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When the Palisades Fire tore through coastal Los Angeles last month, it obliterated not only the sprawling mansions of celebrities, but also two seaside mobile home parks where hundreds of retirees and other long-time residents clung to a middle-class lifestyle in one of the area’s last bastions of affordability.

Now, local and state officials will reveal just how far they’ll go to ensure the recovery preserves housing for Angelenos who aren’t rich. Their response could set a precedent as California faces a likely future of more frequent and intense natural disasters on top of a statewide housing crisis. And the fate of the two parks, Palisades Bowl Mobile Estates and Tahitian Terrace, may foreshadow how climate change could affect other mobile home owners in California.

With the fire fully contained, displaced park residents say they’re no closer to answers about the future of their close-knit neighborhoods. The owners of Palisades Bowl Mobile Estates say they’re weighing their options.

Two big questions remain: Will the state or the city of Los Angeles constrain what park owners can do with their land in order to preserve affordable housing in the area? And will officials pony up any money to help them do it?

The two parks may have been more glamorous than most of California’s other nearly 6,000 mobile home parks, with their stunning views of the Pacific Ocean and a mix of two-story luxury models alongside modest trailers. But residents still face challenges that can make a mobile home owner’s path to disaster recovery more difficult than that of single-family homeowners.

For one, they’re more likely to be uninsured or underinsured, due in part to insurers’ reluctance to cover manufactured homes, said Ryan Sears, a policy advocate for Neighborhood Partnership Housing Services, a nonprofit affordable housing developer that builds fire-resistant mobile homes. On top of that, the parks were located in a state-designated high-risk fire zone.

“You’re in what the state is saying is one of the worst possible areas to have a home, and me as an insurer with a bias against manufactured homes, I’m looking at that and thinking that’s just a box of matches sitting in the middle of a ring of fire,” Sears said.

Since residents owned their homes but leased the land underneath them, whether and when they’re able to rebuild will also depend on whether park owners choose to replace infrastructure damaged in the fire.

“If you’re a [single-family] homeowner elsewhere in the Palisades, as terrible as it is to have lost your home, at least you retain the right to return to the land,” said state Sen. Ben Allen, a Democrat who represents Pacific Palisades. Mobile home residents, by contrast, “don’t even know what the plan is,” he said. “There’s an additional layer of uncertainty and a potential for total loss.”

An aerial view of the Palisades Fire devastation at the Palisades Bowl Mobile Home Park.

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Residents wait for answers

While home values in the parks ballooned in recent decades, surpassing $1 million in some cases, residents who bought in years ago were paying as little as $600 per month for rent-controlled lots, not including the cost of their home. That made the area a haven for everyone from retired couples to supermarket employees, Sears said.

Nicole Miller, a retired florist, moved into the Palisades Bowl Mobile Estates in the early aughts, paying $340,000 for a small mobile home, “the kind your grandma would own,” just a crosswalk away from the beach.

“Somebody told me about this mobile home park on the Pacific Coast Highway that was a little gem and I should look into it,” said Miller, 67. She immediately fell in love with the balance of independence and community in the area, where she could tend the plants in her fenced-in yard and join her neighbors for water aerobics in the community pool. “We all respected each other’s privacy but looked out for each other,” she said.

Since the fires, Miller, who is staying with an uncle in Palm Springs, says she spends a lot of each day just staring into space. She thinks about her former neighbors, many of whom have scattered to different parts of the state.

Miller had paid off her home and owed $980 per month in rent for her space, affordable on her fixed income. Palisades Bowl management has paused collecting rent since the fire, but Miller and other residents worry that this could provide a pretext for evicting them in the future, since their leases say that a catastrophe does not provide an excuse for non-payment, Miller said. She said residents also haven’t received a promised refund of the rent they paid at the beginning of January, or heard anything from park owners about their plans.

“We aren’t any better off today than we were the day after the fire,” she said.

The right to rebuild

California law says mobile home park owners who rebuild after a natural disaster must allow tenants to return — but that they can increase rental rates to cover the cost of rebuilding.

As residents continued to sift through the rubble of Palisades Bowl last week, looking for their belongings, co-owner Colby Biggs said park owners were still assessing the damage and planned to ask the Army Corps of Engineers for help with the cleanup by early this week. That help will give the park owners a better sense of the cost to rebuild, said Biggs, who represents a family trust with a 50% stake in the property.

