant mixing entertainment and dining, plans to open next spring in The Vogue Theater. [Eater L.A.]

A Taste of Life vegan restaurant has closed, but will continue selling pre-packaged items around town. [QuarryGirl]

Los Feliz: Desert Rose has expanded their happy hour to four hours during weekdays, with new menu items and signature cocktails like vanilla mango mojitos.[Desert Rose]

Venice: After A Taste of Abbot Kinney, Joe’s will hold a cocktail competition pitting its bartenders against mixologists from Comme Ca, Church & State, and Boa on Sunset, with the drinks available to the public for $10 each. [L.A. Magazine]

West Hollywood
: Doughboys is back following a closing last year over zoning issues. With a new exterior, Doughboys plans to re-open soon. [BlackburnAndSweetzer]

Asweet and Harajuku Open in 90210; The Gold Room Gets A Make-Over