Guy Gerber has always favored the road less traveled. Limited Tickets to Guy Geber Halloween TAO Los Angeles available now here This year’s edition saw new guests to the RUMORS lineage including DJ Seinfeld, Danny Tenaglia, DJ Tennis and more in addition to RUMORS mainstays dubfire, Cassy, Delano Smith, Death-Tones and NonCitizens. This past summer, Guy Gerber finished the fifth season of his acclaimed RUMORS residency at its home Destino Ibiza. Since then, the party has become an annual sold-out staple.
Gerber first debuted his acclaimed RUMORS party in Los Angeles three years ago to much fanfare, christening another LA party-space Chinatown’s historic Gin Ling Way. Los Angeles has served as a second home to Guy for a number of years. The upstairs Dragon Bar offers a more secluded but no less dramatic space to enjoy TAO’s acclaimed food and beverage menu. The main dining room comes with a 40 ft sweeping staircase, towering sculptures of the 24-handed Quan Yin and Buddha and numerous tucked away banquettes.
The TAO experience offers dramatic and intimate spaces, perfect for exploring, and an incredible setting for a party. (Don't get me started on the velvet rope and "wait here" theatrics they were doing on a slow Tuesday night for no reason, and the $75 bill minimums they started trying to enforce last year.TAO has become one of LA’s most recognizable and dramatic venue. With so few rooftops available for drinking in these parts, Charmaine's enjoyed a bit of special status in the pre-pandemic days, despite being pretty expensive with pretty chilly customer service. We wish them luck.Īnd if Rise Over Run can give nearby Charmaine's a run for its money, that's probably a good thing. The scene on this part of Market Street remains a bit of a circus of drug-dealing and erratic behavior, and this developer - along with the IKEA mall team across the street, and the long-suffering Proper hotel - have been banking on a tipping point arriving at some point so tourists feel more welcome. In Dark Bar, there will be a mix of "unique takes on quintessential cocktails embellished by unexpected bar snacks," the PR team says.Īnd for coffee, they're importing the very Instagrammy Alfred from Los Angeles, which in addition to serving photogenic matcha lattes and boba teas, also serves good-looking breakfast burritos (with tots inside), and a plant-based breakfast sandwich with Impossible sausage. We do know that cocktail programs in the restaurants and Dark Bar will be created by Danny Louie, a vet of Mister Jiu's, Chino, and The Alembic. The release was vague on the actual concepts for the rooftop and ground-floor restaurants, so we'll see! Things could still be very much in development as the hotel prepares to open, ostensibly, by September 30. The bar, we're told via press release, is going to be a "classic hotel lobby bar called Dark Bar." That will be joined by a restaurant called Tenderheart with "thoughtful, sophisticated flavors," and the rooftop lounge called, curiously, Rise Over Run - ugh is that a math reference? Both will be led by executive chef Joe Hou, a former pastry chef who has worked in the kitchens of New York's Per Se and the NoMad, as well as Palo Alto’s Bird Dog and SF's Le Fantastique - both kitchens headed by chef Robbie Wilson. Now, as Eater reports, we have word on what's happening with the ground-floor and rooftop restaurants, the hotel bar, as well as a coffeeshop that sounds about as trendy as the hotel group. As Eric Tao, managing partner and co-founder of the developer 元7, told the SF Business Times last year, "It doesn’t make sense to open a hotel this year," adding that they were waiting for the return of tourism and conventions. The delayed LINE hotel, from the management group that also runs the NoMad properties in New York, London, and elsewhere, was slated to open last year, and then delayed until this past spring, and now until early fall. There's finally some movement over at The LINE hotel, in the condo-hotel building known also as Serif, and 950-974 Market Street - and we have some vague details about the rooftop bar/restaurant going in about a block away from Charmaine's.