His grandparents bought the 150-unit mobile home park in 2005, and some of the units dated to the 1950s, he said. Mortgage insurance will cover the loss of the clubhouse and office buildings, he said, but not any of the underground infrastructure that makes the park run.

“If we have to go invest $100 million to rebuild the park and we’re not able to recoup that in some fashion, then it’s not likely we will rebuild the park,” he said. “If we can get federal or state funding, it’s a different story.”

“We’re not evicting anybody,” Biggs said. “But if the park’s not rebuilt, then obviously the residents wouldn’t have the right to reoccupy the park.”

A state law known as the Mello Act requires that any affordable housing demolished in the coastal zone be replaced by an equivalent number of affordable units. Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass issued an executive order in the wake of the Palisades and Eaton fires that exempted owners replacing housing destroyed by fire from complying with some permitting requirements under the act. But the exemption applies only to properties where there is no change in the property’s use or density. The order “establishes an accelerated process for homeowners to rebuild what they had before,” said a spokesperson for the mayor, Clara Karger.

L.A. Mayor Karen Bass and Gov. Gavin Newsom tour the downtown business district of Pacific Palisades after the fire.

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Adding to the confusion is uncertainty about whether the Federal Emergency Management Agency will play its traditional role of funding and coordinating recovery from the disaster. President Donald Trump and his billionaire ally Elon Musk have threatened mass firings at multiple federal agencies and froze their funds, in violation of Congress’s Constitutional authority to appropriate money. “FEMA should be terminated!” Trump posted on Truth Social on Tuesday, amid media reports that administration appointees had fired the agency’s chief financial officer and defied a court order by shutting down funding for some disaster-related grants. The president has also suggested he might withhold federal aid unless California changes its voting laws.

Democratic state senators Friday proposed a state-run relief fund that would help families and individuals who were affected by the recent fires but unable to get federal aid. Allen said he and state Sens. Sasha Pérez and Aisha Wahab — Democrats representing Glendale and Fremont, respectively — plan to introduce a separate bill that would temporarily control rents on mobile homes in the fire zone and strengthen mobile home owners’ right to rebuild. The bill does not include any reconstruction funding specifically for mobile home parks.

Will government help?

Legislators could award extra funding to a state program that supports repair and replacement of mobile homes and parks, including those affected by a natural disaster. Lawmakers created the program, known as the Manufactured Housing Opportunity and Revitalization Program, to help residents, non-profit groups and owners fix safety and health problems at aging parks. It gave out $100 million over the past two years, but paused accepting applications in summer 2024. Low- and moderate-income Californians who are disaster victims can qualify for loans to replace their mobile homes through another state program, CalHome.

A coalition of housing nonprofits and community land trusts sent a letter to state lawmakers last month urging them to prioritize affordable housing as Los Angeles rebuilds.

“As we know, there is a growing threat of speculative real estate practices in the wake of climate-fueled disasters,” the letter read. It called on elected officials to use disaster relief funds to rebuild the two mobile home parks and preserve them as permanently affordable housing through a community land trust, a nonprofit that would retain ownership of the land while leasing or selling homes to residents.

While critics might question whether mobile home residents displaced by the fire should be automatically entitled to live on the coast, or whether public money would be better spent housing Californians who have even fewer resources, park residents had a simple answer: It’s our home.

“That’s what we all signed up for and put our life savings into: digs at the ocean,” said Greg Garber, a hardwood flooring contractor who said he paid $150,000 in 1999 for a home he expected to leave to his children. Losing it, he said, was “like losing a loved one.”

Nationwide, nearly 80% of manufactured homes are located in areas at high risk of a wildfire, flood or other climate hazard, a new Urban Institute report finds. More than one-third of California’s manufactured housing stock was built before 1976, the report estimates, meaning those homes are especially dilapidated and likely to be damaged in a disaster.

Some Los Angeles-area mobile home parks have converted to condominiums, said Sears, selling lots individually along with the homes atop them. It priced out those who couldn’t afford the increased cost to buy in, he said.

Palisades Bowl itself almost went that route nearly 20 years ago. Biggs said his grandparents tried to subdivide and sell off the property after a landslide made some of the units uninhabitable. But a majority of residents opposed the move, he said, and the city blocked it. In a related court case, the California Supreme Court ruled that the conversion was subject to the Mello Act, meaning developers must replace any affordable housing that was lost.

