LAist: Can Suede Save the Tacky Bonaventure?

Callie Miller

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 17:23:57 -0800

Also, I believe the major escalator scene in Rain Main took place at the good old Bonaventure...right?

Carolyn Kellogg

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 17:20:57 -0800

Also the movie In the Line of Fire: the climax is John Malkovich vs. Clint Eastwood and a whole lot of broken Bonaventure glass.

Callie Miller

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 16:34:52 -0800

Wagonmonster - I agree - their own description of it is almost as creepy as the weird indoor fountains and bizarre shops/businesses on that top floor!

jrb

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 16:28:10 -0800

"I like going to the Bonaventure Brewing Company." Good micro brew for sure. You can always tell from the taste of the beer if a micro brewery keeps their tanks clean and sterile. BBC does. Even though their stout isn't really heavy enough to be a true stout it's still quite tasty. The food isn't bad. For the best, inexpensive happy hour food downtown try McCormick and Schmick's, top of the stairs, across from the Central Library.

Meadowbat

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 15:56:30 -0800

Even though it feels a little predictable to that claim an old, sorta campy thing was cooler than the new cool thing...I will miss the tacky Bonaventure. My college roommates and I spent many happy hours in the rotating bar drinking from movie-camera-shaped mugs and watching L.A.'s freeways from different angles.

deafsound

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 15:53:28 -0800

I like going to the Bonaventure Brewing Company. It's not bad, and I get Happy Hour prices with my student ID. The inside of the Hotel weirds me out though. All that concrete feels weird. Riding the elevators is fun. Great views. Also the Subway there serves cheap pitchers of beer. Yes, that Subway. Get a sandwich and some beer for really cheap.

filipinofetus

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 15:49:57 -0800

I went there last week. It was nice, the ambience was chill, and the staff was "good-looking." However, because it has just opened, their appetizer options weren't available yet because they were just figuring everything out. The general manager was very nice however, and gave us free cheese and crackers as complements to our drinks for free in lieu of the appetizers.

kwirk

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 15:49:17 -0800

Whenever I look at it I think of the last scene in that corny "Midnight Madness" movie about those high school kids going around LA on a wacky scavenger hunt.

WagonMonster

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 15:48:52 -0800

Oh, and their own description makes me never want to go there.

samkim

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 15:48:49 -0800

LA Prime is terrible...thats why. the view is nice though

WagonMonster

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 15:42:44 -0800

I will forever associate it with Ann Jillian http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_a_Living_(1980_TV_series)