Hungry, late, in Santa Monica

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After Wednesday’s Bob Dylan concert at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, I’d planned to try out the late-night menu at Anisette a few blocks away. Well, getting out of the parking garage turned out to be something of a challenge with few cars moving for up to a half hour. My friends had more luck getting out and called from Anisette to say they were no longer serving a late-night menu on weeknights. Who knew? And you’d think the owners would have given it more than a few weeks tryout. It’s as bad as the networks pulling a show after the second week.

Anyway, my Bob Dylan-loving pals called a few minutes later to say they were headed to Voda on Second Street, only to find once they got there that they were no longer serving food at that hour, only drinks.
In the end, we couldn’t think of anyplace nearby to try and so headed to our respective homes. “I’m afraid Santa Monica isn’t London or New York,” someone said. Point taken.

On the way home my husband and I kept trying to come up with something other than Mozza for a late-night snack but couldn’t think of a thing other than the vegan hangout Brite Spot on Sunset Boulevard in Eagle Rock.

We had some warmed-up leftovers and went to bed.

—S. Irene Virbila