Disasters drive inequality

Other California wildfires have wiped out local mobile home parks, one of the few remaining sources of affordable homeownership in the state.

Thirty mobile home parks housed more than 1,400 people in the Sierra foothills town of Paradise before the Camp Fire ravaged it in 2018. Of those, only about five have been rebuilt, said Seana O’Shaughnessy, who co-chairs a housing committee as part of the city’s collaborative rebuilding effort.

“Every single mobile home park was grossly underinsured, so the ability for owners to build back was incredibly difficult,” she said. “There had to be some source of public funding to make it happen.”

The state’s decision not to allow mobile home parks to qualify for disaster relief grants aimed at multifamily housing made it harder for park owners, she said. Many former mobile home residents left the state, she said, and some are still searching for permanent housing years later.

The Palisades Fire devastated the Palisades Bowl Mobile Home Park, where rebuilding is a complex question.

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In Santa Rosa, the non-profit developer Burbank Housing replaced a 162-unit mobile home park with affordable apartments after the Tubbs Fire incinerated it, displacing the mostly elderly residents. Staff for the developer met with residents after the tragedy, helping them access recovery funds and surveying them about their needs, said Burbank Housing Chief Executive Larry Florin. The 13-acre park was rezoned and divided into two parcels: one with market-rate apartments, and another with units guaranteed to be affordable for 55 years, paid for in part by federal low-income housing tax credits set aside for disaster relief. Rents are based on income and range from about $700 to $1,500 per month, slightly higher than the rates residents were paying at the park, Florin said.

Thirty-two of the park’s original residents have moved into the new apartments, among other tenants.

“When neighborhoods are destroyed, they lose the social network that’s binding them together because people spread to all ends of the earth,” Florin said. “We very deliberately have tried to rebuild not just the homes but the community.”

While disasters can occasionally lead to innovative projects like the Santa Rosa development, they often increase inequality, studies have found.

As Los Angeles begins to recover from the Palisades and Eaton fires, the city council is weighing whether to protect tenants from eviction. California Attorney General Rob Bonta has filed charges against real estate agents accused of violating the state’s ban on rental price gouging, and researchers are documenting the disproportionate effect of the Eaton Fire on Altadena’s Black residents.

Miller, the Palisades Bowl homeowner, hopes her neighborhood isn’t forgotten. She wants to go back, and says many of her former neighbors do too. The park was their only option to afford living in Pacific Palisades, she said.

“We’re hoping they return it to its former glory,” she said, “but better.”

This story was originally published by CalMatters.

Democrat Xavier Becerra will advance to the November general election in the race for California governor, capping a sudden and dramatic ascent for a career politician who is running on his experience and his willingness to take on President Donald Trump.

Becerra, the former state attorney general, has secured nearly 27% of the vote in the June 2 primary, with about two-thirds of votes counted as of Friday afternoon. If elected in November, he would be the first Latino to serve as California governor in more than a century.

It’s still unclear who his opponent will be: Returns so far show Republican Steve Hilton most likely to advance with more than 26% of votes counted, though the trailing Democrat Tom Steyer has not conceded and could make up ground in the nearly three million votes that remain to be counted.

California uses a top-two primary system; the two candidates with the most votes advance to the November ballot regardless of party.

The November race could differ dramatically depending on the opponent. If it’s Hilton, Becerra would be heavily favored to win: Democrats in California outnumber Republicans nearly two-to-one, and Hilton is endorsed by Trump, whom Californians disapprove of in high numbers.

If it’s Steyer, California can expect an all-out slugfest between opposing wings of the Democratic Party, supercharged by the hundreds of millions of dollars Steyer has spent from his personal fortune on the primary alone.

While the hedge fund manager-turned-Democratic donor and climate activist has run a progressive campaign and garnered the support of Bernie Sanders surrogates, Becerra is favored by more of the Democratic establishment.

Becerra, who had lingered in the single-digits in polling, surged in popularity following the political implosion of former frontrunner Eric Swalwell, with establishment Democrats favoring the former Health and Human Services secretary and former state attorney general over former Rep. Katie Porter and the outsider Steyer.

