Guidebook for Venice

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Guidebook for Venice

Essentials

Quit a scene - wine bar, pizza, great juices
1701 locals recommend
Whole Foods Market
225 Lincoln Blvd
1701 locals recommend
Quit a scene - wine bar, pizza, great juices
Newly remodeled store - Starbucks inside. Sells nice sandwiches and Sandwich fixing if you want to make your own.
583 locals recommend
Ralphs
910 Lincoln Blvd
583 locals recommend
Newly remodeled store - Starbucks inside. Sells nice sandwiches and Sandwich fixing if you want to make your own.
Alcohol at good prices.
20 locals recommend
BevMo!
3212 Wilshire Blvd
20 locals recommend
Alcohol at good prices.
Love TJs!
881 locals recommend
Trader Joe's
6150 Slauson Ave
881 locals recommend
Love TJs!
Love TJs
881 locals recommend
Trader Joe's
6150 Slauson Ave
881 locals recommend
Love TJs
76 locals recommend
Bob's Market
1650 Ocean Park Blvd
76 locals recommend

Shopping

Bargains and easy walking distance (unless you buy too much)
82 locals recommend
Ross Dress for Less
1400 Lincoln Blvd
82 locals recommend
Bargains and easy walking distance (unless you buy too much)
Great make up, etc.
9 locals recommend
Bloomingdale's
10250 Santa Monica Boulevard
9 locals recommend
Great make up, etc.

Food Scene

I have heard great things - hip gastropub with amazing sausages and fries.
243 locals recommend
Wurstküche Restaurant Venice Beach
625 Lincoln Blvd
243 locals recommend
I have heard great things - hip gastropub with amazing sausages and fries.
Lots of vegan choices - and in the heart of the resurging Rose Ave
488 locals recommend
Cafe Gratitude
512 Rose Ave
488 locals recommend
Lots of vegan choices - and in the heart of the resurging Rose Ave
Lots of really good and healthy choices. Great chocolate chip cookies. Check the hours - later is take out only.
41 locals recommend
Sauce on Ocean
1541 Ocean Avenue
41 locals recommend
Lots of really good and healthy choices. Great chocolate chip cookies. Check the hours - later is take out only.
Super delicious sandwiches
140 locals recommend
Mendocino Farms
4724 Admiralty Way
140 locals recommend
Super delicious sandwiches
Great place after waling the pier (or before!) Bicycle there!
220 locals recommend
The Cow's End Cafe
34 Washington Blvd
220 locals recommend
Great place after waling the pier (or before!) Bicycle there!
Great local coffee.
300 locals recommend
Groundwork Coffee Co.
671 Rose Ave
300 locals recommend
Great local coffee.
Coffee and everything else is great. DON'T try the sticky bun! It is addictive.
256 locals recommend
Urth Caffe Santa Monica
2327 Main St
256 locals recommend
Coffee and everything else is great. DON'T try the sticky bun! It is addictive.
Pizza. Super good and good wine - and you can taste the wine before you buy. Good beer too. It is small and loud if you go later.
45 locals recommend
South End
2805 Abbot Kinney Blvd
45 locals recommend
Pizza. Super good and good wine - and you can taste the wine before you buy. Good beer too. It is small and loud if you go later.
Best coffee chain IMHO
79 locals recommend
Peet's Coffee
1401 Montana Ave
79 locals recommend
Best coffee chain IMHO
Great Italian Food
71 locals recommend
La Vecchia Cucina
2654 Main St
71 locals recommend
Great Italian Food
You have to drive, but if you are going to mid-city for the museums, this fantastic restaurant is not far.
17 locals recommend
A Food Affair
1515 S Robertson Blvd
17 locals recommend
You have to drive, but if you are going to mid-city for the museums, this fantastic restaurant is not far.
Italian Food
25 locals recommend
Locanda Positano
4059 Lincoln Blvd
25 locals recommend
Italian Food
Really Good Sushi - next to a Trader Joe's in Culver City.
16 locals recommend
K-ZO
9240 Culver Blvd
16 locals recommend
Really Good Sushi - next to a Trader Joe's in Culver City.
Coffee experience!
394 locals recommend
Intelligentsia Coffee Venice Coffeebar
1331 Abbot Kinney Blvd
394 locals recommend
Coffee experience!
Great restaurant and bar. If you buy wine downstairs (keep the receipt) you get a discounted corkage
10 locals recommend
Upstairs 2
2311 Cotner Ave
10 locals recommend
Great restaurant and bar. If you buy wine downstairs (keep the receipt) you get a discounted corkage
Great dive bar. Get the burger!
318 locals recommend
Hinano Cafe
15 Washington Blvd
318 locals recommend
Great dive bar. Get the burger!
Great beer, at the Beach. Need I say more?
321 locals recommend
The Commons Ale House
129 Broadway
321 locals recommend
Great beer, at the Beach. Need I say more?
Located inside the beautiful Fairmont Miramar Hotel & Bungalows. Great food - fantastic cheese plates, happy hour most nights from 5 - 6 PM with 1/2 off almost everything!
37 locals recommend
FIG
101 Wilshire Blvd
37 locals recommend
Located inside the beautiful Fairmont Miramar Hotel & Bungalows. Great food - fantastic cheese plates, happy hour most nights from 5 - 6 PM with 1/2 off almost everything!
Great place for breakfast and to watch the world go by.
86 locals recommend
Fig Tree
431 Ocean Front Walk
86 locals recommend
Great place for breakfast and to watch the world go by.
Really good!
17 locals recommend
Uplifters Kitchen
2819 Ocean Park Blvd
17 locals recommend
Really good!
Super Cool
40 locals recommend
Eggslut
1611 Pacific Ave
40 locals recommend
Super Cool
Great Italian food with great service. Highly recommended. There’s a second location on Lincoln in Santa Monica. Both excellent.
Piccolo Abbot Kinney
Great Italian food with great service. Highly recommended. There’s a second location on Lincoln in Santa Monica. Both excellent.

