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I worked 2 blocks from there, but it was always too damn loud and crowded to have lunch there. I'll have to drop in on a lazy weekend.
The food at perch is not that great eat at chaya and go to perch after for drinks....
Mo-Chica is a great Peruvian spot just a few blocks from the Bonaventure. The Library Bar is cool if you can find a place to sit. If you're into really divey places, visit Grand Central Market and get an al pastor burrito from either Ana Maria's or Taco's Tumbras a Tomas.
Thanks. I do most of my celebrity spotting on this board.
Little Tokyo is a cool neighborhood. I used too stay in Chinatown. And Wurstkuche is a great restaurant. One of my faves. There's also one in Venice for any Westsiders out there.
He would've heard it again if I was there.
correct. "sausage kitchen"cstu said:
Unless you get to also be in the audience for the talk shows, the Paramount (didn't even know they did tours until 3 weeks ago) is pathetic and WB isn't much better. In both you'll get to see the outside of the stages that were used, and plod through the backlot and see the New York street, courthouse steps, and some suburban blocks of houses but neither of them really show much of what's going on. Universal is much bigger and has some "original programming" for the tours like the shark coming out of the water or the Mexican Village flooding.* Granted, these observations are from working on the lots, not taking the tours. I'd rank them Universal>WB>>>Paramount. Plus if you like to be bilked out of more money than the tour costs, Universal has City Walk right next door.
Thanks for the input. You have me re-thinking Universal. Most of the travel sites (Frommers, Fodors, Tripadvisor) all seem to have Paramount as the best reviewed. Looking at the pictures from tripadvisor and your comments, I'm getting the feeling that it is nothing special.
This wasn't my experience. I haven't done the Paramount tour but did the Warner Brothers tour a little over a year ago. I though it was great. We did see all the exteriors that mad sweeney mentioned but we also went into the sound stage for Big Bang Theory and Mike and Molly, saw the car museum with a few dozen different cars used in TV and Movies, went into the prop house where they had rebuilt the set for the Friends coffee shop. The tour guide also gave a unique tour. It wasn't completely scripted. He interacted with the group (about 12 people) found out their interests and pointed stuff out related to those interests.
My pov is from working at the lots so I'm guessing about which is better. I hadn't been on Paramount for a couple of years and after a lot of time at Universal and WB, I thought Paramount seemed like a dump compared to the other two when I was there a few weeks ago. Not sure how they got 3-4 hours out of WB, did they also take you to the "Ranch", which is a small backlot and stages a few blocks away from the main campus. The Griswold house is among them.
Not sure that the quality of the tour equates to the quality of the lot for filming purposes. The WB tour was 2.5 hours the 3-4 hours I stated was for the whole time t would take for them to do it including parking, shopping, waiting for the tour to start etc.
In 15 years I've been on that lot for exactly 1 day on a Janet Jackson video.