It was a surprising and swift ascent for the mild-mannered career politician who was previously part of a crop of lower-polling Democratic candidates that party chair Rusty Hicks was publicly pressuring to drop out of the race.

“Guess what? The underdog stayed in the fight,” Becerra said at an election night rally Tuesday in Los Angeles, calling his near-victory “the everyday miracle of living in a state that regularly makes the improbable seem inevitable.”

The decision comes at a particularly consequential time for California. Residents face a crushing cost of living, nation-topping gas prices made worse by the war in Iran, wildfire risks that have driven insurance companies out of state, an unstable state budget, impending federal cuts to the state’s expansive health system and an economy dampened by immigration enforcement.

This article was originally published on CalMatters and was republished under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives license.

Nearly three months ago, the Los Angeles City Council voted to fund homelessness prevention programs to the tune of $177 million. Despite approval by Mayor Karen Bass, the funding still has not been cleared by City Attorney Hydee Feldstein Soto.

Now, city leaders want answers about the delay.

A motion introduced earlier this week by Councilmember Ysabel Jurado said the “contracts remain unexecuted without explanation.” The motion goes on to say the setback has caused “$17 million ... in emergency rental assistance to sit unused” and has put “services for those at risk of homelessness in jeopardy.”

If passed by the council’s Housing and Homelessness Committee and later approved by the full council, Jurado’s motion would call on Feldstein Soto to report back to the council within 30 days about the reasons for the delay.

Representatives with the City Attorney’s Office did not respond to LAist’s repeated requests for comment.

Tenant aid providers said they’ve entered their third month without funding from the city. They said without an executed contract, legal aid organizations may soon have to lay off staff and stop taking eviction cases.

“The people who are providing the services are all in nonprofit organizations that don't have a great deal of extra funding to cover this contract that isn't being paid,” said Barbara Schultz, housing director at the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles.

How we got here

Feldstein Soto has held up the tenant aid funding since April 2025, when she refused to sign a previously approved five-year funding deal with the Legal Aid Foundation. At the time, she argued the contract should have gone through a competitive bidding process.

City officials responded by putting out a request for proposals. They ultimately selected the Legal Aid Foundation, along with several other tenant rights groups, to receive funding set aside for rent relief, tenant education, enforcement of the city’s tenant anti-harassment ordinance and programs that provide free attorneys to tenants facing eviction.

Much of the funding for these homelessness prevention programs comes from the city’s Measure ULA, also known as the L.A. “Mansion Tax.” That tax is now facing potential elimination from a statewide November ballot measure from the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association.

The city attorney’s tenant rights track record 

Feldstein Soto has frequently clashed with tenant rights advocates.

She previously attempted to remove the word “right” from the city’s “Right To Counsel” ordinance, which supplies free eviction defense attorneys to qualified tenants.

Feldstein Soto also has faced criticism for not prosecuting more landlords accused of rent gouging in the wake of the 2025 Palisades and Eaton fires.

She also was accused of failing to defend the rights of tenants at the high-rise apartment complex Barrington Plaza, who went to court to successfully fight wrongful evictions from landlord company Douglas Emmett, which donated to a campaign opposing Feldstein Soto’s opponent in the 2022 election.

Feldstein Soto launched an audit of the Legal Aid Foundation last year. So far, no findings have been released.

Schultz said the organization has provided all the financial and administrative documentation requested by the L.A. Housing Department related to the contracts.

Why it matters for renters

The Legal Aid Foundation is the lead contractor for the city’s eviction defense funding, but the money is shared with other legal aid organizations as well.

Elena Popp, who leads the Eviction Defense Network, said her small team of lawyers can’t continue to take on tenant cases until funding is approved.

“We're contemplating layoffs effective June 15 unless we can raise the part of the money that is our budget from the city,” Popp said. “If we lay people off, then tenants won't be served.”

Anna Urena, a paralegal with the Eviction Defense Network, says her organization would normally do intake for about 300 tenants per month.

“We're not taking on new cases. We're not representing new people right now because we don't know what's going to happen,” she said. “We really cannot leave our tenants behind.”

What’s next?

Jurado’s motion has not yet been scheduled for a vote in the council’s Housing and Homelessness Committee.

Based on her third-place showing so far in the June primary election results, it appears Feldstein Soto will not be L.A.’s city attorney much longer. Popp said Feldstein Soto’s lame duck status doesn’t bode well for the contract getting signed soon.