Everything Else

Healthy choices and good food!
14 locals recommend
Locali Healthy Convenience
701 Lincoln Blvd
14 locals recommend
Healthy choices and good food!
THE FLIGHTS!!! I absolutely love their juice flight.
6 locals recommend
Juice Served Here - Venice
609 Lincoln Boulevard
6 locals recommend
THE FLIGHTS!!! I absolutely love their juice flight.
Award wining local theatre.
7 locals recommend
Pacific Resident Theater
703 Venice Blvd.
7 locals recommend
Award wining local theatre.
Fun walk!
947 locals recommend
Venice Canals
947 locals recommend
Fun walk!
Great views from the bar on the roof. Expensive, but be there for sunset
248 locals recommend
Hotel Erwin
1697 Pacific Ave
248 locals recommend
Great views from the bar on the roof. Expensive, but be there for sunset
Right next to MOCA and great Japanese food.
75 locals recommend
Japanese American National Museum
100 N Central Ave
75 locals recommend
Right next to MOCA and great Japanese food.

Arts & Culture

Great Art
3162 locals recommend
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
5905 Wilshire Blvd
3162 locals recommend
Great Art
Free Museum - but you pay for parking. But beautiful!
883 locals recommend
The Getty Villa
17985 Pacific Coast Hwy
883 locals recommend
Free Museum - but you pay for parking. But beautiful!
Getty Museum is free - parking $15 last I knew.
2309 locals recommend
The Getty
1200 Getty Center Dr
2309 locals recommend
Getty Museum is free - parking $15 last I knew.
Great entertainment!
34 locals recommend
Largo at the Coronet
366 N La Cienega Blvd
34 locals recommend
Great entertainment!
Great bar with live jazz after 7:30 PM most nights - and happy hour 3 -7 PM
211 locals recommend
The Culver Hotel
9400 Culver Blvd
211 locals recommend
Great bar with live jazz after 7:30 PM most nights - and happy hour 3 -7 PM
Great museum in Japan Town. Lots of good food around for small $.
401 locals recommend
The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA
152 N Central Ave
401 locals recommend
Great museum in Japan Town. Lots of good food around for small $.
Gorgeous Frank Gehry designed building and fun events too! Home to LA Philharmonic
1063 locals recommend
Walt Disney Concert Hall
111 S Grand Ave
1063 locals recommend
Gorgeous Frank Gehry designed building and fun events too! Home to LA Philharmonic
Brand new museum. Free - need to reserve ahead of time.
1555 locals recommend
The Broad
221 S Grand Ave
1555 locals recommend
Brand new museum. Free - need to reserve ahead of time.

Drinks & Nightlife

Huge bar - some seats looking at the Ocean, and Santa Monica Pier. Others in a living room style - facing the piano - where there is often entertainment.
76 locals recommend
Hotel Casa del Mar
1910 Ocean Way
76 locals recommend
Huge bar - some seats looking at the Ocean, and Santa Monica Pier. Others in a living room style - facing the piano - where there is often entertainment.
A must visit for a summer visitor if there are concerts.
1407 locals recommend
Hollywood Bowl
2301 Hollywood Bowl Rd
1407 locals recommend
A must visit for a summer visitor if there are concerts.

Sightseeing

Ferris Wheel and Merry Go Round are my favs!
2744 locals recommend
Santa Monica Pier
200 Santa Monica Pier
2744 locals recommend
Ferris Wheel and Merry Go Round are my favs!
Larchmont is like a little old fashioned town inside of the city. It’s so cute, very walkable and not very far. Plus close to Hancock Park, which has beautiful homes to look at
179 locals recommend
Larchmont Village
179 locals recommend
Larchmont is like a little old fashioned town inside of the city. It’s so cute, very walkable and not very far. Plus close to Hancock Park, which has beautiful homes to look at