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Our personal picks for food:
Hal's Bar & Grill
1349 Abbot Kinney Boulevard
Phone: (310) 396-3105
Airy and spacious neighborhood restaurant with great art on the walls by prominent locals as well as jazz on Sundays. Highly recommended!
26 Beach Cafe
3100 Washington Blvd Venice
Phone: (310) 823-75261
Located at the foot of the Venice Beach Pier, 26 Beach Cafe offers a varied California-cuisine menu that features a large selection of salads, pastas, seafood and chicken dishes with an int'l flair.
Abbot's Habit
1401 Abbot Kinney Boulevard
Phone: (310) 399-1171
Coffee Shop with pastries for breakfast. Sandwiches and wraps for the lunch menu. The Abbot's Habit Pizza is next door.
Axe
1009 Abbot Kinney Boulevard
Phone: (310) 664-9787
Axe serves local organic agricul-ture. A breezy space in which to enjoy unusually fresh fare.
Baja Cantina
311 Washington Blvd
Phone: 310.821.2252
Old time classic Mexican food and Margaritas just a couple of blocks inland from the Venice Pier. Fresh tortillas made on the premises. A great bar scene on the patio.
Canal Club
2025 Pacific Avenue
Phone: (310) 823-38789
This eclectic neighborhood restaurant was named the Canal Club due to the clubby feeling of the Venice neighborhood and that it is situated a block away from the famous Venice canals.
Capri
1616 Abbot Kinney Blvd.
Phone: (310) 392-87779
Stark white walls hung with lush paintings, twinkling tea lights and intimate candlelit tables make Capri a prime date destination. This minimalism contrasts with the colorful northern Italian menu.
Chaya Venice
110 Navy Street, Venice
Phone: (310) 396-1179
Chaya Venice has become the premier gathering spot for local artists, musicians, and movie industry moguls. They call their fare La Nouvelle Cuisine Franco-Japanese and it's truly wonderful.
C&O Trattoria
31 Washington Blvd.
310.823.9491
Extemely popular with the locals, you will wait for a table but it's worth it. It might be so popular because when they bring a jug of wine to the table they trust you to keep track of what you drink. Sort of a Italian Coccina atmosphere with Pasta, seafood and steaks in huge portions, and really garlicy rolls. Takeout and delivery also. Block inland from the Venice Pier.
Hama Sushi
213 Windward Ave
Phone: 310.396.8783
This is the place for sushi and sashimi. Reservations suggested as it can get crowded. Has been in business for about 20 years in the same location.
The Rose Cafe and Market
220 Rose Ave.
Phone (310) 399-0711
Quintessentially Venice for 20 years, a bohemian coffeehouse, a self-service café, a bakery and a charming lunch spot.
Stroh's Gourmet
1239 Abbot Kinney Blvd
Phone: (310) 450-5119
Packed with beachgoers, dog walkers and locals, this deli is pure Southern California in terms of clientele. Inside, however, one may feel transported to Europe, with shelves full of international treats and deli cases stacked with unusual cured meats, pates and cheeses.
Tortilla Grill
1357 Abbot Kinney
Phone: (310) 581-9953
Classic Mexican California style.
Call 310-295-9595
7 days a week
ABOUT VENICE BEACH CALIFORNIA
Venice Beach in West Los Angeles is a three mile stretch of yellow sand and palm trees. Its developer, Albert Kinney, hoping to create an American version of it's Italian namesake, called the beach area Venice.
Along Ocean Front Walk, enjoy many different sights, sounds, shops, and foods. Roller blade, skate, bicycle, or walk down the boardwalk. Venice Beach is situated between Long Beach and Santa Monica on the Santa Monica Bay. Los Angeles and Hollywood are not far away
Places of Interests
Venice Canals
The Venice Canals are a pastoral residential retreat. Six interwoven water canals flow through this charming neighborhood with walking paths beside the canals. Based on the canals of Venice, Italy, Abbott Kinney's "Venice of America" was completed in 1905. Landscaped walkways and diverse architecture make this walk an enchanting visual experience. Fourteen bridges and well-maintained walkways allow flexibility to walk around all six canals for any distance, direction, or length of time. Canoes, paddle boats, and ducks frequent the waterways.
Venice Beach
Venice Beach is a unique wedge of Los Angeles between Santa Monica and Marina del Rey Harbor. The famous Venice Beach Boardwalk is on Ocean Front Walk, an asphalt walkway that runs parallel to the back end of the wide, sandy beach. It extends south from Navy Street to the Venice Pier at the foot of Washington Boulevard. The 1.5-mile promenade, built in 1905, is lined with beachfront businesses, cafes, hawkers, vendors, body-builders, musicians, comedians, artists, jugglers, fortune-tellers, dancers, spectators, and a vast array of other unique characters. The calm of the ocean is only steps away from the endless parade of people.
Marina del Rey
Built around the largest manmade small-boat harbor in the world, Marina del Rey California is home to over 6,000 pleasure boats and yachts. Located adjacent to Venice Beach, Marina del Rey is Los Angeles County's "Gateway to the Pacific" and provides Los Angeles with an easily accessible port for amateur and professional sailors alike. Marina del Rey boasts its own Fisherman's Village, world-class shopping, gourmet restaurants, luxury accommodations, countless boating & fishing opportunities and a reputation as one of the fastest growing areas in Los Angeles county.
Santa Monica Pier
Built in 1908 for passenger and cargo ships, the Santa Monica Pier is now home to seafood restaurants and snack shacks. A small amusement area hearkens back to the granddaddy pier amusement park in California, Pacific Ocean Park; this updated version has a solar-powered Ferris wheel, a mild-mannered roller coaster, and 10 other rides, plus a high-tech arcade shoot-out. This is the last of the great pleasure piers, offering rides, romance, and perfect panoramic views of the bay and mountains.
The pier is about a mile up Ocean Front Walk from Venice; it's a great round-trip stroll.
Shopping
Ocean Front Walk
You haven't seen it all until you've seen Venice! There is a sandy three-mile beach here, but that is not what attracts visitors. You go to Venice to shop and gawk. During the summer season and on weekends, there is street entertainment at every intersection along Ocean Front Walk. Street performers include instrumental musicians, singers, jugglers, acrobats, mimes, comics, magicians, prophets, fortune tellers, and other assorted entertainers. The Boardwalk is a virtual sidewalk circus, a walk 'n' rolling skin show. There are lots of funky shops, too, if you want to eat out of the ordinary or buy an unusual souvenir or T-shirt.
Abbot Kinney Boulevard
Abbot Kinney (the man) may be known for founding Venice, but Venice is now known for being home to Abbot Kinney (the boulevard). In the century since the neighborhood’s creation, Abbot Kinney Blvd. has become one of the most diverse shopping stretches in Los Angeles. Between Westminster Ave. and Venice Blvd., the street teems with intimate clothing boutiques, quirky shoe shops, unique housewares stores and elegant furniture showrooms. An added bonus: The walkable row of retail is only a few minutes' walk from the beach.
Third Street Promenade - Santa Monica
More than 200 shops offer everything from books and electronics to clothing, jewelry and shoes, as well as housewares and home furnishings. Among the popular clothing brand names are Abercrombie & Fitch, Adidas, Banana Republic, The Gap, J. Crew and Zara. For home, familiar names include Pottery Barn, Restoration Hardware, Sur La Table and Z Gallerie. You’ll also find independent stores, unique boutiques and vintage clothiers. The Promenade has become the place to catch a movie and a bit to eat since there are so many choices.
"The Boardwalk is a Virtual Sidewalk Circus, a Walk 'n' Rolling Skin show."