“She now has no incentive to sign, and pressure on her will not get her to sign,” Popp said. “If that happens and the City Council doesn't take charge of this, maybe hire outside counsel to get the approval, then we won't see any money until the new city attorney comes in.”

Millions of people are about to pack stadiums across the U.S., Canada and Mexico for the World Cup, starting June 11.

Public health officials have been working to ensure the health and safety of the masses of fans they're expecting at the 104 matches across 16 cities through mid-July.

In the U.S., World Cup preparations are coming in a time of a diminished federal health presence and funding. It's upped the workload for host city health departments, as they're also strapped for federal funding.

Nevertheless, World Cup host city health officials say they're prepared for the many challenges that come with large-scale celebrations and gatherings.

"We've been focusing on expecting the expected" — issues related to weather, health and human behavior, says Dr. Marcus Plescia, district health director for Fulton County, Georgia, which includes Atlanta.

Planning for the event is ongoing, says Dr. Philip Huang, director of Dallas County Health and Human Services in Texas. "To be able to begin preparations a year out is a luxury for us, compared to a lot of the situations that we deal with," he says.

"We call Atlanta 'Hotlanta' for a reason"

For public health departments, the World Cup is a big deal –- but they're well prepared for the biggest challenges.

Summer heat, for instance. "We call Atlanta 'Hotlanta' for a reason," says Georgia's Dr. Plescia, "It's going to be hot and humid here -– so heat-related injuries are going to be an issue."

Atlanta is hosting eight World Cup matches and the team from Uzbekistan. At downtown Centennial Olympic Park, a month-long fan festival is expected to draw some 15,000 people a day. Cooling stations will offer air-conditioning and hydration.

Then there's feeding the crowds. "The biggest lift for us and for all health departments is that our environmental health workers have to inspect all of the food vendors — and there will be a whole lot of food vendors," Plescia says.

Inspectors will check every day to ensure the facilities are in working order and the food is safe to eat. "We want to make sure that people feel confident that they can go out to eat and have a good time –- and they don't have to worry about getting food poisoning," Plescia says.

When lots of people gather, germs tend to spread. "We're worried about sexually transmitted infections because there's going to be a lot of people here and it's going to be a festive atmosphere," Plescia says. "And then we're worried about things maybe we wouldn't have been worried about as much before, particularly measles." Measles is highly contagious among those who haven't been vaccinated, and there have been 30 U.S. outbreaks this year.

Dallas is hosting nine World Cup matches — the most of any city. The health department is stepping up disease surveillance in wastewater, expanding sites and covering more area, says Dr. Huang, the county health authority. Beyond looking for typical threats like influenza and COVID, they're also testing for "whatever might appear" through genomic sequencing, he says.

They're also broadening mosquito surveillance –- setting insect traps and testing for pathogens they can spread. "We always test for West Nile virus," Huang says, "But we're also increasing our testing for dengue, chikungunya and Zika because of all the [incoming] international travel."

Medical staff are also looking out for symptoms of Ebola or hantavirus, due to outbreaks.

Keeping track of which diseases are circulating means they'll be able to alert hospitals and the public quickly if they see a spike. "It's a lot of things we normally do but certainly more enhanced," Huang says.

They're also preparing health tips for the public in different languages: Wear a hat and sunscreen and hydrate when it's hot out. Bug spray and long sleeves help prevent mosquito bites. Stay home if you're sick. "It's the same messages [we always share], but it's really concentrated because we've got so many people coming during a hot period of time in Dallas," Huang says.

"Most of our staff are not taking vacations"

The World Cup finals are jointly hosted by New York and New Jersey on July 19.

Officials have been running practice simulations to prepare for outbreaks and mass casualty events. "We plan for the worst case scenario and go through it before it actually happens," says Dr. Alister Martin, New York City's health commissioner.

They've also set up "incident command" to "divert resources from normal stuff so that we can manage any potential emergencies," Martin says, adding that the operation will continue through much of the summer, for other big events planned in New York, including America's 250th anniversary, Pride month and the Puerto Rican Day parade.

In Los Angeles, which is hosting eight games, including the U.S. opening match versus Paraguay, risk-assessment teams will monitor the surroundings for chemical exposures and biological threats.

In L.A., diminished federal assistance means the health department is counting on existing staff to do the extra work. "Most of our staff are not taking vacations during the month of the World Cup because they'll need to work -– we'll be obviously accruing overtime costs," says Barbara Ferrer, the L.A. county health director.

And much of their regular work, like routine food inspections, gets put aside. "I know it would be easier if we weren't in a resource constrained environment," Ferrer says. "But I want to provide assurance that even in a resource constrained environment, we're well prepared."

Ferrer says they've successfully planned and managed other events of national significance, like the 2022 Super Bowl. "This work isn't new to us," she says, adding that staff are making great efforts "to make sure this is a joyous time in L.A. county and [that] we're all safe."

This year's experience will better prepare Los Angeles to host other events, she says — like the 2027 Super Bowl and the 2028 Summer Olympics.

Ferrer hopes these events will help authorities see that public health is key to public safety — and worth investing in.

Less of a federal presence

On the federal level, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which serves as the nation's public health agency, has a muted presence this year.

"Usually, the CDC is a visible lead when we have international events in the United States, particularly across the country, versus just in a single state," says Dr. Debra Houry, former chief medical officer for the CDC who resigned last year.

The current Trump administration has pushed thousands of workers out of the CDC workforce and tampered politically with some of its functions, such as setting vaccine policy and publishing scientific papers. The agency's scientists rarely speak directly with the public anymore; their messages are filtered through politically appointed leadership.

Other governmental groups that would typically be involved, such as the National Security Council's biosecurity group, the Office of Pandemic Preparedness and Response Policy, and the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response, have been disbanded, left vacant or don't have permanent leaders, Houry says.

The diminished federal presence serves as the backdrop for the World Cup.

Emily Hilliard, press secretary for the Department of Health and Human Services which oversees the CDC and ASPR, wrote in an email response to NPR: "HHS and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are actively coordinating with state, local, and global partners to ensure public health and safety during FIFA World Cup 2026 and enhance any measures, as needed."

Localities have found that the federal presence is late in coming, and not as coordinated as it may have been in the past, says Lori Freeman, CEO for the National Association of County and City Health Officials, which represents health departments.

Freeman says the CDC started holding coordination calls and issuing some guidance a few months ago –- long after host cities started their own preparations. She notes: "When it comes to merging public health, emergency response and preparedness, that is an area we worry constantly about because the federal government is the agency that must manage across state jurisdictions between and among states."

Some have stepped up to fill perceived gaps. For instance, Georgetown University has set up a Health Security Operations Center to track infectious diseases and send out daily reports, to inform places expecting an influx of travelers throughout the World Cup.
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If you’re looking for a great place to watch the upcoming World Cup on L.A.'s Westside — particularly if you can’t break the bank for a ticket — there’s O’Brien’s Irish Pub in Santa Monica.

Owner Willy O'Sullivan sat down with Larry Mantle, host of AirTalk, to discuss how the pub has managed to maintain its customer base, while others — like Brennan's and Britannia Pub — have had to close their doors. He says it all comes down to partnerships with local sports fans, trivia nights and maintaining their authentic Irish pub food and brews.

About the owner

A native of Cork City, the second-largest city in Ireland, O'Sullivan arrived stateside in 1987. He opened the pub in 1994, and as interest in soccer has grown, he's built a community around European football matches, especially after subsequent World Cups. Along the road, he's also built a following for New York sports teams.

The ultimate O'Brien's experience

St. Patrick's Day, obviously.

But ... any other day he'd recommend coming in for the Irish breakfast with a coffee in hand or "the best Guinness in Southern California," in his words.

How he ensures quality Guinness

Because Guinness is the pub's signature drink, he's made sure to give it a short beer tap line, meaning it goes from keg to glass quickly. He also makes sure to clean the tap line every two weeks to ensure quality.

Restaurant details

• O’Brien’s has Irish pub classics, including fish & chips, corned beef and cabbage, and a full Irish breakfast.
• It’s best known for hosting the local Manchester United F.C. fan club known as Los Angeles Red Army.
• Its also hosts groups for Leeds United and the New York Giants.

Menu items we tried

• Potato skins (potatoes, cheddar and bacon)
• Banger sandwich (two English sausages, sautéed onions and mixed greens)
• Irish breakfast (two eggs, two Irish sausages, Irish bacon, beans, mushrooms, tomato, black and white pudding)

What should we try next?